Mushrooms anyone?

I like the way it looks but have no interest in tasting it no matter how you fix it.

Nancy -- what category does a puffball fall under?

It looks like the fungus my kids take from dead trees. The white side is usually on the underside and the top looks like a piece of wood protruding from the trunk. They only grow on dead and fallen trees. My kids take a stick and write their names and date to mark when and where they found it. They have an aweful smell when they are drying, but are really cool to look at. We found one still attached to a tree that someone had drawn a beautiful sunset scene on the underside.

Very interesting - this puffball.

A friend of mine went mushrooming in the woods once, and she smelled one making an "mmmm" sound and then handed it to me. It smelled like dog-doo. To each his own, I guess.

I looked up puffballs online the other day---I think this is a "giant puffball" and is edible. A coworker told me she has eaten puffballs that have been sliced and sauteed in butter. I'm not brave enough to try it(fear of the other poisonous ones out there!). It is cool to look at tho'