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Thread: Help to identify fungus?

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    Default Help to identify fungus?

    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?

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

    Try this web site, see if you recognise it.

    Colin

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

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    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

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    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!

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    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.


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    Beware of eating unkown mushrooms, its dangerous

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    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!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Isis View Post
    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.

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