sentences:  The peridium eventually sloughs away, exposing a powdery yellow-brown to greenish-yellow spore mass (the gleba).The puffball is edible when the gleba is still white and firm, before it matures to become yellow-brown and powdery.Mature specimens have been used in the traditional or folk medicines of China, Japan, and the Ojibwe as a hemostatic or wound dressing agent.