Stinkhorn

Description:

These fungi were around 3 inches tall and the caps were really sticky and slimy, with a white open sort of netting hanging underneath. The genus Phallus, commonly known as stinkhorns, are a group of basidiomycetes which produce a phallic, often foul-scented, mushroom, from which their name is derived. Phallus indusiatus, commonly called the bamboo fungus, bamboo pith, long net stinkhorn, crinoline stinkhorn or veiled lady, is a fungus in the family Phallaceae, or stinkhorns.

Habitat:

Phallus mushrooms are found amongst leaf litter iwhere it grows in woodlands and gardens in rich soil and well-rotted woody material. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution in tropical areas.