Date: 1 Mar 2002 21:00 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] vuzh.livejournal.com
ah, a stinkhorn.

always fun to find those.
you should post this to [livejournal.com profile] mycology


your mushroom is called "Lizard's claw".
Phallales Clathraceae.

(note that the latin genus is Phallales, same root as Phallus,
the penis similarity wasn't lost on the early identifiers of fungi)

also called Lysurus Borealis or Anthurus Borealis.

Gary Lincoff's book says the "similar Small Lizard's Claw is considered a great delicacy by the Chinese."
presumably he means the "egg" of the fungi, (before the slimy spores have burst open)
since you'd have to be crazy to eat a mature stinkhorn.

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