#stinkhorns

[bugshroom]

The Lattice Fungus and Orange Elf-Cup.

Lithograph, Theobald Carreras (1829-95).

[sheahuntphotography]

My first time seeing - and photographing - a stinkhorn. I was so excited I may have done a little jump and squeal!

04/08/2025

[bolaneno]

There was a stinkhorn mushroom (? Phallus rubicundus) in one of my plant pots🍄. Such a weird and interesting find.

[fungusqueen]

Going through photos from January. Found this stinkhorn species for the first time at the Alan Chadwick Garden at UC Santa Cruz. Me and my friends got covid during this roadtrip so we headed home as soon as I tested positive and I almost forgot I took pictures

EDIT: this is most likely Lysurus mokusin but the scale isn't apparent in this photo. this thing was huge. i've only ever seen Lysurus mokusin with a stipe no bigger than pinky finger, but the one above had more girth and i've never seen the "claws" of the stinkhorn unfurled like this. I'm still not totally sure of the species

[mumblelard]

somehow this drawer in my nightstand, which is normally empty, has come to resemble an everyday carry post for chaotic neutral locket cats and also

i am ready for the time of the year when there are too many watermelons

i saw my first stinkhorn of the season this week

i missed seeing the northern lights in georgia because i was zonked on four loko slushies

...

i want to go on a ten day trip to tokyo where i sleep in a different capsule hotel every night and i ramble around as i am wont to do and buy a capsule toy from the first machine i see at eleven past the hour every hour i am awake and at the end i line them up like a bunch of pocket sized diary entries. also beer in alley bars and little bits of food grilled over charcoal

i am reading the blue octavo notebooks, for the first time since i was working on that project during lockdown, and experiencing and unexpected wiggly steroscopic perspective on this mumblelardian epoch

i am leaving now to go buy yeast donuts at the supermarket bakery

[cold-open]

touches you with my nasty gnarled mushroom fingars

[rattyexplores]

Stinkhorn Mushrooms

The appearance of these mushrooms is quite alien, yet familiar.

Phallus merulinus

11/05/22

[mbhfaesthetic]

Stinkhorns with Lacy Veils

First image pexels.com (Michael Kim); Other images unsplash.com (David Clode, Ali Burhan, Graphic Node)