The weeds aren't bad enough. No, now I've got little...shweens growing in my garden. These things came up last year. They didn't grow into anything. Eventually they just sort of died in place and got covered with flies. That's not supposed to happen to normal garden life. What the hell are those things?
Looks like 'Dog Stinkhorn' Mutinus caninus - member of a very phallic mushroom family, which is probably why the family is called "phallaceae".
BTW - it's not only their shape, it's also the fact that they've got a hole at the end which oozes a nasty looking liquid containing the spores. It's easy to smell it from 40 or 50 feet away, and flies just love it - this is how it disperses the spores. Boy aren't you the "lucky" gardener!!!
Looks like 'Dog Stinkhorn' Mutinus caninus - member of a very phallic mushroom family, which is probably why the family is called "phallaceae".
BTW - it's not only their shape, it's also the fact that they've got a hole at the end which oozes a nasty looking liquid containing the spores. It's easy to smell it from 40 or 50 feet away, and flies just love it - this is how it disperses the spores. Boy aren't you the "lucky" gardener!!!
Well I'll be! Thank you, thank you! Color me impressed.
And how about me? I properly identified it as a "shween!"
I bet there's a whole porn genre dedicated to these things.
Nasty.