Where I used to live we got puffballs as big as a proper football … if you get them at the right stage they’re delicious cut in thickish slices and dipped in beaten egg, then breadcrumbed and fried in butter 😋
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Certainly one of the earthstars @coccinella probably Geastrum fimbriatum - Sessile Earthstar. The deflated looking one is possibly an old common puffball.
The football thing @Fairygirl was possibly a Giant Puffball, Calvatia gigantea. Very nice sliced into steaks and grilled.
Those are beautiful @NormandyLiz - and so are your photos. Really gorgeous in every way Thanks @steephill and @Dovefromabove - yes, it definitely looked like that. I've not noticed them around here before, but it might just have been that I wasn't in the right location when they've been present. They all deteriorate and disappear so quickly. I'll keep a lookout next year though. PS - I won't be picking it and eating it though....
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
The ones with the hole in the middle look like they could be one of the Earthstars
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Thanks @steephill and @Dovefromabove - yes, it definitely looked like that. I've not noticed them around here before, but it might just have been that I wasn't in the right location when they've been present. They all deteriorate and disappear so quickly. I'll keep a lookout next year though.
PS - I won't be picking it and eating it though....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...