For the love of all things Holy, tell me what this mysterious and rather manly looking thing is in my garden? It just popped up – it seems happy with the 50% humidity and 100 degree heat in my late June garden.
By the way, fly’s land regularly on the chocolate looking… uh… “tip” and I am afraid to touch the weird thing. It is almost 6” high.
Can anyone help?
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9 comments:
Annie in Austin said...
Some kind of Stinkhorn fungi, Shawna - this Mushroom & Fungi site has photos of different species.
Appropriately, the genus is Phallus.
Annie at the Transplantable Rose
Andrea Parrish said...
It's a Common Stinkhorn, Phallus impudicus & Phallus hadriani
http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallus_impudicus.html
Mr. McGregor's Daughter said...
Yep, that's what it is. They're very funky. I haven't seen one in years, and that was in my parents' garden.
MaNiC MoMMy™ said...
Ooh funky! And that's NOT your garden is it? LOL--There's NO GREEN IN IT!
Sue said...
The plant world is definitely NOT dull!
Shawna said...
THANK YOU - mystery solved. Looks like a stinkhorn. Here's a great link for more info if you'd like to learn about the rather manly stinkhorn 'shroom - http://bit.ly/4Vb1Z.
And yes, that's my garden - it's in a back little corner behind a poisonous type of rhubarb I grow. The irony is that I grow Chinese rhubarb for it's phallic spring display.
Ryan said...
Phallic symbolism everywhere! lol!
A very interesting fungi indeed!
Ryan
Dave said...
Yep, stinkhorn fungus! I've seen a few of them, mostly back in the spring when we were getting lots of wet weather.
garden girl said...
Hi Shawna, I found a very similar one growing in a client's garden, under a shrub in the mulch a couple of weeks ago. I wish I'd had my camera with me - it was bright green, orange, and white. I think we're seeing so many of them this year because of our wet, wet spring.