Too big to be mushrooms, more like mushbuildings
The dog on the cover almost looks like AI
Almost definitely puffballs, one of my favorite mushrooms to forage. Though I’ve never had ones this big and I hear they lose a bit of flavor if they’re giant.
If you cut a *(vertical) cross section and it’s a uniform texture with nothing that looks like the structure of a classic capped mushroom that should rule out any lookalikes. Should still be good if the inside is white and not starting to turn brown.
Trusting a stranger on a random web forum is not recommended when it comes to eating mushrooms you find outside. Even if they’re right
Easy to check against another source. This is one of the easiest to ID mushrooms that people eat.
Yeah, but still. I don’t want to normalize casually taking recommendations about eating wild mushrooms online.
I also don’t know if I’d eat mushrooms growing in or around an urban environment. Fungi are known to pull all sorts of contaminants from their substrate into their fruit bodies. Then again, we’re already filled with contaminants from our food and water, so it may only be a drop in the bucket. 🤷♂️
I heard it goes great with the micro plastics!
Puffballs not to be mistaken for earthballs, which are poisonous. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scleroderma_citrinum
That’s just a bunch of rocks and you know it
We used to prepare and eat these back home. They’re a bit like eggplant. My dad would sometimes hop out of the car on his commute home from work and grab these off the side of the road.
look at the heed on tha’ boy! 'slike Sputnik!
So jealous, the only puffballs I can find in my parts are little tiny ones maybe 25mm dia. at the most.
I’m not convinced that isn’t just a tiny water bottle.
Are they puffballs?
Potentially but I have no clue.
I’m reminded of Clarkson’s Farm for some reasons
I’d think that you could build some sort of temperature/light/humidity controlled terrarium, model mushroom growth, and then grow mushrooms at the maximum that they’re biologically able to grow.
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