Phallus echinovolvatus is a veiled stinkhorn named for the spiny surface of its egg and volva. The mature fruit body has a white stalk, a yellowish to white reticulated cap carrying dark green spore slime, and a white net-like indusium that hangs almost to the ground. It is artificially cultivated in East Asia, and a chromosome-level genome was published in 2025 to support breeding.
Cultivated in East Asia in the same way as edible bamboo fungi, but species-specific edibility data are sparse in the sources consulted. Eat only cultivated product. Wild stinkhorn eggs can resemble Amanita buttons, so cut any wild egg lengthwise and identify it before use.
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Saprobic in soil and woody debris. Grown in culture on bamboo-based media.
Distribution
Described from Hunan, China; also recorded from Brazil. Cultivated material is recorded from Korea and New Zealand.
Characteristics
Egg: oval, layered with gelatinous tissue, surface covered with white needle-like mycelial projections. Volva: whitish to pale brown with echinulate projections. Receptacle (cap): white to yellow, reticulated, with dark green gleba. Indusium: white, regular polygonal meshes, reaching almost to the ground. Odor: likened to chestnut flowers. Spores: 3.0-4.0 x 1.3-2.0 µm.
