Morels, Truffles and other Spring Mushrooms
by Michael W. Beug Email: beugm@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
Slide 47.
Calvatia subcretacea is a thick-skinned puffball in the
golfball to hardball range. The warty skin and growth under western mountain
conifers, especially spruce and fir, make it easy to identify. It is reportedly
edible when young though rarely found in quantity. Personally I am leery
of the thick-skinned puffballs because of their resemblance to Sclerodermas.
The trick is to remember that young puffballs have an interior gleba that
is soft like a marshmallow and the gleba of Scleroderma species is hard
and soon turns from white to purple.
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