We like to go out and walk in the woods and use mushroom hunting as an excuse. It was a beautiful day today and we stopped in Sudbury and went walking. I saw this about 20 feet from the path- we weren’t sure it wasn’t a soccer ball! It is a giant puff ball- apparently this is a small specimen! We were amazed though. BTW- it is edible, but didn’t taste good according to Ben.
Are those the things you stomp on and you get blasted with a white powdery stuff that makes you wish you hadn’t stepped on it?
Actually this mushroom was completely solid, and when we cut it open had a texture just like the mushrooms you buy in the supermarket. There were 2 brown, older specimens in the area and I think you would have gotten pretty messy if you’d stomped on them!
Mimi