Strange looking ... plant?
 

Hi all,

I just discovered this strange looking plant/fungi in my garden.

http://www.zip.com.au/~swm/images/weirdshit.jpg

I have no idea what this is and have never seen anything like it before. Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks in advance,

Gavin

Strange looking ... plant?
 

You pervert. Shame on you for showing a picture of your dildo.

Do a google search for stinkhorn fungus.


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Hi all,

I just discovered this strange looking plant/fungi in my garden.

http://www.zip.com.au/~swm/images/weirdshit.jpg

I have no idea what this is and have never seen anything like it before.
Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks in advance,

Gavin

Strange looking ... plant?
 

wrote in message
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Hi all,

I just discovered this strange looking plant/fungi in my garden.

http://www.zip.com.au/~swm/images/weirdshit.jpg

I have no idea what this is and have never seen anything like it
before. Can anyone shed any light?

Thanks in advance,

Gavin

I have had these in my garden (Sydney Australia) recently after the
rains. It would seem that it is some kind of stinkhorn fungus as
another poster mentions - perhaps an Australian one, unless Gavin's
location is a coincidence. The pics on mycology web pages are either
white with a darker head or smooth red/pink with a darker head. This
one with ribs running down a pink shaft seems to be rare as I cannot
find it. Any mycologists out there?

David

Strange looking ... plant?
 

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David Hare-Scott wrote:
I have had these in my garden (Sydney Australia) recently after the
rains. It would seem that it is some kind of stinkhorn fungus as
another poster mentions - perhaps an Australian one, unless Gavin's
location is a coincidence. The pics on mycology web pages are either
white with a darker head or smooth red/pink with a darker head. This
one with ribs running down a pink shaft seems to be rare as I cannot
find it. Any mycologists out there?

Hmm. Via google I found this page: http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0504.htm

This is a lantern stinkhorn. The page says that it is found in southern California -- I wonder what it is doing in Balmain, Sydney, Australia?

Thanks for your help David,

Gavin

Strange looking ... plant?
 

I just discovered this strange looking plant/fungi in my garden.

You mangled it a bit digging it up. If it looks like a red to orange phallus
sticking up out of the ground, it is the fruiting body of a fungus, like a
mushroom. They are ugly but harmless. We sometimes get them in the mulch in
damp years.
Iris,
Central NY, Zone 5a, Sunset Zone 40
"If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming
train."
Robert Lowell (1917-1977)

Strange looking ... plant?
 

Gavin, don't you have schools in Australia? Did you attend regularly? It
should be obvious that what we see in your picture is a thing. Some sort of
a thing. :-)

Strange looking ... plant?
 

"..............Gavin, don't you have schools in Australia? Did you attend
regularly? It should be obvious that what we see in your picture is a thing.
Some sort of a thing. :-).............."

Typical reply from the USA.
Every one knows that it is a "Whatyou'macallit " or in the North of
England a "Whatsit" or a "Thingy"
Really depends on the leaf colour, and growing habit.

We have a Whatyou'macallit that got to over 30 ft growing up through a
Leylandii.