Common Stinkhorn

Phallus impudicus

Family: Phallaceae

Common Stinkhorn (Phallus impudicus)
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Overview

European stinkhorn — egg-stage 'witch's egg' is edible (peeled, mild taste). Adult is the famous foul-smelling phallic form crowned with sticky olive spore slime.

Edibility
Edible
Rarity
common
Trophic mode
saprotrophic

Host trees & substrate

  • Local forest substrate

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