Most often you'll smell these before you see them, they grow in all types of woodland settings and where you have them they'll be in abundance. They are edible ( tasted mossy) but only in the first stage of growth once they start to mature stay clear.They start out like an egg covered in a mucus and membrane before developing to their phallic state, there are a couple of varieties,including the Dictyophora duplicata ( Netted Stinkhorn) though restricted to the Southern Hemisphere with a net like veil below the cap and the Mutinus caninus (Dog Stinkhorn) pinkcapped.
Enough said the pictures will do.
the edible stage, to eat clean off the membrane and the gel like mucus, slice and pan fry
starting to mature, no smell yet
mature, at this stage they start to stink and attract the flies
past it's personnel best,
though a good time to observe it's honeycomb structure
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