Capt Kirk
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 2:01 pm Post subject: It must be fall! |
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The puffballs are up. This is the biggest one I have in my yard. That is a 12 inch ruler in front of it.
This is a Fall Aster that used to stand 5 ft. tall, until a storm came through and bent and broke it over. But it is still blooming!
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eileen
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That's one BIG puffball CK. My eldest son loves to go hunting for fungi and once found a puffball that measured over 16" - amazing aren't they?
I really like the colour of your fall aster and it's good to know that the weather hasn't spoiled the show it's putting on for you.
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glendann
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That is a hugh Puffball.I think the asters are so pretty.I do love all blue blooms so much.
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kuntrygal
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| Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2007 7:07 pm Post subject: |
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Beautiful Asters and I love the color 
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Droopy
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How did your puffball taste? I found a big one once, cut it into squares, fried it lightly and had it with bread. It was good. Love your asters too.
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Capt Kirk
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:09 am Post subject: |
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I didn't eat it. It had started to dry out already. But I have had them before. My mother used to fry them up when I was a kid.
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I used to love going mushroom picking in my neighbour's fields when I was a kid. Used to bring them home and cook them atop our range, boy did they taste good when you had to scavenge them 
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kuntrygal
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I thought they were poisonous   I have had something in my yard that looked like that, then they turned brown and eventually disenegrated. Are they the same things 
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toni
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 2:34 pm Post subject: |
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I had never heard of puffballs until your post Capt. I have seen all sorts of other fungi growing in my yard over the years but never one of those.
Learn something new every day. 
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Droopy
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| kuntrygal wrote: | | I thought they were poisonous I have had something in my yard that looked like that, then they turned brown and eventually disenegrated. Are they the same things |
Several puffball mushrooms are edible, but only so long as they are pure white all the way through. Once their "babies" (what is it in English?) start developing, they turn brownish inside, and eventually all the way through. That's when children find it so much fun to step on them to watch the grey cloud spread.
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