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Giant puffball (part 1)

langermannia gigantea

Description:

The fruiting body of a puffball mushroom will develop within the period of a few weeks and soon begin to decompose and rot, at which point it is dangerous to eat. Unlike most mushrooms, all the spores of the giant puffball are created inside the fruiting body; large specimens can easily contain several trillion spores. Spores are yellowish, smooth, and 3 to 5 micrometres (0.00012 to 0.00020 in) in size. The dry spores can be used as a coagulant to help stop bleeding

Habitat:

This spotting is part 1 of 2 - One young (maybe still edible) and one beginning matured (already no longer edible) These ones where about 30 cm wide and 20 cm high At the edge of a street in the bushes-

Notes:

Most giant puffballs grow to be 10 to 70 centimetres (3.9 to 28 in) in diameter, although occasionally some can reach diameters up to 150 centimetres (59 in) and weights of 20 kilograms (44 lb). The inside of the mature Giant puffballs is greenish brown, whereas the interior of immature puffballs is white. The large white mushrooms are edible when young. To distinguish giant puffballs from other species, they must be cut open; edible puffballs will have a solid white interior. Some similar mushrooms have the white interior (or yellowish) but also have the silhouette of a cap-type mushroom on the interior when cut open. These are young cap-type mushrooms and may be poisonous.

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AlexKonig
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AlexKonig

Landgraaf, Limburg, Netherlands

Spotted on Sep 30, 2011
Submitted on Oct 1, 2011

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