Dune Stinkhorn

Phallus hadriani – Edible

Dunes, sandy coastal places. Summer, autumn.

Fruiting bodies smaller than those of the Common Stinkhorn; grows only on sandy dunes. Young fruiting bodies globular, egg-shaped, 3—5 cm across, attached to the substrate by yellowish-pink rhizoids. Exoperidium white, yellowish-pink. Receptacle stem-shaped, 5-12x2-3.5 cm, white, yellowish, with a greenish-violet, blackish-green, slimy head with a very unpleasant smell that is particularly attractive to insects. A head licked clean by insects shows white from afar. Found in the Palanga dunes. Protected.