Common Puffball
- has conical spines, and net-pattern when spines are rubbed off.
- flesh must be firm and all-white .
- flesh must be undifferentiated (no trace of gills, etc), no thick rind or outline of mushroom visible in cross section.
- color is white/off-white.
- found in groups.
- no unpleasant smell.
- cook before eating.
- warning: do not confuse with young specimens of the deadly Destroying Angel (which have no spines and have faint differentiation inside) or the Stinkhorn (which is dark inside).
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