Edible Mushrooms

Puffballs family are edible as long as the inside flesh is white, and hasn't turned yellow or brown.

I've yet to try and puffballs, as I have found out they will go from white flesh, to yellow flesh while in the fridge. Mind you it was a quite a few days between picking and getting to prepare it.

I have heard that you should cut all puffballs down the middle to make sure you don't have a toxic and potentially deadly Amanita species.

For example, I have uploaded what I initially thought was a weird puff ball, but turned out to be an amanita. Wanted to get back to the location to see what the others grew into, but never got the chance.

So you can see that there are similarities between the buff ball and the amanita still in its sac, so cutting puffballs in half is a good precaution.

https://inaturalist.nz/observations/3600134