Is common puffball edible?
Is common puffball edible?
Common puffball is considered to be a good edible mushroom when young, when the gleba is still homogeneous and white, although care must be taken to avoid confusion with immature fruit bodies of poisonous Amanita species. They have been referred to as "poor man's sweetbread" due to their texture and flavor. The puffballs become inedible as they mature: the gleba becomes yellow-tinged then finally develops into a mass of powdery olive-green spores. It is one of several edible species sold in markets in the Mexican states of Puebla and Tlaxcala.
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Lycoperdon Species
Common puffball 
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