More puffballs, I think...

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Check out this score I found at the edge of the woods at my daughter's school. Anyone know if puffballs dehydrate well?
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With all the rain we've had, there have been the opportunities for some nice rainbows. Crappy cell phone pic. This was actually a double rainbow but the fainter one doesn't show up.
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umm those look like air potato, Discorea bulbifera. "Dioscorea species are cultivated for their edible underground tubers in West Africa where they are important commodities. Uncultivated forms (as in Florida) however are reported to be bitter and even poisonous. Dioscorea varieties, containing the steroid diosgenin, are a principal material used in the manufacture of birth-control pills. Air potato is believed to have been introduced into Florida as an ornamental and a food plant in about 1905. By the early 1970s it was already recognized as a pest plant throughout the state.

Q: Can air potato ‘taters be eaten?

A: A search of the Internet revealed that they are eaten, steamed or boiled, in Hawaii and Panama but no notes on preparation were found. A few weeks ago, a reader sent in his recipe for cooking the ‘taters with rice, which seems safe enough in small quantities. Eat them if you must….. and while you enjoy them, remember that kudzu can be a dining delight as well.

Q: I have been growing for several years the “air potato” plant you wrote about recently. I grow mine on a fence so the bulblets don’t spread throughout the neighborhood. The tiny “potatoes” are edible and quite good if put into rice near the end of the cooking process (about five minutes seems fine). It is important to harvest as many of the bulblets as possible to reduce the number of additional plants next year."

http://www.walterreeves.com/landscaping/air-potato/
 
Mine were definitely puffballs. Pretty sure they were purple spore puffballs. Tasty but not so sure I like the texture of puffballs.

As for the rainbow, they're cool and all but that youtube vid is uhh.... well, I just don't know what to say to that guy's reaction. I'm thinking he was partaking of another kind of herb while out camping.
 
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