Elegant Stinkhorn Mushroom

Elegant stinkhorn Mutinus elegans is a foul smelling fungus found anywhere woody material is rotting old stumps and branches mulch lawns. Grows in leafy debris mulch piles rotting wood.

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Mutinus elegans commonly known as the elegant stinkhorn the dog stinkhorn faeces carota the headless stinkhorn or the devils dipstick is a species of fungus in the Phallaceae family.

Elegant stinkhorn mushroom. I have little sense of smell so dont know if this one stunk. The elegant stinkhorn is a chemoheterotroph or saprotroph because it feeds on decaying material on the forest floor. We had seen another a day or two before.

Clear them away to prevent the Stinkhorns from growing in your backyard. The genus name is Phallus for fairly obvious reasons. Cylindric usually with a gradually tapered apex but occasionally with the apex more abruptly tapered.

The height was about 4 inches12 cm. The elegant stinkhorn can emerge from its egg and grow to full size and stinkiness in just a few hours. The most common type of stinkhorn fungus Phallus ravenelii has a pale white stalk and a phallic shape.

Commonly grows in landscaping mulch. The cap itself is. It is a mushroom that supposedly puts off a horrid smell.

Other sources including Arora point out that stinkhorns are edible but only in egg stage. This seems to be an elegant stinkhorn mushroom Mutinus elegans. Hall et al in their Edible and Poisonous Mushrooms of the World agree p.

Mutinus Caninus Mutinus elegans or Dog Stinkhorn headless single stalk orange to pink mushroom. We found this elegant stinkhorn growing in our flowerbed. Stinkhorn mushrooms which emit spore-infested gloop that smells like the rotting dead flesh of animals is disgusting in every regard.

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