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08-23-2008, 09:13 PM
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Can anyone identify these? They are growing in our back yard. At the beginning of the week the white one was the size of a wiffle ball now it is bigger than a basketball. Then it will turn brown like the first picture. When it is white it is heavy feeling but when it is brown it is dried and if you poke at it brown smoke puffs out like the little puff balls we used to find laying around when we were kids. I think it may be some type of mushroom.
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You got it right. They are called Puff Ball mushrooms. |
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08-24-2008, 12:42 PM
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Thank you genmomto5  |
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08-24-2008, 09:55 PM
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08-25-2008, 04:46 AM
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nice photos!!! think i saw hallowell in there
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08-26-2008, 03:18 PM
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08-27-2008, 06:10 AM
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They look to be alien eggs to me!!! LOL!!! Those things are quite kool if you ask me!
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08-27-2008, 06:29 PM
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I thought they were strange also but Gen told me what they were and I did some research on them. She was absolutely right. I also read that if you pick them when they are still firm and white they are supposedly edible. I don't like mushrooms and I am not about to find out that oops...someone was wrong and they are not edible...  |
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08-27-2008, 06:59 PM
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We loved stomping on them when we were kids. I never heard you could eat them.
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08-28-2008, 11:27 AM
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I thought they were strange also but Gen told me what they were and I did some research on them. She was absolutely right. I also read that if you pick them when they are still firm and white they are supposedly edible. I don't like mushrooms and I am not about to find out that oops...someone was wrong and they are not edible... |
i found those mushrooms in the wood (VA), it look like some thing i have seen in the edible mushroom book. we saute them in butter, i told cusin let me take the first bit and we will wait for 15 mins, if it taste good and i am still standing we will eat more. i though in the worst case i will get a free trip to some where no one been there before.
15 mins later we realy enjoy those mushrooms, specialy to white round one, it taste like Abalone yuuuummm.
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08-29-2008, 10:18 AM
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