20 October 2009 Hampshire. Photograph copyright Leif Goodwin. Fruiting Body Sub-spherical, smooth, usually cracking with age, whitish when young, then yellow brown, decorated with coarse yellow brown strands, inside whitish, becoming dark greenish brown at maturity, to about 6 cm across Smell Indistinct when young, strong and rather unpleasant when mature, and detectable from several metres away Taste Indistinct Season Autumn Distribution Infrequent, more common in Scotland Habitat Partially buried in sandy soil in pine woods Spore Print Cream to yellowish Microscopic Features Spores oblong ellipsoidal, decorated with a coarse network (5-11) x (2-4) µm2 Edibility Inedible |