>>596763Giant Puffball update: it was good. Definitely not poisonous, unless its a slow acting toxin that will attack when I go to sleep.
I got about 2lbs of pure white, fleshy, marshmallow textured, mushroom from this one puffball. I sauteed about 1/4 of it and put that in the freezer, dried out 1/2 of it in the oven and will add chunks of dried mushroom to stews I make this fall/winter, and ate about 1/4 of it raw, as part of a salad tonight.
If you see one of these around the area, that its pure white outside & inside, and is larger than a softball size, its probably worth harvesting.