How big is yours?

[littlebiglane]

Not being the most observant of types I have always seem to struggle to find enough Cramp Balls / King Alfred's Cakes. I seem to walk straight by them - even when looking on fallen Ash / Beech. Then this caught my eye. A whopper isn't she. c.8cm. Anyone come across larger cakes than this. What's your largest you have found?

 

[Nagual]

Lucky you! The biggest one I have ever found is pictured below.



Nag.

 

[Kepis]

Found this one over the weekend on a fallen Ash, had to be 8-10cm long

 

[JonnyP]

Don't go picking that one yet Mark, it hasn't spored. If you take the purple ones home, they will spore where you are trying to dry them and will make a right mess that is hard to clear up... Only pick the black ones....

 

[Kepis]

it's still there and marked on the old mental map Jon, ready for collection at a later date, there were probably over a hundred or more cramp balls on the ash and they are all purple at the moment, still at least i know where a good source for them will be for the future

 

[bushcraftbob]

I have a few whoppers at home, shall take the ruler to them tonight

 

[littlebiglane]

I have a few whoppers at home, shall take the ruler to them tonight

hehehe

 

[Paganwolf]

This is so sad but deep in my vaults i have these pic's lol found on the up ended root mass of an Ash

mutant Essex cramp balls

 

[In Wood]

I have a rather large one, in my local woods. It is eaisily as big as a tenis ball, but...

it is on a fallen Ash right over the middle of a stream, probably why it is still there, I would take a picture but with nothing to size compare it with you wont be able to see how big mine is! Ooooo misses. :twak: :sulkoff:

 

[littlebiglane]

OMG Paganwolf. YOURS IS MAHOOSIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:wow1: :Wow:

 

[andy_e]

I have cramp-ball envy