That, and the fact that it is indeed edible and has a taste that lies somewhere between radish and nothing at all. Perhaps the only non-disgusting quality of the stinkhorn is the fact that it stands as an emblem of the lengths life will go to keep on keepin’ on. The fruiting body of Aseroë rubra, a member of the stinkhorn family, in action.
According to the stinkhorn wiki, the gleba smells like the dead, rotting flesh of animals or dung, which is unsurprising considering the fact that the stinkhorn uses flies to spread its spores. After it bursts its way through the ground, the fruiting body also oozes out a gelatinous goop known as gleba, which contains the stinkhorn’s spores. The fruiting body of Phallus impudicus (that’s the part of the fungus that’s ejected from out of the ground) is produced from a squishy, bizarre egg, which looks from a cross-sectional view like a slimy piece of sushi. The house has 4 bedrooms, 2. It looks like something that would look great anywhere along the east coast with its worn shingle siding, wraparound colonial veranda, and its slender form. And when we say interesting, we mean gut-wrenchingly gross. Here is an octagonal House with a large hemispheric dome up top giving it a unique mushroom form. The physiology of the stinkhorn mushrooms is where things get really interesting. The name of the family, Phallacea, sounds kind of off in its own right, but that’s nothing compared to the moniker of the common stinkhorn (pictured above), Phallus impudicus, which translates literally to “immodest phallus.” By the by, botanist John Gerard referred to Phallus impudicus as the “pricke mushroom” or “fungus virilis penis effigie,” when he discovered it in the late 16th century. Not the colloquial name, stinkhorn, which sounds like a deranged Pokémon or something Elon Musk would put on a Tesla, but that scientific name.
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