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Fungi Spotting – 7 April 2016

Posted in Fungi, Fungi Photos, Microbiology, Mycology, Natural History, tagged Asteroe rubra, Fungi, fungi photos, phallic shaped fungi, red fungi, Stinkhorn fungi on April 8, 2016| Leave a Comment »

While walking back to my office from training session, I noticed some Stinkhorn fungi in a flower bed. In fact there were multiple specimens of two different species of Stinkhorn fungi located in close proximity to each other (see fourth photo) –

Asteroe rubra – a red star shaped Stinkhorn fungus
Phallus rubicundus – a red phallic shaped Stinkhorn fungus

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Fungi Spotting – 1st April 2016

Posted in Fungi, Fungi Photos, Microbiology, Mycology, Natural History, tagged fungi photos, fungi spotting, red fungi, Stinkhorn fungi on April 1, 2016| Leave a Comment »

Red Stinkhorn fungi (Phallus rubicundus) spotted on a flower bed. I even spotted some flys attracted by the pungent foul smelling or dour omitted by the fungus specimens.