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Topic Title: Strange Red Honeycomb Plant/Fungus
Topic Summary: need identification
Created On: 03/26/2012 10:29 AM
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03/26/2012 10:29 AM
PUNCH22 Posts: 487 Joined: 05/22/2011	I can't find it anywhere searching Google. It just popped up recently. It emits an extremely noxious rotting fish smell and draws all kinds of awful carrion-type flies to it (presumably to pollinate it). It looks like a fungus but it could be a plant. My wife thinks its growing where the dog has shat before (a bloodhound with horse size droppings). I dunno about all that. I just know its popped up in a few spots in a certain 6 x 6 foot area. It inflates in to a weird honeycomb pattern and then deflates just as mysteriously. Some have a weird white fungal top (pictured below), others do not. Some appear to be coming from beneath the mulch, others growing on top. Any ideas? The odor is AWFUL and the harbinger flies of death surrounding it areare equally terrible. Edited: 03/26/2012 at 10:49 AM by PUNCH22
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03/26/2012 10:33 AM
DHodges34 Posts: 1659 Joined: 07/31/2003	Try the Gardening forum: http://www.2ndlight.com/fuseta...che=5673796&entercat=y ------------------------- Manganese…Most people don’t even know what that is…
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03/26/2012 10:52 AM
PUNCH22 Posts: 487 Joined: 05/22/2011	good call
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03/26/2012 11:12 AM
ww Posts: 9682 Joined: 08/17/2007	Betcha it's Clathrus crispus.
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03/26/2012 11:25 AM
PUNCH22 Posts: 487 Joined: 05/22/2011	Originally posted by: ww Betcha it's Clathrus crispus. That's it! Thanks a bunch!!
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03/26/2012 12:54 PM
tom Posts: 4013 Joined: 07/25/2003	Stinkhorns! If I remember right they emit fatty acids with romatic names like putrescene and cadaverene, odors of rotting flesh, to attract scavanger insects to help with spore dispersal. tom
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