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Resembling an oversized Common Fuffball but disintegrating when mature instead of releasing the spores through a hole in the top of the cap.
The fruitbody ispale buff, darkening with age to brownish, outer surface of small warts or spines soon disappearing to expose the papery, yellowish coloured inner wall.
Common and widespread from late Summer until Autumn
Growing singly or in small groups in humus soil in both coniferous and broadleaf woodland and on short grassland.
Macroscopically polymorphic, thus has acquired a long list of synonyms (see Kriesel 1989). (Re: The BC)