Raspberry Stinkhorn

Mutinus ravenelii

Parks, gardens, deciduous forests. Summer.

Young fruiting bodies egg-shaped, globose, 1.8-2 cm across, white, with a greyish, yellowish, pinkish-yellowish tinge, with a slimy jelly-like layer inside. In the upper part it splits into a lobed volva, from which grows a receptacle 7-9 cm long and 1-1.8 cm thick, honeycombed, hollow, cylindrical, sometimes curved, carmine-red, blunt or pointed. Gleba dark greenish-brown, slimy, shiny, with an unpleasant smell. Very rare, protected.