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Puffball watch, 2010 - 2011

Watching earthballs, earthstars and puffballs coming up near deer lichen in Walton County in 2010 and 2011.

Date	DLSP	Cassine	30A-Seagrove	30A-E	30A-Lakewood	30A-DeerLake	Other
Sep 11							Biophilia Center unlabeled earthstars in movie
Oct 5 Oct 11	Beyond Nature Trail fungi
Oct 14	None by parking lot			None	None	None
Oct 15		north	None
Oct 17					puffballs	fungi
Oct 19	Beyond
Oct 21	Beyond, None by parking lot or side trail
Oct 24				W by NE	puffballs	fungi
Oct 25		Earthball	None
Oct 28	Beyond, None by parking lot
Oct 30			Earthballs
Oct 31				W by NE	puffballs	fungi	West of Lakewood mushrooms
Nov 2		None	Earthballs
Nov 4	Beyond, None by parking lot
Nov 7				W by NE	puffballs	fungi	Mushrooms destroyed
Nov 9		None	Earthballs
Nov 11	Beyond, None by parking lot
Nov 13		Earthball update	Fungi
Nov 14				None	puffballs	fungi
Nov 18	Beyond update
Nov 20		update	update
Nov 21				None	puffballs	None
Nov 26	Beyond update
Nov 27		Earthstar	update
Nov 28				None	puffballs	None
Dec 2	Beyond, parking lot
Dec 4			New fungi
Dec 5						Possible fungi tops	West of Lakewood: huge new pile of large reddish mushrooms
Dec 9	Beyond update
Dec 10			Similar fungi
Dec 12				None	Earthballs, Same puffballs	Same possible fungi tops	Mushrooms gone
Dec 16				W by NE
Dec 23				W by NE
Dec 24			update
Jan 01			fungi
Jan 02				update	Earthballs and earthstars	Earthball
Jan 07			Earthball
Jan 09					update	update
Jan 27	Nature path to lake with update to previous page
Feb 14			update
Dec 28							Near outback
Date	DLSP	Cassine	30A-Seagrove	30A-E	30A-Lakewood	30A-DeerLake	Other

Key - Map of locations

• DLSP - Includes Deer Lake State Park parking lot, Nature Trail to lake, Nature Trail old, Nature Trail new, and beyond Nature Trail
• Cassine - Includes portions north of 30A starting at the Eastern Lake Nursery, orange badges, blue badges, and picnic table by NW Eastern Lake
• 30A-Seagrove - Includes locations north and south of the road west of Lakewood Drive going toward Hwy 395
• 30A-E - North of 30A and west of the entrance to the DLSP Nature Trail
• 30A-Lakewood - North of Lakewood Drive
• 30A-DeerLake - South of 30A and east of the levee over Deer Lake
• Other are occasional sightings in other locations
• None - indicates checking with nothing to report
• Entry not linked means no change or no more info
• fungi - mix of earthball, earthstar, and/or puffball

A few of the large, leathery earthballs persisted into March, 2011, the end of the earthball season here. I did not log any earthstar activity that I could see was new; the few I saw all looked old and weathered. See also map of locations (image). See Fungi.