What is this growing in the ground?

2Fategghead

Any Idea what I have found mowing? I found one growing in the middle of a field and the other under a tree. Is is edible?

pci

You have a puffball

Gator Bait

 
Yup, Puffball is probably right.

Please note in the Wiki article where it states . . .
"While most puffballs are not poisonous, some often look similar to young agarics, especially the deadly Amanitas, such as the Death Cap mushroom. It is for this reason that all puffballs gathered in mushroom hunting should be cut in half lengthwise. Young puffballs in the edible stage have undifferentiated white flesh within; whereas the gills of immature Amanita mushrooms can be seen if they are closely examined." A mistake along these lines would not be fun.

 

Willie Lump Lump

My mushroom expertise is such that I can only safely eat three varieties. Morels, sulfur shelfs and puff balls.
Yours are puff balls and they are safe to eat.

2Fategghead

Thank you Pci

2Fategghead

Thanks Gator. I'll look into it further. I don't know if I'll eat it just yet but, I may if I know what to do with it. It has a good smell. Tim

2Fategghead

Thanks Willie. I'll look into it further. Tim

Kew_el_steve

Insurance paid up??? :woohoo: :evil:

2Fategghead

I'm ready.

BigBadger

They appear to be Puffballs!! Yes, safe to eat but only when the flesh of the puffball is white and firm. Diced and dry sauteed. Add no water.

Hoss

Fungi.AKA a shroom.Boil it and add to grape Kool-Aid.If you drink it and don't die or get high,you shoulda sauteed it!

JLOCKHART29

As an old biker that went to collage I LIKE THAT response Hoss!! :laugh: :pinch: As to what it is all I will say is my botney profeser in collage told us there were only 4 people in the state he would trust to eat a shroom in the wild from and he was NOT one of those 4 people! Humm collage botney prof. and he doesnt trust to eat'em wild....

Cagey

In military survival training I was clearly taught; NEVER EVER EAT MUSHROOMS. They provide no nutritional value in survival situation, and more importantly they can kill you.

Just as the saying goes for "old bold pilots, the the old saying for mushroom hunters also holds true;

"There are old mushroom hunters, and there are bold mushroom hunters. But there a no old, bold mushroom hunters."

So unless you are an expert at mushroom identification, you have no business eating them. You are literally betting your life when it comes to eating wild mushrooms from your yard or the woods. As much as I like this forum, and respect the opinions of those that post here, I would never bet my life on a quick identification of a mushroom just from a photo you posted. I believe your life is more valuable than that. The risks are just to high.

Cagey

2Fategghead

Thanks BigBadger. You from Wisconsin? :huh:

2Fategghead

Hoss I didn't understasnd what you said? Everything IS spinning and I can't get UP. :ohmy: The colors are :blink: wonderful oh oh I thi'm going to throw up I'll talk to you LATER :unsure: :ermm: :woohoo: :ohmy: :laugh: :silly: :cheer:

2Fategghead

Hey Deane, I know where your prof. is coming from. :blink:

2Fategghead

Cagey, I hear you man. We will let these go. I didn't do to good in Biology so better leave the wild stuff alone. :blink: Tim

BigBadger

Not even close. I'm in Victoria, BC. From here too.

2Fategghead

Didn't know and the badger is Wisconsin's State animal...