Common Stinkhorn

Phallus impudicus. It smells putrid to attract flies to the slime covering the thimble shaped cap. The slime contains the spores and it is the flies that spread them around. this is one of a number in a magnificent troop in a wood on the Mendip hills near Priddy

Date: 13/10/07

Location: Mendip

Photographer: Chris Abbott

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