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Mutinus elegans
Beautiful orange and red fruiting bodies. The dark slimy looking stuff on the upper parts of the fruiting bodies is the spore mass. They smell a bit like something rotting, this attracts flies and other insects which, in turn spread the spores.
Woody debris and leaf litter.
Found growing in wood mulch under oak trees at Sands Point Preserve, Sands Point, NY in Early September.
Spotted on Sep 2, 2010
Submitted on May 2, 2012
2 Comments
Good find. Welcome to PN.
A co-worker showed me some of these today but they were past their prime and were falling apart. They still had the odor, however, and I didn't hesitate to get a noseful of it. ;-)