I found this growing though bamboo under an arch in my garden which was covered with wisteria and jasmine. It was approximately 15cm and it smells like a fungus. Fionnuala Kilfeather, Booterstown, Co Dublin
I would say it smells like the vilest blocked sewers by this stage and not even the jasmine can mask it. Because this is the well-named Stinkhorn fungus with an equally descriptive Latin name – Phallus impudicus. The round head it acquires as it develops becomes covered with a dark olive slime, which contains the spores.
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