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| Ha, like red fingers of the devil reaching up to kill my cornus floridas here come this.....
Its growing in a flower bed probably six feet from the trunk of a white ash I chopped down, six, eight years ago. Thanks guys. |
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- Posted by cearbhaill Zone 6b North-easter (My Page) on Wed, Apr 25, 12 at 14:34
| It's just a stinkhorn mushroom something or other that appears after a good rain. No biggie- a lot of people are creeped out by them but I think they are fascinating! You can dig them out if you like- use gloves, they're called stinkhorn for a reason :) |
Here is a link that might be useful: The Stinkhorn Hall of Fame
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- Posted by toronado3800 Z6 St. Louis (My Page) on Wed, Apr 25, 12 at 14:52
| Neat link. Thanks for the quick reply. I will leave it alone and see if it grows into any odder shapes! |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Wed, Apr 25, 12 at 15:15
| its got a better name than stinkhorn.. lol ... but i will leave you to find it yourself ... the ONLY way to get rid of it.. is to remove ALL of your mulch .. and that aint gunna happen ... wait until fly season ... it stinks of carp.. and draws them for miles around ... it has nothing to do.. with the tree removal.. as i have them everywhere i have mulch ... ken |
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| Scientific name for this particular stinkhorn is Mutinus caninus. I call it the dog thingie stinkhorn. That's a good link, cearb. I also think that these mushrooms are fascinating. |
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| I haven't ever seen one of those in my mulch! The scientific/latin name is fitting that's for sure. I always get the slime mold brown powder spores in my mulch. |
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| Give it time poaky, you will! They started to appear in my beds about the second year after the mulch was placed. They are very cool to look at while being somewhat perverse in appearance... |
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| Had these last year in a bed where I had cedar mulch under pine straw. They are neat, but they smell (at least mine did). I bit the bullet and removed the cedar mulch and they are no more. |
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- Posted by wisconsitom 4/5 WI (My Page) on Fri, Apr 27, 12 at 17:51
| Quite similar to Phallus impudicus. But the latter have the additional beauty of a sickly green "head". That really completes the picture! I'm a fungiphile, so I would never try to rid my yard of something like this. But short of a truly heroic effort to rid the yard of all organic matter, which would be so wrong in so many other ways, you really can't get rid of them anyway. +oM |
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