PHOTO OF THE WEEK, Year of the Puffball

This week we feature the Year of the Puffball, the largest mushroom in
North America.

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[Only registered users see links. ] (Jack Schmidling) wrote:


Excellent photos on your website, congratulations on all of it!

Jack Schmidling<[Only registered users see links. ]> wrote on Wednesday 29 Sep 2004 1:30 am:

Your naming of the giant puffball is a little out of
date. More than 15 years ago the scientific name was
changed to 'Langermannia gigantea'. The reason was
that the Calvatia's have a sterile base, which is
missing in the giant puffball.

Quite a few super dinners there!
I remember a bit of a television programme here in the
UK where they collected over a dozen from one spot,
and had an amusing shot of one man trying to carry all
of them, and another shot outside the restaurant
unloading them by throwing them basket-ball fashion
across the pavement from the van to the door.

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