Help Me Solve A Mystery – What Is This Thing?
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For the love of all things Holy, tell me what this mysterious and rather manly looking thing is in my garden? It just popped up – it seems happy with the 50% humidity and 100 degree heat in my late June garden.
By the way, fly’s land regularly on the chocolate looking… uh… “tip” and I am afraid to touch the weird thing. It is almost 6” high.
Can anyone help?
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Some kind of Stinkhorn fungi, Shawna – this Mushroom & Fungi site has photos of different species.
Appropriately, the genus is Phallus.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
It's a Common Stinkhorn, Phallus impudicus & Phallus hadriani
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallus_impudicus.html
Yep, that's what it is. They're very funky. I haven't seen one in years, and that was in my parents' garden.
Ooh funky! And that's NOT your garden is it? LOL–There's NO GREEN IN IT!
The plant world is definitely NOT dull!
THANK YOU – mystery solved. Looks like a stinkhorn. Here's a great link for more info if you'd like to learn about the rather manly stinkhorn 'shroom – http://bit.ly/4Vb1Z.
And yes, that's my garden – it's in a back little corner behind a poisonous type of rhubarb I grow. The irony is that I grow Chinese rhubarb for it's phallic spring display.
Phallic symbolism everywhere! lol!
A very interesting fungi indeed!
Ryan
Yep, stinkhorn fungus! I've seen a few of them, mostly back in the spring when we were getting lots of wet weather.
Hi Shawna, I found a very similar one growing in a client's garden, under a shrub in the mulch a couple of weeks ago. I wish I'd had my camera with me – it was bright green, orange, and white. I think we're seeing so many of them this year because of our wet, wet spring.