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Many would consider puffballs to be both flora and fauna because of their properties. The cotton that they grow are, in fact, part of a plant. This plant, that can not survive on it's own, attaches itself to the animal's bare skin as spores shortly after the puffball is born. These spores take root into the puffball's flesh and uses the puffball's excess of nutrients on it's skin to grow as a soft armor and food source for the puffball. This plant has four different variants, ranging from different flavored cotton including vanilla (white), lemon (yellow), blueberry (blue), and strawberry (pink). These spores come from the puffball's family and herd, which means they're typically the same kind of cotton. It's not uncommon to see multiple-colored puffballs due to merged herds but it's rare for a puffball to have all four colors of cotton, due to the required conditions. A puffball regrows picked cotton every 10 days.

The animal part of the puffball is actually quite light and doesn't even have any bones or much meat. They are mostly hollow, minus the organs need to live, and are mostly full of air. When they are born they are too heavy to float but the cotton they grow from the plants that take root and grow 10 days later produce helium through the same magical properties that give the cotton flavor and makes it edible, making it taste and feel like cotton candy to the touch (a squeaky voice can be temporarily gained after consuming puffball cotton). This helium is what makes the 10 day or older puffball float in the air, just heavy enough that they never go any higher than three feet off the ground unless propelled by an outside force, mostly large gusts of wind. Because of the helium produced inside the cotton, the puffball cotton balls are useful in potions and spells that are flight or float-based.