Eeeek! When I read the earlier entry I had NO IDEA how big those were. No wonder your forager-neighbor will be able to make something out of it. I was thinking of the things we always called puff balls, which were about the size of a golf ball.
Our campus puffball-like thingies collapse after two days into a malodorous pool of slime, appearing and smelling exactly like the consequences of four too many beers. It drives the admin crazy.
tp: I’ve been reading up on this. The thing to do is take a gun or a baseball bat and shatter the thing into a million billion BILLION spores. It makes this huge blast of smoke when you do it. You’re supposed to wear a mask. People swear by it.
And I read — can’t remember the exact statistic, but I read that each giant puffball has enough spores to cover the entire universe and then some.
[…] the Pratts own a strip of woods next to UD‘s house. From these woods each August UD harvests giant puffball mushrooms. The same woods hold the graciously rotting branches of immense trees that have, over many years, […]
[…] what else scratch and eat away at the mushrooms as they enlarge) – and they get enormous (this is some of last year’s crop) – I’d like to keep taking pictures, to chronicle the […]
August 25th, 2010 at 10:40AM
Eeeek! When I read the earlier entry I had NO IDEA how big those were. No wonder your forager-neighbor will be able to make something out of it. I was thinking of the things we always called puff balls, which were about the size of a golf ball.
August 25th, 2010 at 11:17AM
They’re enormous, Michael. And I have to admit that looking at them on that table for the last couple of days, I’m getting a little nauseous.
August 25th, 2010 at 11:54AM
Our campus puffball-like thingies collapse after two days into a malodorous pool of slime, appearing and smelling exactly like the consequences of four too many beers. It drives the admin crazy.
August 25th, 2010 at 12:04PM
tp: I’ve been reading up on this. The thing to do is take a gun or a baseball bat and shatter the thing into a million billion BILLION spores. It makes this huge blast of smoke when you do it. You’re supposed to wear a mask. People swear by it.
And I read — can’t remember the exact statistic, but I read that each giant puffball has enough spores to cover the entire universe and then some.
June 25th, 2012 at 2:49PM
[…] the Pratts own a strip of woods next to UD‘s house. From these woods each August UD harvests giant puffball mushrooms. The same woods hold the graciously rotting branches of immense trees that have, over many years, […]
October 7th, 2012 at 8:23AM
[…] what else scratch and eat away at the mushrooms as they enlarge) – and they get enormous (this is some of last year’s crop) – I’d like to keep taking pictures, to chronicle the […]