Dusky Puffball
Lycoperdon nigrescens
Cap Diameter (mm): 
10-40mm
 
Description: 

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.

Cap: 

Subglobose, covered with pointed blackish-brown spines that wear away to leave a fine mesh on the greyish-tan inner wall.

Distribution: 

Very common and widespread from Summer till Autumn.

Habitat: 

Grows either singly or in groups on soil in acidic woodland, heath, sand dines and moorland.