Red Octopus Fungus
Description
Fruit-body growing from a whitish, leathery egg, which develops below the surface, Ø 2-4 cm, emerging with the extremities of the arms connected. The 4 to 6 arms, on central stem 2-5 cm high, spread cuttlefish-like and curved downward. Arms 4-7 cm long, fragile, deep red, with olive-green, stinking slime on the reticular grooved upper surface.
Occurrence
On rich or loamy sand, often on wood chips or decayed wood in roadsides and the edge of broad-leaved woods. Summer-autumn.
Saprophyte.