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Very similar to the Common Puffball but is darker in colour with small blackish brown spines, which fall off leavinfg a net-like pattern on the cap.
Subglobose, covered with pointed blackish-brown spines that wear away to leave a fine mesh on the greyish-tan inner wall.
Very common and widespread from Summer till Autumn.
Grows either singly or in groups on soil in acidic woodland, heath, sand dines and moorland.