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Ravenel's Stinkhorn
A common eastern North American stinkhorn that rises from a pinkish to purplish egg, often in woodchip mulch and around rotting wood. Its head is smooth to finely granular rather than pitted and ridged, which separates it from Phallus impudicus. The head is coated with dark olive-brown, foul-smelling spore slime that attracts flies.
Not recommended. Some general references report the immature egg as edible, but this is poorly documented and mature stinkhorns are not eaten. Unopened stinkhorn eggs can be mistaken for deadly Amanita buttons: a stinkhorn egg cut top to bottom shows a gelatinous layer around a developing stem and head, whereas an Amanita button shows a cap, gills and stem outline.
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