GIANT PUFFBALL

Jack Schmidling Productions, Inc.
18016 Church Road ~ Marengo IL 60152
Phone:815 923 0031 ~ Email:arf@mc.net

One of the most incredible growing things to be found in the woods in fall is the Giant Puffball. This is the largest mushroom to be found in North America and this year (2004) was the most prolific in the ten years we have lived out here. There were puffballs everywhere.

Marilyn is holding the largest one we found and the others in the picture were collected from a small area behind our chicken coop.

Although very tasty, some folks have a bad reaction to puffballs and I happen to be one of them. I get stomach cramps every time I try them so I quit eating them long ago.

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So when we called our friend and mushroom lover Carolyn Collins
to come and get them, she sent us this picture.

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PUFFBALL ART

We declared last year the "Year of the Puffball" because we found so many and such very large ones.

Not sure what to call this year but it certainly is the year of the draught and I attribute the lack of rain to the most unusual shapes of the few puffballs we did find.

This one looks just like a white rose.

This montage is of the four we found in the woods where the sheep play.

The one on the top right looks like a conch shell found on a sandy beach.

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