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Forest-Imp ā Starfish Stinkhorn
Published: 2013-01-23 16:53:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 4307; Favourites: 116; Downloads: 54
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Aseroe rubra was first described in Tasmania in 1800. Loves high altitude forests and grasslands, where it is found natively also in Australia, on islands across the Pacific, as well as South Africa. Introduced a few other places with Australian soil...This Starfish or Anemone Stinkhorn we encountered on Kaua'i deep into the Alaka'i Swamp... and at Camp Sloggett where we stayed... though stinky, not nearly as much as many other stinkhorns i have encountered, such as those Phallus ones. Their goey slime that oozes around the orifice, known as gleba, sticks to the feet of flies in disemination and contains their spores... Pretty much a musty and carrion smell...
Cool bright scarlet... like a little alien.
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Thanks for the world tour of things I'll never see in my lifetime.
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I bet you can smell that thing from a ways away!
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oh my, looks like tiny cosmic horror XDĀ
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It looks like a -like carnivorous plant with claws
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This is a really really cool fungi. Amazing find!
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It's so pretty for such a stinky plant too!
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Whoa cool, I just had this pop up on my sidebar. I'm looking for all the stinkhorns right now. I ate a Clathrus archeri egg here in Colombia, and I'm heading to Costa Rica soon to find C. chrysomycelinus--well, while doing other things I suppose.
It's cool, I'm pretty sure C. archeri was introduced here from Tasmania too. It probably happened when they planted all the blue gums here.
My stinkhorn drawings:
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Knysna forest in south africa, there are tones of these. Good place to find fungi that.
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I was gonna say, did it creep up your back and sink its tendrils into your spine and take control of your brain?
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Day of the Triffids came...
Interesting one, this is first time when I hear about this species.
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Years ago i found a stinky-room in my yard. It may have been one of those..err, dog stink horns i think. But it looked a little different from the pics i found here on DA.
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Amazing....it DOES look like an alien. 
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But what the hell???? I never saw a mushroom like that, it's a bit creepy, cool
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I haven't seen these ether but the name rings a bell. I don't know how common they are but I haven't seen these when I am on a walk about.
I will look out for these fine specimens in the future. Well taken
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I've never seen or heard of these before, thanks for posting this image. What an amazing fungus
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I'm glad you enjoy... i was very excited when i came across these... they do look like a little mythical creature emerging from the earth...
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