Fungi
Stinkhorns: with a smelly, brownish spore slime
Stinkhorns, cage-like

Stinkhorns, cage-like

Add a sighting Subscribe View significant View unverified

The mature fruitbody consists of a spherical, pear-shaped, ellipsoidal or somewhat columnar cage.

 

Ileodictyon fruitbodies are white. Those of  Colus and Pseudocolus are yellow, orange or red.

Continue reading

Stinkhorns, cage-like

Moderators

Heino1
Heinol
become a moderator

Announcements

There are currently no announcements.

Discussion

CanberraFungiGroup wrote:
30 Apr 2025
looks like Colus pusillus
Colus hirudinosus
HelenCross wrote:
28 Apr 2025
Cool to see both species in the one image!
Colus hirudinosus
TimL wrote:
3 Jan 2024
Hi Kylie. I think it's the same situation here. These fungi have appeared on chipbark used as a mulch, but so far just in this one location. I've searched the other mulched areas nearby but so far no Craypot Stinkhorns have appeared. Tim
Colus hirudinosus
KylieWaldon wrote:
3 Jan 2024
One year on southern NSW coast this was distributed when chipbark was used wide and far on street and park trees as mulch - and these came up everywhere from the chipbark. Until then I''d never seen it (or smelt it).
Colus hirudinosus
Heino1 wrote:
6 May 2022
It's not the commonest stinkhorn in Canberra, but it has turned up in a number of suburbs, from north to south.
Ileodictyon gracile

Top contributors

Top moderators

831,500 sightings of 22,894 species from 14,402 members
CCA 3.0 | privacy
NatureMapr is developed by at3am IT Pty Ltd and is proudly Australian made