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Lycoperdon cf. lividum
The fruitbody is typically 1 to 2.5 cm across, more or less spherical or slightly squashed vertically but with a short sterile stem consisting of off white spongy rice-like cells that are white at first but turn yellow-olive and finally brown. Greyish to ochre-brown outer peridium is slightly scurfy, while the inner peridial wall is thin with a finely granular surface. White at first, the spore-bearing gleba turns olive-brown and at maturity escapes via a small irregular apical pore.
Saprobic, commonly found in alkaline, neutral or only slightly acidic short-sward grassland, mainly near to the coast.
I'm not really familiar with puffballs so I'm not sure if this is the right ID. This could also very well be Lycoperdon pyriforme, but that fungus usually grows in clusters on dead tree stumps (or burried wood). Both species have been recorded in that particular area . Spotted in a broadleaf forest in rural area of Colmschate, Holland. (sources:see reference)
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