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Last day with our vet student :(
She cuddles a stinky wormcat, still sleepy from its dental procedure.

More mushrooms in my yard

This is a puffball which started out exactly like this one. Then a hole formed at the top, probably from slugs grazing on it, and it collected a little puddle of rainwater. A bit of black rot appeared on it, and quickly it spread over the whole mushroom.


I took this context shot (the black puffball is visible at middle right) to show the extent and location of the ringless honey mushrooms in the yard.

Even more mushrooms in Franklin Park Zoo

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).