Even more mushrooms in Franklin Park Zoo

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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).