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Puffball (Calvatia gigantea) or immature amanita?
    #15008518 - 08/31/11 07:07 PM (12 years, 6 months ago)

I found this mushroom in my yard, growing on fairly compact dry dirt.  Diameter is 4.5 inches, smelled like.. a mushroom, I guess, perhaps with the faintest whiff of that generic "rotting organic matter" scent.  Location is San Diego area.

I see these all over the place and I'd love to know if I've been passing up the chance to have some delicious additions to my cooking.

EDIT: I'm aware that, if this is a puffball, that it's wayyy past it's expiration date.





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Re: Puffball (Calvatia gigantea) or immature amanita? [Re: wanderingmarlin]
    #15008526 - 08/31/11 07:08 PM (12 years, 6 months ago)

neither, dyer's puffball - Pisolithus tinctorius

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Re: Puffball (Calvatia gigantea) or immature amanita? [Re: Fungi01]
    #15008539 - 08/31/11 07:10 PM (12 years, 6 months ago)

What gives it away?


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Re: Puffball (Calvatia gigantea) or immature amanita? [Re: wanderingmarlin]
    #15008626 - 08/31/11 07:21 PM (12 years, 6 months ago)

A young fresh puffball would be white inside and even looking inside.  An Amanita button may be white bit you can see outlines etc, Pisolithus to me looks like the inside is full of little colored seeds.  You will not see that in a Calvatia or an Amanita button.

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