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How to find and identify edible Pear-shaped Puffball mushrooms, also known as Stump Puff balls ( Apioperdon pyrifome) is explained as I discover these growing on a log on the Appalachian Trail. While these are edible mushrooms they can be confused with not edible mushroom: Earth Balls (Scleroderma sp.) . Children and adults have always enjoyed kicking over Puffball Mushrooms or squeezing Stump mushrooms to reveal clouds of 'brown smoke'. The 'brown smoke' is actually trillions of mushroom, hydrophobic spores.