Phallales

Worcs Wildlife Trust site

Worcs Wildlife Trust site

Worcs Wildlife Trust site

Worcs Wildlife Trust site

Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Puerto Viejo, Heredia, Costa Rica

RSPB Arne Reserve, Dorset.

Phallaceae Colus pusillusBasidiomycetes (Puffballs and others)We found two of these today. They are a fungus which emerges from an egg like jelly substance. You can see it at the base of the 'fingers'. The fungi is found in sand and is a decomposer. Often smells like rotting flesh or faeces to attract flies that spread the spores.

The Phallaceae are a family of fungi, commonly known as stinkhorn mushrooms. Belonging to the fungal order Phallales, the Phallaceae have a worldwide distribution, but are especially prevalent in tropical regions. They are known for their foul smelling sticky spore masses, or gleba, borne on the end of stalks called the receptaculum. The characteristic fruiting body structurea single, unbranched receptaculum with an externally attached gleba on the upper partdistinguish the Phallaceae from other families in the Phalalles. The spore mass typically smells of carrion or dung, and attracts flies and other insects to help disperse the spores. Fm...Wikipediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aseroe_rubra

Yellow Pinch, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Malvern, Worcestershire.Devils Fingers is an alien species from the Southern Hemisphere, where in Australia it is called Octopus Stinkhorn. It is thought to have been introduced to Europe with various war supplies, or possibly with wool, in about 1914. This may account for the fact that it is regularly seen in the New Forest, sometimes in considerable numbers, in areas that were used by the military in 1942.

Rose Bank Gardens, Malvern, Worcestershire.Devils Fingers is an alien species from the Southern Hemisphere, where in Australia it is called Octopus Stinkhorn. It is thought to have been introduced to Europe with various war supplies, or possibly with wool, in about 1914. This may account for the fact that it is regularly seen in the New Forest, sometimes in considerable numbers, in areas that were used by the military in 1942.

Malvern, Worcestershire.Devils Fingers is an alien species from the Southern Hemisphere, where in Australia it is called Octopus Stinkhorn. It is thought to have been introduced to Europe with various war supplies, or possibly with wool, in about 1914. This may account for the fact that it is regularly seen in the New Forest, sometimes in considerable numbers, in areas that were used by the military in 1942.

Malvern, Worcestershire.Devils Fingers is an alien species from the Southern Hemisphere, where in Australia it is called Octopus Stinkhorn. It is thought to have been introduced to Europe with various war supplies, or possibly with wool, in about 1914. This may account for the fact that it is regularly seen in the New Forest, sometimes in considerable numbers, in areas that were used by the military in 1942.

Malvern, Worcestershire.Devils Fingers is an alien species from the Southern Hemisphere, where in Australia it is called Octopus Stinkhorn. It is thought to have been introduced to Europe with various war supplies, or possibly with wool, in about 1914. This may account for the fact that it is regularly seen in the New Forest, sometimes in considerable numbers, in areas that were used by the military in 1942.

Malvern, Worcestershire.Devils Fingers is an alien species from the Southern Hemisphere, where in Australia it is called Octopus Stinkhorn. It is thought to have been introduced to Europe with various war supplies, or possibly with wool, in about 1914. This may account for the fact that it is regularly seen in the New Forest, sometimes in considerable numbers, in areas that were used by the military in 1942.

Chiny, Luxemburg, Belgium

North Hill, Malvern , Worcs

Shrawley Wood, Worcestershire, SO805652

Shrawley Wood, Worcestershire, SO805652