#devils fingers

[demeter1111]

Clathrus archeri aka Devil's Fingers

Steve Parsons via Twitter

[owlivhoo]

From the Archives XVIII, 2023

Devil's Fingers

The first time I participated in Funguary!

Loved turning this bizarre mushroom into a sexy lady, still think the hair is kinda cool

[infinitebrians]

devil's fingers grows several red and black spotted tentacles out of its initial egg stage

it smells like rotting flesh!

[gloomywolfmushroom]

Devil’s Fingers (Clathrus Archeri)

Devil's fingers, often referred to as octopus stinkhorn, is a rare fungus that was first discovered in Britain, 1914. It's found in decaying matter like mulch, in both woodlands and grasslands but is scarce all throughout the U.K.

This eerie red, tentacle like mushroom sprouts from an egg-shaped pod that is called a witches egg. The Devil's Fingers usually has 4-7 slender and spongy arms. Each arm can grow up to 10cm, and a sticky black substance filled with spores (gleba) coats the tendrils. When it reaches full maturity, it begins to smell of putrid rotting flesh, which attracts insects. The spores are then spread by the visiting insects wherever they land next.

[leftredheaded-art]

Gonna take a break for today from posting older work to post something I just finished: Cascading Rapids, an npc from the pf2e campaign I'm in. He's a Leshy librarian, and I based his design off the Devil's Fingers mushroom.

[avernine]

I really should have learned by now that inktober just isn't for me - I get hyped up by the prompts, can't keep up with the breakneck pace I set myself (the plan was a full a4 ink illustration every other day, including weekends)

Ahaha. Hah. Hah.

I got two finished and one plotted out? Like the idea sketches were done and I was trying to build a ref in minecraft. ACK

I wish I could set up some kind of contraption that if I so much as said "inktober", would launch a boxing glove at my face, looney toons style.

[fandomsoda]

i have a fungus that is cool but my brain is not braining so i will just give you the fungus on its own

Clathrus archeri

ooooo, Devil’s Fingers!? I know EXACTLY WHAT TO DO WITH THIS!

Bing bang boom boys next mushroom sans is here, and it’s Nightmare!! Had a lot of fun with this.

This little guy is 7 27/32 inches tall! I know that’s obnoxiously precise but as I said, I’m using a mathematical formula to calculate these.

Idk why I decided to calculate everyone’s height I should probably have just said they’re all really small, but whatever.

[muddysocks]