A PRETTY PECULIAR FUNGI

in blurtography •  4 years ago 

The basket stinkhorn (Clathrus ruber) it's definitely a memorable kind of fungi ...

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... both for its shape and its smell. The smell, that resembles the smell of the rotting meat, attracts the flies that will spread the spores, and the basket - shape offers to those flies also a nice shelter in which comfortably feed on the smelly secretion and pick up plenty of spores.

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I saw only one of these in 2020 ... and you can see it here.
As always in posts the photographs are my work.

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