Giant Puffball

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Published on Oct 19, 2012

The Giant Puffball ("Calvatia gigantea") & it's smaller relatives are good mushrooms for beginners to try as they have no gills and are white inside. Their taste is rather bland so they take on the flavors of whatever they're cooked with. DON"T EAT ANY MUSHROOM UNLESS YOU ARE 100% SURE OF ITS IDENTITY! Thanks to "burtontube" who pointed out to me that I should have said that puffball powder is a COAGULANT not an anticoagulant.I stand corrected.

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Giant puffball mushroom found in Oregon (Calvatia gigantica) This is edible when it is white.

Used for making ink in Tibet. This edible fungus is the size of a beach ball.

Published on Sep 13, 2012

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Published on Sep 6, 2012

This video describes the puffball mushroom and the dangers associated with the poisonous look alikes. We also cover one method for preparing a dish made from the mushrooms. This is video one of an ongoing series on wild plants. Help support us by subscribing! http://www.survivalschool.us

Published on Oct 10, 2013

Giant Mushrooms Larger Than Basketballs Sprout up in Family's Backyard

It was around the time Ed and Amy Delaney were celebrating an anniversary that Mr Delaney found a giant mushroom in their backyard.

So instead of the traditional bouquet of flowers, he decided to surprise his wife with the fungus.

Wife Amy came downstairs and was taken aback by the mushroom the size of two basketballs.

'I walked in and his arms were literally filled with this huge, disgusting white mass,' Mrs Delaney told WILX.

But that's not all. Mrs Delaney found an even bigger mushroom in their yard a few days later. In total, the family spotted four giant mushrooms in their backyard.

An expert at Michigan State University identified the mushrooms as Calvatia Gigantea, commonly known as giant puffball mushrooms.

Jonathan Walton an MSU professor of plant biology, says he's never seen a specimen this big.

Unfortunately for the Delaneys, the mushrooms aren't worth anything and Professor Walton doesn't advise eating them.

Giant puffball mushrooms look like giant rounds of fresh mozzarella, but they grow to about a foot in diameter. Some can grow as large as five feet in diameter and weigh as much as 44 pounds.

When the Delaney's daughter Madison Gomez had two of her friends over Friday, she told them about the mushrooms but they wouldn't believe her.

'I guess they didn't believe me, so I showed them and I guess they had second thoughts,' she said.