Fungi are really interesting to me. And even though some look similar on the outside there can be a range of colors inside. And since we have quite a few fungi puffballs now, I had to check them out. But only on the macro level and not microscopicly.
Splitting this one open, it was this beautiful mustard color!
Another puffball also munched!
Yet another color, a pale yellow. The skin looked similar to the previous puffball. Perhaps this one was not as mature?
Some nibbling here too. I wonder if like leaf miners trails on the plants someone might be able to ID the muncher?
The above puffball was all white inside!
So on this one it looks more like stretch marks to me.
Deciding to try a new method for looking at the color inside, I cut a wedge. Another beautiful yellow!
Then I tucked the wedge back hoping it would continue to mature its spores. None of the above puffballs were actually puffing out spores yet. So they must have all been immature. Furthermore I suspected the different shades of the yellow ones could have been the same species. I just don’t know for sure.
That 1st one is like a mushroom inside a mushroom – gorgeous! Always a surprise inside – just have to look.
And that is one of my fav words ever – puhpowee!!!!
Cool puffballs
That 1st one is like a mushroom inside a mushroom – gorgeous! Always a surprise inside – just have to look.
And that is one of my fav words ever – puhpowee!!!!
I love the insides of those puffballs, especially the first one! Puhpowee Power! 🤜