Puffball discussion link in eflora group http://groups.google.com/group/indiantreepix/browse_thread/thread/1af14d5ac8241283/d804fe62373e1379?hl=en&lnk=gst&q=puffball#d804fe62373e1379
Regards Raghu ________________________________ From: raghu ananth <[email protected]> To: sibdas <[email protected]>; indiantreepix <[email protected]>; tanay bose <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, 26 April, 2010 7:50:30 PM Subject: Re: [indiantreepix:15029] Re: Fungus - Puffball Dear all/ Tanay ji / Inderjeet ji Forwarding this mail discussion on puff balls some time ago, again for assistance. Am just curious to know, If these puffballs could be narrowed down further to species level and then i could read on them/ (Pls see Sibdas ji's earlier relevant mail above on puffball kinds. Bhimanagudda in Uttara kannada, where these puff balls appear strewn around on the ground is in fact frequently visited by locals, children, livestock care takers and very rarely - trekkers. Are they harmful? The internet links show mainly giant puff ball kinds. In what aspects do these bhimanagudda puff balls differ from the giant puffballs found in other countries. Tanay ji, I guess you were not part of the group at that time. thought of sharing and getting inputs from you too. Regards Raghu ________________________________ From: sibdas <[email protected]> To: indiantreepix <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, 28 July, 2009 11:16:11 PM Subject: [indiantreepix:15029] Re: Fungus - Puffball Puffballs may be of different types, Calvatia, Scleroderma, Lycoperdon form different types of Puffballs. In general puffballs are edible, but sometime dangerous as can be mixed up with some very poisonous ones as Amanita. However, edible puffballs should be taken when young and spores are yet not developed. Unlike Amanita, when young puffballs are cut vertically do not show stem or gills. In temperate countries, people used to collect edible fungi during summertime, but after the chernobyl disaster people became cautious not to collect mushroom from open land specially in Eastern Europe and Germany, where mushroom collection was (is?) almost week-end hobby. Puffballs shoot black spores when they are 'ripe'. Tibetians used to make their ink with puffball powder. On Jul 28, 8:47 pm, "nabha meghani" <[email protected]> wrote: > It is indeed important to know the mushrooms, not only puffballs, well. > August till okt. is the mushroom season here in Germany and people go looking > for mushrooms in the nearby woods. Every season the newspapers, TV, radio > give out warnings not to eat mushrooms without knowing them. There are tipps, > how to collect them. 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The > part of the hill was like a grass/open land - no trees near by.. We saw > dozens of such white balls strewn arround. > > Here is what Parul R Sheth has to share on Puff balls in his book - > "Strange Plants" > > "The interesting fact about this is that when rain drop falls on a ripe > puff ball, a small cloud of spores is puffed out. > It has a distant cousin in the giant puffball of Central America. These are > said to choke nearby observers when all of the many billions of spores > explode together. " > > Attached a puff ball -habitat photograph and also the South east monsoon > arrival we witnessed in the Western ghats- winds blowing fast and the clouds > passing over us and a complete clearing in 10-15 minutes in the afternoon at > 1:45PM. > > Regards > Raghu > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > From: Parjanya guru <[email protected]> > To: nabha meghani <[email protected]> > Cc: raghu ananth <[email protected]>; [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, 28 July, 2009 3:58:32 PM > Subject: [indiantreepix:15003] Re: Fungus - Puffball > > I too agree with Nabha.. > Dear Raghu, hope you have not noticed its bursting... > There will be a large cloud of the spores, burst out even after a gentle > press.. > So you will get a yellow colored powder.... > > On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 2:03 AM, nabha meghani <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hallo, in german they come under tha category > BOVISThttp://www.mushroomexpert.com/scleroderma_citrinum.html > Most of them are poisonous. if u press them a big cloud of spores comes > out. > > Regards > Nalini > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: raghu ananth > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 6:45 PM > Subject: [indiantreepix:14981] Fungus - Puffball > > Mushroom with round head, > > Bhimana gudda, Western ghats, > Uttara Kannada > 24 June 2009 > > Regards > Raghu > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Looking for local information? 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