Speaking of puffball? I have dozens of little guys coming up on roots of a long-dead hickory.
Marble size. Are they really puffballs?
the kind im thinking of are the ones , when squeezed give a puff of spores out the hole in the top.
That’s only if they’re ‘ripe’…right? At the stage for eating, they’re more like slicing an eggplant that is white in the middle.
Found more on silver maple rotting firewood this morning. Bigger than ones spotted couple days ago.
Right…could be prematurre amanitas
Don’t think so. Since I don’t have a camera available, I’ll Goooogle for some that look like the mushrooms I have growing on decaying hickory and silver maple.
In a moment…
Looks just like the top left sliced open mushroom in the first picture.
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Sounds like puffballs. If they’re pure solid white on the inside they’re probably edible. The main things you have to look out for are:
- Turning dark on the inside (old)
- Some solid color other than white like purple or black (toxic puffball)
- Mini mushroom shape on the inside (Amanita egg)
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Yep, thanks. I’ve harvested the GIANT puffballs before and grilled like sliced eggplants.
Debating on these…(but I already ate one).
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ive only seen the white edible one once here but we have the small light brown ones that we used to play with as kids.
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Breaded and frying! (I’ll have fried green tomatoes another day.)
Plus drying some on a cookie sheet, and sliced some for a future pizza.
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They were not nearly so tasty as morel mushroom, oyster mushrooms, or even the button kind from the grocery store. But, they made a good ‘appetizer’ nonetheless.
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I always cut the edges off chicken of the wood to take away, and leave the attached stem part to grow back now.
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pushballs didn’t taste as good to me as others.
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True. But a country boy can eat if calamities happen.
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Nice. I found some Laetiporus sulphureus on oak at 4-5 foot height on an oak about a month ago. Mine had bright yellow pores, which looks different than yours (seems white).
There is Laetiporus cincinnatus (MushroomExpert.Com) that is said to have white spores and growing at base of trees. Perhaps that’s what you have?
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This has yellow pores underneath, I think it’s on the older side of life however 0 bugs. It was found on a very deteriorated from what I believe is a maple tree lying across a small stream. They aren’t any Oaks in these woods so it did catch me off guard.
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Enjoy! And be sure to eat it quickly or dehydrate. Mine didn’t store well at all. In 1 week, it started to ferment in the refrigerator.
Dryad’s Saddle, first try for me. I found it on a log next to the stream I was measuring today for work.
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Nice haul, how did it taste? Any analogues to other mushrooms?