#witch's egg

[susantyrrell]

...been doomed to fly high! ☁️🎲

[mycoblogg]

What's the weirdest fungus you've found, so far? - 🩰

hi, 🩰-anon !!

the weirdest fungus i've found - & i unfortunately have no photo evidence - is a stinkhorn "egg", though i have never seen a stinkhorn. ^^"

i came across three of them on a hike last weekend !!

[foxesandfairlies]

The inside of a witch’s egg, an immature form of the common stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus). Apparently edible, I only tried a small bit of the inner white section but did not find it particularly pleasant. 

[campcounselorfryingpan]

[teletubby-fan-theorist]

Singing WITCH’S EGG from FORBIDDEN ZONE !!!!! Such a BONKERS movie and Susan Tyrrell as Queen Doris is AMAZING R.I.P you excellent lady.

anyway enjoy!!! 

BECAUSE I WAS HATCHED OUT OF A WITCH’S EGG! BEEN DOOMED TO FLY HIGH 

[cristation]

Happy Birthday, Susan Tyrrell! <3

[craftybeggar]

Witch's Egg [from Forbidden Zone] by Danny Elfman

[fungipunk]

The stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus) is a very common fungi found throughout British woodlands during the summer months. They first appear upon the woodland floor in the form of 'eggs', which are similar to puffballs in size and shape. At this stage of their development, the eggs are known as Witch's or Devil's eggs. Despite these names of ill forebode, the white flesh found within the egg is edible and can be eaten raw, it has a creamy nutty flavour which I found very pleasant. Care should be taken not to confuse it with Amanita species which look similar at this stage and could prove deadly. Once the egg hatches it quickly becomes apparent that the fungi is aptly named, Phallus impudicus means shameless penis! The sight of the stinkhorn, was apparently, too much for many a Victorian mistress. Etty, the eldest daughter of Charles Darwin, is said to have collected and burnt any specimens she found in her garden, to prevent them from corrupting her servants. As an evolutionary solution to the problem of spore dispersal, few fungi can outdo the stinkhorn. The sticky spore bearing mass at the tip of the fungi (the gleba) has an incredibly powerful smell of rotting flesh. This smell attracts flies which consume the gleba with great gusto until all that remains is the white honeycombed tip. Spores are then deposited throughout the woodland in the dung of the flies, genius. So next time you are walking around your local woodland and the repugnant smell of rotting meat fills your nostrils, have a look around, it could be Satan's Member