Help to identify fungus?

[skinnydog]

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]

http://www.first-nature.com/fungi/id_guide/index.htm

Try this web site, see if you recognise it.

Colin

[skinnydog]

Thanks. They are giant puffballs. A whole family of them. They look really weird like a gathering of alien eggs!!

[davem]

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]

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]

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.