Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Puff Ball Find of the Decade


Today we found a 1pound 13 ounce puff ball. That's a really big mushroom! ... and I know from experience that it is still solid and good, not to ripe yet.

It's the biggest puff ball I've seen around here in a decade.


I also found some smaller puff balls as well. It all totalled 2 pounds, 5.4 ounces of good mushrooms. (I left the overripe ones where I found them, still rooted. You can tell by giving them a light squeeze if they are already to far gone)



What are these mushrooms?



As best as I can tell they belong to the Lentinellus family. But the gills don't look very serrated. Click on the picture for a larger view.