Giant Puffball Mushrooms

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Puffball mushrooms can grow to huge sizes. Up to 20 kg or 44 lbs in weight! However, they’re picked while still small and immature for culinary use.

Once the flesh of a puffball turns yellow or brown, it has begun to create spores which can cause stomach upset.

Puffballs can be confused with the immature versions of poisonous mushrooms, and they need to be cut open to verify before eating.

Edible puffballs have a solid white interior, while other mushrooms will be yellowish inside or have the silhouette of a cap-type mushroom.

If allowed to grow to full size, puffball mushrooms will burst, sending trillions of spores into the air.