On our walk this morning , we spotted a large white mushroom standing alone on the side of the levee. We took it home to check in our new book- Missouri's Wild Mushrooms (by Maxine Stone).
It looked like a puff ball - a huge, white, smooth ball with a completely white interior that becomes brown with age. Check! They grow single or many in open pastures, woods or lawns. Check! We did what the book suggested and cut it open from top to bottom to confirm that it was pure white inside , like a marshmallow. Check!
We made plans to saute it to have with our leftover fillet steak tonight.
Just to make sure we emailed photos to the mushroom foragers we know.
One response "I found the shape curious for puffballs that I've seen in the books and the few I have had myself. I would hesitate to eat something that I wasn't quite sure of"
When we went back to the book we did read more closely that they are usually 8-20 inches tall, (ours was 6 ") with no sign of a cap or stem ( looks like ours has a cap or stem). Next time we will read the whole description. Mushrooms are off the menu tonight.
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