Red Stinkhorn
Description
Fruit-body growing from a whitish, leathery devil's egg which develops below the surface, Ø 2-4 cm, rupturing the outer membrane with a disc or egg tooth. Devil 's egg with long, white mycelium strand. Fruit-body 8-12 cm high. Upper part conical acorn-shaped, with dark olive-green slime with faint smell, below that shallowly honeycombed, orange-red, with ring-shaped disc at the apex. Stem 6-9 x 1-2 cm, mushroomy, hollow, whitish to cream or pale pink.
Occurrence
On and near strongly decayed wood of broad-leaved and coniferous trees and litter (heaps) in woods, parks, orchards, kitchen gardens and hayfields.
Saprophyte.
Related and/or similar species
- Mutinus caninus
- Mutinus elegans