An uncommon puffball growing in pastures and meadows during Summer and Autumn but persisting in an old, dried out state for many months.
Fruit body 3–6cm across, subglobose, slightly pointed below, attached to the substrate by a single mycelial cord which often breaks leaving the fruit body free to roll about, outer wall white at first, flaking off at maturity to expose the dark purple-brown to blackish inner wall that encloses the spore mass and opening by a large irregular pore or extensive splitting and cracking.
Brittle or granular.
Gleba dark purple-brown.
Attached to the substrate by a single mycelial strand, which often breaks.
Uncommon
In fields, pastures and meadows from Summer till Autumn, but the old fruitbody remains in a dried out state form months.
