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Welcome to Mushroom World, your resource for mushroom information. On this site you can search for mushrooms in our database and read about them. You can use this information to identify fungus, but do not eat mushrooms you are not 100% certain of. Use many resources, and be skeptical of your own conclusions. It takes normally years of experience to be able to identify mushrooms reliably. The responsibility for the identification is yours; the site takes no responsibility for damage caused by wrong identifications. Please read the disclaimer.
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Help identifying a mushroom
If you know how a mushroom looks, but need help to identify it, try our Mushroom identification helper. You can browse mushroom pictures there and perhaps find a match.
If this site cannot help you, we recommend mushroomobserver.org, which is a community site for mushroom identifications.
Today's Mushroom
Today's mushroom is Phallus rubicundus. The mushroom is Inedible. It grows in Australia, Asia, Africa.
Description: Phallus rubicundus is a species in the stinkhorn family and has a wide distribution in tropical regions. It has the typical stinkhorn structure consisting of a spongy stalk up to 15 cm tall arising from a gelatinous "egg" up to 3 cm in diameter.
Fruiting body consist of a hollow cylindrical stalk supporting a conical to bell-shaped cap. The orange to scarlet stalk tapers towards to top, and has a pitted surface. The wrinled cap is scarlet red. It is initially covered with a foetid, slimy grayish-olive gleba.
Similar species Mutinus elegans does not have a clearly separated cap, and instead bears its gleba on the apex of its pointed stalk.
Phallus rubicundus on the MushroomExpert.Com Web site.
Dimensions: Cap 1-2 cm diameter; stem 3-12 cm tall x 0.5-3 cm diameter
If you are interested in this mushroom, look it up in our database. You can find more detailed pictures there.
