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	Sky-Bolt Enterprises article: Pee-yew! Those smelly stinkhorn fungi
		All stinkhorns arise from an egg-like sack and are therefore related to puffballs and earthstars because the spores are enclosed in a structure.
		The two stinkhorn families, phallaceae and clathraceae, are classified according to the structure of the fruiting body and I’m lucky(?) enough to have a representative from each family.
		I triple bagged all those smelly octopi stinkhorns and their eggs and left them with the trash, but I still saw vultures circling overhead looking in vain for something dead.
	www.sky-bolt.com /Stinkhorns.htm (1484 words)

	Stinkhorn - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
		Stinkhorn, fungus known for its putrid odour and phallic shape, distantly related to the puffball mushroom.
		The stinkhorn is found in open woods, in...
		Many other mushrooms are generally avoided because either their edibility is doubtful, or because, like stinkhorns, they have a disagreeable odour....
	au.encarta.msn.com /Stinkhorn.html (108 words)

	Floridata: Transplanted Gardener: Pee-yew! Those smelly stinkhorn fungi
		Stinkhorns are appropriately named, as they all have a foul-smelling slime covering some part of the fruiting body.
		All stinkhorns arise from an egg-like sack and are therefore related to puffballs and earthstars because the spores are enclosed in a structure.
		The two stinkhorn families, phallaceae and clathraceae, are classified according to the structure of the fruiting body and I'm lucky(?) enough to have a representative from each family.
	www.floridata.com /tracks/TransplantedGardener/stinkhorns.cfm (1401 words)

	Welcome to Built4u, Northwest Florida's Building Network
		Stinkhorns, which belong to an order of fungi that include puffballs, earthstars and the bird's nest fungi, produce mushrooms that smell like rotted meat.
		Stinkhorn fungi start as white, egglike structures that are anchored to the soil by a root-like network.
		Simone says, "Stinkhorn fungi do not cause disease -- in spite of their occurrence near declining trees and shrubs." He says that their colonies may extend in all directions around the visible mushroom and that they persist for a number of years until their food source is exhausted.
	www.built-4-u.com /ecgardening/previous/Story19.html (616 words)

	Stinkhorns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stinkhorns are the group of fungi most commonly photographed and sent in to FJ for identification.
		The head of a stinkhorn may be red or white, and is covered with a greenish gooey gleba.
		Another morph of the stinkhorn family is the red wiffle-ball fungus, or the Clathrus genus.
	www.fungaljungal.org /family_pages/Stinkhorns.htm (714 words)

	Phallaceae: The Stinkhorns (MushroomExpert.Com)
		Stinkhorns occur "naturally" in North America, especially in subtropical and tropical regions--but some stinkhorn fruitings in temperate and north-temperate climates may be caused by human endeavors, resulting from the transportation of soil, sod, wood chips, trees, and so on.
		Stinkhorn consisting of a cage-like structure, with horizontal cross-lattices (at least near the top of the structure) in addition to vertical lattices.
		Stinkhorn without horizontal cross-lattices, consisting only of vertical columns which may or may not be fused at their tips--and which may or may not peel back at maturity to appear like the arms of an octopus or squid.
	www.mushroomexpert.com /phallaceae.html (1679 words)

	Stinkhorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stinkhorns are a type of fungi which produce a foul-scented, rod-shaped mushroom.
		Stinkhorns instead produce a sticky spore mass on their tip which has an odor of carrion, dung, or other things that attract flies.
		Stinkhorns develop from round structures called 'eggs', which do not stink.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stinkhorn (240 words)

	stink.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		A Stinkhorn is hard to miss: it has a "impudent" phallic shape, ill-smelling fruiting body and produces the odor of ripe garbage.
		Stinkhorns can emerge from an underground "egg" and burst open within an hour, "becoming slimy and fetid at maturity," according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.
		Stinkhorns are a folk remedy against cancer in Eastern Europe.
	www.ralphmoss.com /stink.html (454 words)

	Stinkhorns spotted in fields \| Integrated Crop Management
		John Holmes, extension field crop specialist, reported that farmers are finding lots of stinkhorn mushrooms in soybean fields as they harvest.
		The common name stinkhorn describes the putrid smell of the fungus.The odor attracts insects that then disperse the spores of the fungus on their bodies.
		Mutinus caninus is the stinkhorn mushroom that has been recently spotted in fields.
	www.ipm.iastate.edu /ipm/icm/2004/10-4-2004/stinkhorns.html (284 words)

	BugInfo.com \| Stinkhorn Mushrooms
		There are many kinds of stinkhorn mushrooms in the world, most from tropical countries, and it is felt that this particular species - the Lizard's Claw Stinkhorn, Lysurus cruciatus, most likely is an import from a tropical part of the world.
		The stinkhorns may be spread into new environments in planting materials, landscape materials such as bark, or in some other transport mechanism involving bringing in garden materials.
		The process of producing the mushroom, in the case of stinkhorns, begins with a large "egg" shaped blob on the soil, which can grow to the size of a golf ball.
	www.buginfo.com /articles/stinkhornmushrooms.cfm (1107 words)

	Stinkhorn - Phallus impudicus - ARKive
		Its terrible foetid smell as well as an unmistakable appearance makes the stinkhorn one of the most easily recognised species of fungi.
		Young fruit bodies (the visible part of the fungus) are known as 'eggs', and have often been confused with real eggs.
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	www.arkive.org /species/ARK/fungi/Phallus_impudicus (163 words)

	Boston Mycological Club - Stinkhorns in the Rain
		But the stinkhorn fungi are doing just fine.
		The first photo (below) is of a "netted stinkhorn" found in Lincoln, MA on October 16.
		The photo below is from October 29 in Beverly, MA, from an inquiry to the club that came with the photo of a stinkhorn "egg" that had been sliced open to reveal the inner structures.
	www.bostonmycologicalclub.org /Stories/0034_Stinkhorns.html (99 words)

	Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The stinkhorn fungus is a decomposer and is considered beneficial because it helps breakdown decaying plant material.
		Stinkhorn fungi start as white, egg-like structures that are anchored to the soil by a root-like network.
		Stinkhorn fungi do not cause disease, in spite of their occurrence near declining trees and shrubs.
	bay.ifas.ufl.edu /landscape.htm (504 words)

	PHALLUS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Stinkhorns can be very common in suitable environments, growing in loose clusters of 10 to 20 fruitbodies, which usually appear in summer to late autumn.
		Six families and 22 genera of stinkhorns have been descibed, but there are only two species in Britain - Phallus impudicus and the smaller, less common "Dog stinkhorn", Mutinus caninus.
		A newly emerged stinkhorn with its slime-covered cap intact.
	helios.bto.ed.ac.uk /bto/FungalBiology/phallus.htm (346 words)

	Stinkhorn Homepage
		Stinkhorns are saprophytes: the fungus under the stinkhorn or egg grows through wood chips or organic material in the ground and decomposes it.
		Stinkhorns tend to grow in cultivated areas, i.e., urban parks, wood chips, and composted soil, throughout the US (and around the world).
		Stinkhorns are too disgusting to eat, although none that I know of are poisonous.
	www.wildmanstevebrill.com /Mushrooms.Folder/Stinkhorns.html (645 words)

	Pee-yew, Must Be A Stinkhorn! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The odor of this organism was so powerful we smelled it well before we saw it, and the closer we got the less doubt we had about how appropriately it had been named.
		Stinkhorns are a family of mushrooms (the Phallaceae, for their resemblance to a phallus) with varied shapes and colors, but one thing they have in common is a fetid odor reminiscent of rotting flesh.
		Although stinkhorns typically occur in rich, moist soil, some species are so prevalent in plant mulch they become a problem for genteel gardeners with sensitive nostrils.
	www.hiltonpond.org /ThisWeek010622.html (783 words)

	The Amazing Fungi
		The rays are firmly attached to a clump of mycelium and leaf debris.
		A cluster of stinkhorn fungi (Phallus impudicus) at the "egg" stage.
		This stinkhorn belongs to the ornate stinkhorn family (Clathraceae), with an erect, angled or fluted stalk and reddish-brown lantern-shaped tip.
	waynesword.palomar.edu /ww0504.htm (5018 words)

	Stinkhorn Homepage
		Stinkhorns are saprophytes: the fungus under the stinkhorn or egg grows through wood chips or organic material in the ground and decomposes it.
		Stinkhorns tend to grow in cultivated areas, i.e., urban parks, wood chips, and composted soil, throughout the US (and around the world).
		Stinkhorns are too disgusting to eat, although none that I know of are poisonous.
	www.econetwork.net /~wildmansteve/Mushrooms.Folder/Stinkhorns.html (645 words)

	Homes: Olfactory assault
		There are many types of stinkhorn fungus, including the orange squid or octopus stinkhorn (Clathrus columnatus) that has branched fingers and secretes a brown gooey-looking substance that smells worse than it looks.
		He notes that stinkhorn fungus can be common in Florida's subtropical climate, which provides just the right conditions for its growth: warmth and moisture.
		In fact, stinkhorn fungus is considered an aphrodisiac delicacy in China and is eaten with delight.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/12/10/Homes/Olfactory_assault.shtml (618 words)

	Bungalow23 » Stinkhorn Shrooms
		Stinkhorns grow on rotting wood, like the free woodchips available in Minneapolis parks when trees are cut down.
		Here I’ve brushed back the surface of the mulch to show a colony of stinkhorn eggs preparing for their day in the sun.
		Stinkhorns have been associated with all manner of misery and mischief.
	bungalow23.com /2006/08/18/stinkhorn-shrooms (586 words)

	Stinkhorn Mushrooms - The P&PDL Picture of the Week - Plant & Pest Diagnostic Laboratory, Purdue University
		The mushroom is known as a stinkhorn and like other fungal decomposers, stinkhorns live on decaying plant material.
		A stinkhorn grows within an enclosed structure or membrane that looks similar to an egg.
		When the developing fungus expands, the "egg" breaks open, revealing the young mushroom-like fungus, which at that time is usually odorless.
	www.ppdl.purdue.edu /ppdl/weeklypics/10-10-05.html (159 words)

	Elegant Stinkhorn
		The Elegant Stinkhorn is long and narrow, pinkish-white, covered with green slime.
		The Elegant Stinkhorn attracts insects with its smell, especially flies, such as the Bluebottle fly.
		The spores are in the stinkhorn's green slime.
	www.fcps.k12.va.us /StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/elegant_stinkhorn.htm (235 words)

	Stinkhorns (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		he Stinkhorn at the right, Mutinus caninus, which is 5 inches high (13 cm), often appears growing in the mulch I spread in my organic garden in Mississippi.
		This fungus stinks and draws flies for a reason, however, and that's because the greenish-brown stuff is composed of basidia and basidiospores.
		Therefore, when flies fly away with stinkhorn goo sticking to their legs, they're helping the Stinkhorn send its reproductive propagules, its spores, into new territory.
	www.backyardnature.net /f/stinkhrn.htm (214 words)

	APTOS / Rare fungus shows up at nursery / Octopus stinkhorn grows in rotting wood in Australia
		The stinkhorns appeared at Bamboo Giant this spring two or three weeks ago, earlier in the season than before and in greater profusion than ever.
		The octopus stinkhorn, also known as devil's claw, wood-chip stinkhorn or, for the scientifically inclined, Clathrus archeri, was named for its odiferous reproductive ways as much as for its distinctive five-tentacled looks.
		Despite the mycological delight at the profusion of octopus stinkhorns reproducing in Aptos, there is the specter of the considerable environmental damage wrought by invasive species.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/05/26/BAG0F6RSNF1.DTL (658 words)

	Stinkhorns Are Here . . . But Don't Try To Eat Them, Bayou Bill
		They are also a little slimy, attract flies and have a hole in the center of the cap that looks a little like the mouth of a carp or a sucker.
		Although the cap of the stinkhorn does somewhat resemble the pitted and ridged cap of the morels, the stinkhorn cap is much more fragile.
		The stinkhorn may have an unsavory odor and an appearance to match, but it is not poisonous.
	bayoubill.com /archives/2002/stinkhorns.html (370 words)

	Stinky Stinkhorn Master Gardener Column of the Brunswick County Center of the North Carolina Cooperative Extension ...
		The term "fungi" is commonly used for several groups of plants that, lacking chlorophyll, grow as parasites or as saprophytes.
		Stinkhorn fungi may be identified as small, lattice, columnar, "dog," common and collared.
		The Columnar Stinkhorn opens to reveal a structure of four or five cinnabar-red, spongy, curved columns united at the top and containing slimy masses of foul-smelling, fetid, sticky spores.
	www.ces.ncsu.edu /brunswick/mastergardener/mg040308.html (646 words)

	thisisby.us - Fighting Stinkhorn Mushrooms, by moreanonymous
		The reason why you’d want to get rid of Stinkhorn mushrooms is that they smell like rotten everything and they look like dicks.
		Several sites described the fascinating life cycle of the Stinkhorn and they gave me clues on where I could intervene to prevent their return.
		The important thing now was to make sure that if any Stinkhorns did emerge that I didn’t allow them to spread their spores.
	www.thisisby.us /index.php/content/fighting_stinkhorn_mushrooms (1345 words)

	Fungi Stinkhorn
		The stinkhorn fungus (Phallus impudicus) lives up to its name and smells of rotting flesh.
		This attracts flies to it which in turn help to spread its spores (the fungal equivalent to plant seeds).
		Young stinkhorns however do not smell, and look almost like a white egg in the woodland leaf litter - and at this stage they are edible!
	www.croxteth.co.uk /news/Stink_1.asp (79 words)

	Phallus impudicus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Welcome to probably the most disgusting mushroom there is. Sue, Jon, Jo and I went on a mushroom hunt in Thetford forest, and this was the vilest thing we came across.
		This egg, cut open, reveals that within the outer membrane of the egg there is a layer of jelly, then a green dusty layer and within the centre a white spongy mass.
		This is a mixture of the green dust (the spores) and the jelly.
	www.ongar.org /mushrooms/stink.html (184 words)

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