Edible Cramp Balls

[99vyet]

:sword: :AR15firin Have to be careful but if well cooked can eat them too

 

[Tony]

Have you got any more information on this?

 

[martin]

Cramp Balls (Daldinia concentrica) are inedible. Sourceorling Kindersley Handbooks-Mushrooms IBSN 0-7513-2717-4
Dry crampballs will take a spark and if you have a lot they can be used as a passable subsitute for charcoal. Hope this helps.

 

[Ed]

Although I can find no referance to them being toxic ... I've found a few that state that they are inedible due to their hardness / texture.....

Ed

 

[Tony]

Yeah, that’s what I have always thought, inedible......

 

[martin]

Its a brave man that puts those brown balls in his mouth.

 

[bigjackbrass]

Maybe we could sell them to gullible squash players.

 

[Tony]

Off the woodland trust website

The hard black fruiting bodies of the fungi Daldinia concentrica and Hypoxylon spp are remarkably favoured by insects. The precise species of fungus appears not important, rather the hard black medium provided: the scarce fungus weevil Platyrhinus resinosus develops in Daldinia concentrica on ash trees as well as Hypoxylon fragiforme on beech, and other beetles behave similarly, eg Biphyllus lunatus, Litargus connexus, and Mycetophagus atomarius.