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Elegant Stinkhorn
A slender, tapering orange stinkhorn that hatches from a whitish to purplish 'egg' in gardens, mulch beds and woods. The upper part of the stalk carries a foul-smelling olive-brown spore slime that attracts flies, which disperse the spores. Described by Montagne in 1856 from North America, it is the most common Mutinus in the eastern United States.
Not a food mushroom. Immature eggs are reported to be edible but are not recommended, and mature fruit bodies are not eaten because of their fetid odor, though they are not considered poisonous.
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