Bridal veil mushroom

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

Bridal Veil Mushroom...actual non-scientific name

Fully formed maiden's veil or bridal veil fungus (Phallus indusiatus)(sometimes genus Dictyophora) on the rainforest floor. Heath River, Tambopata / Bahuaja-Sonene Reserves, Amazonia, Peru / Bolivia border.

This pretty mushroom smells like rotting flesh.

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

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

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…