With all of the rain we have had lately, you may have noticed fungi and mushrooms popping up everywhere. 

While visiting a property under easement today, we found this Giant Puffball, or puffball mushroom.  Common in late summer and fall across yards, meadows, fields, and deciduous forests, puffballs can grow to be upwards of 28 inches in diameter.  We were pretty impressed with this one, roughly eight inches in diameter.  It sort of resembles an ostrich egg, no?  Apparently, puffballs are edible, but only when they are immature.  Rumor has it they taste like tofu or melted cheese.  We are not offering to test that theory, however.

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