Re: Help identifying a fungus?

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• Subject: Re: [CHAT] Help identifying a fungus?
• From: "Christopher P. Lindsey" lindsey@mallorn.com
• Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 22:34:12 -0500
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> Is it stinky? That looks similar to some here that truly smell like there
> is a dead body in the yard. OY!

Hi Andrea,

   I couldn't detect any odor, but the taste wasn't so good.

   OK, just kidding about the taste part.  :)  I didn't try it.  Although
   I understand that stinkhorns are supposed to be edible.

   I must've caught it just as it was dying.  From what I understand, the
   cap is covered with a really foul-smelling slime that contains spores.
   Flies come to eat the slime and carry the spores away with them.

   Once the slime is all eaten the odor is gone and the fungus dies.  I 
   think this must be the state that I caught it in.

Chris

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