Alien Spawn - or something for the Missus?

[David Humphries]

I'm now finding the putrid smell somehow appealing, even sweet one might offer

 

Here's a couple of occurances in an old coppice wood, one undeveloped egg on the gano birch,

and one opposite a nice wee amethyst deceiver on an old woodbank.

 

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[RobArb]

 

The egg stage takes a while to develope (maybe a week or so), but the phalus is over it's prime pretty quick.

 

 

 

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Is that somebody trying to tell us somethin?

[David Humphries]

One of the Dog stink horns.

 

I think this is Mutinus ravenelli unlike M. caninus or M elegans.

 

First find for me.

 

Incredibly fragile.

 

 

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[David Humphries]

& a little more fly action......

 

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[Tony Croft aka hamadryad]

Im going to start calling you the lord of the flies!

[David Humphries]

Im going to start calling you the lord of the flies!

 

 

 

Would be quite apt, what what

 

 

Lord would suffice though

 

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[David Humphries]

Very sadly been watching this egg develop as I've driven past, over the last week & a half.:001_rolleyes:

 

 

Fascinating & compelling, & all over in such a short space of time.

 

 

 

 

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[geoff]

Great pics David,I get a few or these growing round my parent's garden,the smell is horrendous.

[Fungus]

Fascinating & compelling, & all over in such a short space of time.

 

Even more fascinating, once you realize the phallus doesn't grow, but stretch (hydraulics) with a speed of up to 2-5 centimetres an hour. See this text on Phallus impudicus and the photo of a cut in half devil's or witches' egg and a "bare" phallus.

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[Fungus]

I think this is Mutinus ravenelli unlike M. caninus or M elegans. First find for me.

 

M. caninus has an orange top, M. ravenelii a pink to pinkish reddish top, so this is M. caninus.