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  1. Some different small puffballs, all found on decaying hardwood logs. I thinks the ones with minimal bases may be Lycoperdon pyriforme and the ones with larger bases (last 2 pics) maybe L. perlatum, though the guide I'm reading says they are not typically on logs like I found them. All are pure white inside. Do those IDs look accurate? How do you like to prepare these to eat? I'm guessing no one tries to remove the skin, so maybe just slice and fry?
  2. I read up on puffballs a few years ago because i always see so many in my yard. If I remember they need to be pure white inside with no other mushroom looking formation bc that would be a mimic and not edible. I cut another one of these open that i found and it looked like the real thing. I put them in the freezer pending a response. Looked like something had been chewing on a few of them. The one on the right I do not believe is one at all but anyone know what that one is?
  3. Hi all, I'm new to the forum and would like help identifying some mushrooms we found yesterday. Boyfriend and I live in Scotland and have recently got the mushroom hunting bug. Summer has been good and there has been a fair bit of rainfall lately so stuff is popping up. There is a nearby green and leafy light industrial estate (units and workshops) where there seems to be a tonne of shrooms growing. These mushies mostly grow in grass, which I don't think fits the profiles of what I think we found, however there are quite a few trees and mature shrubs nearby and the land was previously a woodland area. A lot of landscaping went on that may have introduced spores too. Looks to us like what we have are mainly the following varieties, although we could be so wrong... Boletus aereus (Queen Bolete) - no blue/green staining on pressing the yellow pores, which have turned brown overnight, caps pale brown on the larger specimens, greasy dark brown caps on younger ones, fleshy smell. Lactarius deliciosus (Saffron Milk Cap) - green staining when bruised, mild fruity smell on a younger one that hadn't turned up at the edges but just a mushroomy smell on mature ones, pitting on the stems. The cut ones have now gone dark red where the brighter orange is. There is very little green staining on the caps which makes me think they are not false saffron milk caps. The caps of the larger/older(?) ones have turned a tan shade. Pestle puffballs - these are fairly big and the skin is quite dusty. While walking our dog in the country park we were also excited to find some porcelain fungus and the beginnings of the growth of Jews Ears (bonus points: there were numerous berries coming to fruition, we'll be back for these too!). We didn't get pics of those but attach pics of the ones in question that we think are edible, both intact and sliced. It would be great if we could get some advice on whether these are worth a try and if there is anything poisonous we could confuse them with. From what I've reasearched they seem ok, but a second, third, fourth... opinion of someone more knowledgeable is always welcome.
  4. I came accross these 2 in my woods, I am in northwest Illinois. I saw them last week, looked them up and I gather they are giant puffballs, the pic shows them next to my size 11 boots. I picked them up yesterday and from all I have read they should be edible. They are all white, when I cut into them if they are still all white I intend to saute them. I am just looking for verification.
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