Wow, I've never seen any kind of fungi like that before (and I know fungi!). The look of it is kind of unsettling.

I used to find these fuckers a lot in my back yard some years back and I always thought that that Muslim I buried days before was having angel lust or something. When they release spores they look especially cool. Funny thing about them, besides God's hilarious need to make random things in nature slightly resemble a phallus, is that it literally smells like dog shit and it reeks from quite a distance (hence their name, Stinkhorns). I imagine this is done to attract flies to spread spores.

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