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From: mcq@druxt.UUCP (McQueerRL)
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Subject: Re: Puffballs
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Date: Tue, 10-Jan-84 14:14:34 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 10 14:14:34 1984
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I once took an edible wild foods course, and I guess I should pass
on what was said about puffballs:

Puffball mushrooms (before they reach the spore-filled stage, YECHH!)
are edible.  HOWEVER:

			WARNING!!!!!

When harvesting puffballs ALWAYS cut them in half and examine them
carefully to see that they are absolutely homogenous throughout.  The
danger lies in accidently picking the button stage of some other kind
of mushroom.  A button stage Amanita looks very much like a small
puffball, for instance, but if cut in half has an obvious gill structure
beginning to form.

I absolve myself of all responsibility for other people's fungus collecting.
Do so at your own risk.  I thought you might like the information, though.

			Bob McQueer
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