Fun Guss - You gotta watch him.
When wandering around the field, I see a lot of new things making their home on the grass , things that should naturally be there, but years of pesticides, sheep teeth and sheep feet have prevented their development. I often see interesting fungus but usually only look for a few seconds and then walk on. I don't know that much about them, so I don't tend to linger and think about it too much. Earlier in the year something peaked my interest a little more than usual though. Somewhere in my distant memory, I remember reading a book about edible fungus and my memory recalled, that the book suggested that "most edible mushrooms have a very similar looking cousin that will kill you". That news put me off edible fungus. My recollection though, was that the exception to that rule seemed to be field mushrooms and puffballs. Now that memory was definitely a distant memory, but when I saw the fellow in the above picture growing, I thought it worthy of further investigatio...