I’m not sure if anyone wouldn’t like puffball mushrooms. There’s something inherently endearing about them, especially smaller puffballs. Their texture is satisfying to the touch and you can find them in a variety of habitats – from forests to hills, bushy thickets to open forests. The western giant puffball is edible when young and a prized possession for mushroom hunters because of its enormous size. Other delicate beauties like gem-studded puffballs are more interesting to examine, with their spiky stubble.
According to the Wikipedia sources, puffballs were used in Tibet for making ink, used in “rural America” to anesthetize honey bees, which led to “experimental medical application of the puffball smoke as a surgical general anesthetic in 1853” (Hopper et. al. 2021).
According to the Wikipedia sources, puffballs were used in Tibet for making ink, used in “rural America” to anesthetize honey bees, which led to “experimental medical application of the puffball smoke as a surgical general anesthetic in 1853” (Hopper et. al. 2021).