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#FungiFriday🍄: Puffballs are round and fleshy mushroom that erupt from the forest floor and on rotting wood, ranging in size from your fingernail to as large as a football (⚽️English and American🏈 football!). Most puffballs lack the stalk, umbrella cap, and frilly gills characteristics typically associated with woodland mushrooms. They may be foun singly or, most often, in groups. On maturity the mushroom begins to dry, develop a spore reserve inside, and an opening in the upper surface. Distu

Arthur 🧒🏼 talks about a very fun family of mushrooms called Puffballs 🍄💨 These round, egg-like fungi are rather common and when mature, they “puff” their spores out of the top, much to Arthur’s delight! All species of puffballs in the UK are edible when young and pure white inside, looking like a ball of mozzarella cheese. If they are any other colour inside (commonly green, purple or black) or they look like a developing mushroom when you cut them open, then they are not for eating! If you