Stinkhorn
by Evelyn Patrick
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Title
Stinkhorn
Artist
Evelyn Patrick
Medium
Photograph
Description
Stinkhorns are amazing mushrooms, notorious for popping up suddenly and unexpectedly in urban settings. They are very diverse in appearance, but all of them share at least two features:
Some part of the fruiting body, at some stage in development, is covered with a foul-smelling slime.
The fruiting body arises from an "egg," traces of which may disappear by maturity.
Beyond these shared features, however, just about anything goes, and stinkhorns range from looking rather like Morels to appearing like, um, a portion of canine anatomy, or odd marine creatures with tentacles, or crab claws, Wiffle balls, Chinese lanterns, and so on.
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October 28th, 2009
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Peggy King
OMG!! Evelyn, this past weekend I took a picture of a very similar mushroom/toadstool - as you say, much like a morel. I was debating on whether to post it here or not but you have convinced me. LOL It has been suggested by a friend, that I call it Father Earth, so perhaps I will.... Hope you're feeling better!!!
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