Lysurus or Stinkhorn

[den]

Lawn Dick

found here

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[moonrose.livejournal.com]

that looks utterly revolting ... like, maybe, a diseased lawn dick :P

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

you should smell them.

On second thoughts, you shouldn't.

[tatterdemalion.livejournal.com]

that really is GROSS

it looks like those pictures they show to warn people off sex, this too can happen to you!!!

Syphillis here we come.

[cringer.livejournal.com]

Have you considered fertilizing it with penicillin?

[ldy.livejournal.com]

Wow! Disgusting, but fascinating.

[julesong.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeew!! I know I asked for a picture, but...

EEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

[elynne.livejournal.com]

From that picture, I can imagine the smell. Eeeeeurgh. bleh

That's a flower o.0

[arcturax.livejournal.com]

Weeeeeiiiirrd! Looks like something you'd see in bad furry pr0n you get people passing around at cons *shudders*

[burningweb.livejournal.com]

one word for it: disturbing.

[dancinglights.livejournal.com]

eeeeeew... i do like your name for them better, however.

[freso]

O.O;;
>_>
<_< oo;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; meep...

[noitaroproc.livejournal.com]

Oh Deeesuuuu...

[immolata.livejournal.com]

HAHAHAHAHA. Oh god. Ahem. Sorry, that's just all too funny. But I tell you, I would cultivate my lawndicks too. Send me seeds. I'll be the Johnny Appleseed of the postmodern age..

Yes, yes.

[lydri.livejournal.com]

Where is the woman? You think she'd be right on top of something like this. :P

spotted what?!

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

Oh my! Now I know what those weird things that weren't inky caps on the cherry tree stump were!
Fungi grows in my folks back yard but a few days out of the spring and summer, and I've always been stuck without a camera or the presence of mind to use one!!The inky caps are tall grayish brown things that drip black pus off the tip ends. But they aren't nearly as gross looking as those. Makes me want to come up with a pink version of spotted dick just to be silly:D!

[eredien]

You don't want to cultivate these. We had a few growing in our backyard for a while. It smelled like rotten meat, except for a longer distance, and drew flies. Flies pollinate these things. They are disgusting.

[vuzh.livejournal.com]

ah, a stinkhorn.

always fun to find those.
you should post this to 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.