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Stinkhorn, fungus known for its putrid odour and phallic shape, distantly related to the puffball mushroom. The stinkhorn is found in open woods, in...

Fungi (Oxford Scientific Films)

The Gasteromycetes include such familiar forms as the puffballs in the order Lycoperdales and stinkhorns in the order Phallales. The basidiomata of...

Mushrooms and Toadstools

Many other mushrooms are generally avoided because either their edibility is doubtful, or because, like stinkhorns, they have a disagreeable odour....

- fungus with foul-smelling cap: a fungus with a thick white stalk and a thimble-shaped foul-smelling cap containing spores. The smell attracts flies, which disperse the spores.

	Advertisement Windows Live® Search Results Phallaceae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Phallaceae are a family of fungi, commonly known as stinkhorn mushrooms. Belonging to the fungal order Phallales, the Phallaceae have a worldwide distribution, but are ... Stinkhorn Mushroom - Dictyophora indusiata This very beautiful, phallic shaped mushroom, has an unpleasant, decaying flesh odour which attract large numbers of flies. stinkhorn - Definition of stinkhorn at YourDictionary.com MLA Style "stinkhorn." Webster's New World College Dictionary. 2009. Your Dictionary. 2 July 2009 <www.yourdictionary.com/stinkhorn> APA Style. stinkhorn. See all search results in Windows Live® Search Results

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