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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Shrooms! Giant Puffball!

(calvatia gigantea found at wikimedia. commons under creative commons law)

Calvatia Gigantea is a common mushroom that we used to kick as a kid and it was so awesome when it exploded! The Giant Puffball can get anywhere from 10 to 70 centimeters.

 I never understood why mushrooms came up, one morning they are there, and then the next few days you have a huge porous mushroom that looks like a softball on your lawn.

The spores on this mushroom is actually in the millions, i thought it would be in the hundreds, but obviously if the researchers and scientists say it's the trillions then it is. The mushroom has a unique showing up uninvited, this one may actually be helpful to you.
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The giant puffball is edible, you can eat this one. It kind of tastes like home homemade tofu. Be careful not to eat anotoher particular mushroom that looks just like it. It is the amantias , keep safe.

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