Even more mushrooms in Franklin Park Zoo

[urbpan]

This group of puffballs (Lycoperdon perlatum) came up just outside the service yard gate at the zoo, a few feet from a gasoline pump. This species is edible, but the possibility of contamination from the fuel makes eating these a bad idea. I mainly took these pictures to further document how profuse the mushroom fruitings have been this year:


I've never seen so many terrestrial puffballs at once! (I have seen similar troops of puffballs coming from dead wood).

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I saw this massive fungus and thought of you, Alexis, and Laura Orabone:

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

That's a big one!
Bondarzewia berkeleyi, which always gets pretty big, but that's bigger than I've ever seen!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the ID--I'll add it on Flickr!