Bridal veil mushroom

Bridal veil stinkhorn mushroom. Photo credit: Si’Doel Doel.

Bridal Veil Mushroom...actual non-scientific name

Phallus atrovolvatus

I made a bridal veil mushroom costume for Halloween #fungi (🍄📷 Jeff Cremer)

Sacred Geometry on Instagram: "The bridal veil mushroom (Phallus indusiatus) is always dressed to impress. But it's not just the veil that attracts attention: the lid is covered in a slime containing greenish-brown spores, which attracts flies and other insects that eat the spores and disperse them. In fact, what gives this fungus this characteristic is a conical bell-shaped flap on a stem from which a delicate lace “skirt” emerges, which can reach all the way to the ground. First…

This pretty mushroom smells like rotting flesh.

#ForestFlora - Phallus multicolor, commonly referred to as Yellow Netted Stinkhorn or Yellow Bridal Veil, a species of fungus in the family Phallaceae or "stinkhorns".

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Stinkhorn Bridal Veil (Phallus indusiatus) As beautiful as it is, the Bridal Veil Stinkhorn (Phallus indusiatus) spreads its lacy skirt under the shade of the Madagascar rainforest; it will last less than an hour before fading. The pungent scent combined with the web-like indusium attracts small flying insects that will aid in spreading the spore-carrying slime found on the cap. Occurring throughout the tropical regions of the world, this distinctive fungus has always received much attenti

Phallus indusiatus - Longnet Stinkhorn, Veiled Lady, or Bridal Veil fungus. A rare, solitary species that uses flies to spread its spores. One of only four species of Phallus fungi in Australia.