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skinnydog
25-Aug-08, 21:25
I have some huge, I mean 3 times the size of a football, mushroom looking fungus in a field near me. They are pretty dense in nettles or else I would have taken a photo of them. They are really white fleshed, in fact they look just like oversized mushrooms you would buy in the supermarket to add to your spag bol!!

Not that I am stupid enough to go picking them but does anyone know, without the photos, what type of mushroom are they?

Seabird
25-Aug-08, 21:30
http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/id_guide/index.htm

Try this web site, see if you recognise it.

Colin

skinnydog
25-Aug-08, 21:42
Thanks. They are giant puffballs. A whole family of them. They look really weird like a gathering of alien eggs!!

davem
26-Aug-08, 07:59
We fried some up year before last - 1/4 of a mushroom and way more mushroom than omlette - tasted good tho. A friend had got them from Janetstown.
Dave

the_big_mac
27-Aug-08, 10:58
Sounds like giant puffballs to me.

The River Cottage Guide Book #1 Mushrooms is what I use to identify fungi. Not that I'm any good at it yet!

Isis
01-Sep-08, 21:15
Found a load of these growing in a wooden tub I planted carrots in - any idea what they are and if they are edible? They are small about 4cm high. I couldn't find them in the link above but that will be due to my ignorance - they are no doubt there somewhere.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f362/belabed2/IMG_9876.jpg

golach
02-Sep-08, 14:03
Beware of eating unkown mushrooms, its dangerous :eek:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7593032.stm

skinnydog
02-Sep-08, 15:49
Totally with you on that one. I am not even brave enough to fry up the puffballs. Think I will stick to the button mushrooms from the Co-op!!

Ricco
02-Sep-08, 17:35
Found a load of these growing in a wooden tub I planted carrots in - any idea what they are and if they are edible? They are small about 4cm high. I couldn't find them in the link above but that will be due to my ignorance - they are no doubt there somewhere.

http://i51.photobucket.com/albums/f362/belabed2/IMG_9876.jpg

They look like they might be from the Marasmius group. Inedible because of their size.