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.
Very common and widespread from Summer till Autumn.
Grows either singly or in groups on soil in acidic woodland, heath, sand dines and moorland.
Subglobose, covered with pointed blackish-brown spines that wear away to leave a fine mesh on the greyish-tan inner wall.
