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| | Stinkhorns Horticulture and Home Pest News |
 | | Stinkhorns are appropriately named because they have a foul odor. | | | The odor attracts insects that crawl over the stinkhorn, get covered in spores, and then fly away, which disperses the fungus. | | | Stinkhorn fungi have been appearing in yards and fields recently. |
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http://www.ipm.iastate.edu/ipm/hortnews/2005/9-14/stinkhorns.html
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| | Phallaceae: The Stinkhorns (MushroomExpert.Com) |
| | Stinkhorns occur "naturally" in North America, especially in subtropical and tropical regions--but some stinkhorn fruitings in temperate and north-temperate climates may be caused by human endeavors, resulting from the transportation of soil, sod, wood chips, trees, and so on. | | | Later, these spores are dispersed by the unwitting insects, and the stinkhorn life-cycle continues elsewhere. | | | The foul-smelling slime is calculated to attract flies and other insects, who land on the slime and gobble it up. |
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http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallaceae.html
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| | Stinkhorn Homepage |
| | Stinkhorns are saprophytes: the fungus under the stinkhorn or egg grows through wood chips or organic material in the ground and decomposes it. | | | Stinkhorns tend to grow in cultivated areas, i.e., urban parks, wood chips, and composted soil, throughout the US (and around the world). | | | This is quite an advanced method of reproduction, paralleling flowering plants (which didn't evolve until toward the end of the age of the dinosaurs), the most advanced members of the plant kingdom, which use insects for pollination (not all flowering plants depend on insects -- some use less efficient wind pollination). |
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http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushrooms.Folder/Stinkhorns.html
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| | Jeepin Ohio :: View topic - The pink stinkhorn |
| | Stinkhorn eggs are not desirable as food and their consumption is not recommended. | | | Young stinkhorns develop within a spherical or flattened "egg", one to three inches in diameter, which may be white, pink, lilac, or flesh colored. | | | Stinkhorns can be found in lawns, around the base of dead trees, or in flowerbeds mulched with wood chips. |
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http://jeepinohio.com/viewtopic.php?t=133
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| | Stinkhorn - Phallus impudicus: More Information - ARKive |
| | These hyphae permeate the fungus's food source, which may be soil, leaf litter, rotten wood, dung, and so on, depending on the species (3). | | | The mysterious appearance of these 'eggs' led to the widespread belief that they were witches eggs or eggs of the Devil (2). | | | Its terrible foetid smell as well as an unmistakable appearance makes the stinkhorn one of the most easily recognised species of fungi (2). |
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http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/fungi/Phallus_impudicus/more_info.html
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| | The Amazing Fungi |
| | A cluster of stinkhorn fungi (Phallus impudicus) at the "egg" stage. | | | Basket stinkhorn (Dictyophora indusiata), a tropical stinkhorn fungus with a lacy, netlike veil (indusium) that hangs down from the cap (head). | | | At maturity it has five to ten radiating arms, each divided into two slender "tentacles." A slimy, black spore mass occurs in the center and at the bases of the radiating "tentacles." The spore slime has a fetid odor resembling that of rotting meat. |
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http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ww0504.htm#Halluc
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| | [n] any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales; & foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet". |
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http://lookwayup.com/lwu.exe/lwu/d?t=&h=&s=f&b=&w=stinkhorn&pos=n&Syn_ID=9335389&st=synrel
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| | Elegant Stinkhorn |
| | The Elegant Stinkhorn attracts insects with its smell, especially flies, such as the Bluebottle fly. | | | It can also be a nuisance because of the insects it attracts. | | | This fungus depends on insects to spread, much like flowers. |
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http://www.fcps.k12.va.us/StratfordLandingES/Ecology/mpages/elegant_stinkhorn.htm
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| | Feb2002 |
| | The Dog Stinkhorn has a slender whitish stalk and is usually taller than the Red Stinkhorn. | | | As this is happening, enzymatic activity and growth pressure cause the spore mass (green) to mix with the gelatinous material that sheaths the head and this mixture liquifies into a smelly goo that covers the bright red cap of the stinkhorn. | | | This tissue absorbs water rapidly, the cells swell, and the stalk expands and breaks through the outer wall (peridium) to become the stalk of the mature stinkhorn. |
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http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCE2002/feb2002.htm
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| | Pee-yew, Must Be A Stinkhorn! |
| | Although stinkhorns typically occur in rich, moist soil, some species are so prevalent in plant mulch they become a problem for genteel gardeners with sensitive nostrils. | | | The stinkhorn stalk grows incredibly fast, shooting up to a height of about six inches in half a day or less. | | | Each of these odors is a pleasure, and each triggers an almost-lost memory of a time long ago when we experienced that very same odor at some very different place. |
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http://www.hiltonpond.org/ThisWeek010622.html
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| | stinkhorn fungus |
| | This magnificent veiled stinkhorn fungus, probably the genus Dictyophora, produces a sticky, syrupy spore mass on the surface of its cap (top). | | | As its name implied it produces a carrion-like odor attracting flies (top) who become the spore producers. |
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http://www.bio.ilstu.edu/armstrong/crtrip/crimages/stnkhor.htm
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| | Phallus impudicus: The Common Stinkhorn (MushroomExpert.Com) |
| | After the spore-bearing slime has been picked clean by insects, the pitted and ridged surface of the cap can resemble the cap of a morel; see the second and third illustrations for examples. | | | Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or gregariously in gardens, flowerbeds, meadows, lawns, woodchips, cultivated areas, and so on; summer; widely distributed, but more common west of the Rocky Mountains. | | | They arise from an "egg" that results from the immature mushroom's universal veil, quickly breaking the "shell" and thrusting themselves up to heights of nearly 10 inches in a matter of hours! |
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http://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallus_impudicus.html
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| | Sun Herald - 01/30/05 |
| | Again, keep in mind that stinkhorns are not a plant disease and for all practical purposes are a good part of the environment. | | | Removing the mulch down to the soil level may help remove stinkhorn colonies. | | | Also consider changing/reducing your ground cover from a woody mulch material to a living mulch of jasmine, liriope, mondo grass, etc. If stinkhorns have been an issue, you may need to keep large mulched areas away from the house. |
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http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/013005/ew9.htm?date=013005&story=ew9.htm
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| | Stinkhorn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Stinkhorns instead produce a sticky spore mass on their tip which has an odor of carrion, dung, or other things that attract flies. | | | Note the white, egg-like immature stinkhorns around the more mature stalk. | | | Stinkhorns are a type of fungus which produce a foul-scented, rod-shaped mushroom. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stinkhorn
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| | Search Results for stinkhorn - Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | Stinkhorns produce odours that attract the flies and other insects that assist in... | | | A group of flowers are able to attract dung beetles (certain of the Scarabaeidae) and carrion flies (Calliphoridae) by mimicking the odours of dung or rotting flesh used by these insects as guides to... | | | When the mycelium of a fungus reaches a certain stage of growth, it begins to produce spores either directly on the somatic hyphae or, more often, on special sporiferous (spore-producing) hyphae,... |
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http://www.britannica.com/search?query=stinkhorn&submit=Find&source=MWTAB
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| | Pensacola News Journal |
| | Though a fungus, stinkhorns don’t cause plant disease, so they can be deposited in more remote areas of the yard or even in the compost pile without concern. | | | Caption: Squid stinkhorn showing the “egg” and the mature stage. | | | The one most commonly seen, or smelled, in |
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http://www.co.santa-rosa.fl.us/extension/articles/badodor012205.html
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| | PHALLUS |
| | Stinkhorns can be very common in suitable environments, growing in loose clusters of 10 to 20 fruitbodies, which usually appear in summer to late autumn. | | | (Right): Even after all the spore-containing slime has been removed, a stinkhorn can remain strongly attractive to flies and beetles for a several days. | | | Examples include Ophiostoma ulmi, the cause of Dutch Elm Disease (Chapter XX), and teliospores of some of the smut fungi are carried by flower-visiting insects. |
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http://helios.bto.ed.ac.uk/bto/FungalBiology/phallus.htm
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| | Stinkhorns Are Here . . . But Don't Try To Eat Them, Bayou Bill |
| | The stinkhorn may have an unsavory odor and an appearance to match, but it is not poisonous. | | | Although the cap of the stinkhorn does somewhat resemble the pitted and ridged cap of the morels, the stinkhorn cap is much more fragile. | | | Unlike morels, stinkhorn mushroom characteristics include an unpleasant odor. |
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http://bayoubill.com/archives/2002/stinkhorns.html
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| | Synonyms of stinkhorn |
| | usage: any of various ill-smelling brown-capped fungi of the order Phallales; "the foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet" |
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http://www.infoplease.com/thesaurus/stinkhorn
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| | Stinkhorns |
| | he Stinkhorn at the right, Mutinus caninus, which is 5 inches high (13 cm), often appears growing in the mulch I spread in my organic garden in Mississippi. | | | The whole thing is sticky and moist, and the top part appears to be covered with a dark, greenish-brown, slimy goo that stinks! | | | The flies are "planting" new Stinkhorns everyplace they land. |
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http://www.backyardnature.net/f/stinkhrn.htm
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| | Adventures of a Transplanted Gardener |
| | I gathered some twenty stinkhorn "eggs" in the mulch in the front bed after the first few sprouted. | | | My advice to her was to do just what I did and harvest the "eggs" and then spray the mulch with chlorine beach solution. | | | Topics on this page include: Lawn dispute, Fall/Winter, |
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http://www.sky-bolt.com/garden
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| | Phallus impudicus |
| | This is a mixture of the green dust (the spores) and the jelly. | | | The stinkhorn grows in rotting buried wood, and when it fruits it produces an egg (see picture below). | | | This egg, cut open, reveals that within the outer membrane of the egg there is a layer of jelly, then a green dusty layer and within the centre a white spongy mass. |
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http://www.ongar.org/mushrooms/stink.html
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| | Floridata: A Gardener's Journal - November 2004 |
| | I did observe that several egg stage stinkhorns went missing from my mulch leaving distinctive spherical cavities where they had once been. | | | The spore germinates on the ground and grows to form the white egg stage. | | | This rude arrangement is a triple with two in the egg stage and one mature columned stinkhorn. |
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http://www.floridata.com/tracks/gardenersjournal04/Journal_11_04.htm
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| | Pictures in and around Perivale Wood Local Nature Reserve / fungi stinkhorn |
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http://www.biochem.ucl.ac.uk/%7Edab/selpix/pages/fungi%20stinkhorn.htm
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| | stinkhorn - OneLook Dictionary Search |
| | Example: "The foul smell of the stinkhorn attracts insects that carry the spores away on their feet" | | | stinkhorn : Hutchinson Dictionary of Plants [home, info] | | | Phrases that include stinkhorn: common stinkhorn, dog stinkhorn, chambered stinkhorn, column stinkhorn, eastern stinkhorn, more... |
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http://www.onelook.com/?w=stinkhorn&ls=a
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| | W3Dictionary.com - Online Dictionary - Definition of DOG STINKHORN |
| | [n] a stinkhorn having a stalk without a cap; the slimy gleba is simply plastered on its surface near the apex where winged insects can find it | | | W3Dictionary.com - Online Dictionary - Definition of DOG STINKHORN |
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http://www.w3dictionary.com/dog+stinkhorn
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| | stink.html |
| | Stinkhorns can emerge from an underground "egg" and burst open within an hour, "becoming slimy and fetid at maturity," according to the Encyclopedia Britannica. | | | A Stinkhorn is hard to miss: it has a "impudent" phallic shape, ill-smelling fruiting body and produces the odor of ripe garbage. | | | In mice used for breeding (non-virgin mice), where 100 percent of the animals normally develop cancer, tumors were prevented in 90% of the animals by giving the same dose of Stinkhorn juice. |
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http://ralphmoss.com/stink.html
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| | Dictyophora |
| | In stinkhorns the cap is covered with foetid, evil-smelling, sugary (they tell me!) goo that is attractive to insects, particularly Diptera and especially blue-bottles. | | | This fruitbody was one of a large number growing in a flower garden close to the University of Guelph and the homeowner put in a distress call to our Department. | | | As the flies soup up the goo, they become contaminated with spores and transport them to some other likely site that takes their fancy. |
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http://www.uoguelph.ca/%7Egbarron/GASTEROS/dictyoph.htm
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| | As the egg matures the plant swells with water and lengthens rapidly, emit- | | | To identify the Stinkhorn, look for a pink foamy- |
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http://wildflowers.jdcc.edu/Stinkhorn.html
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| | BartPhoto: Stinkhorn |
| | The Stinkhorn is a fungus that spreads its spores by the sticky fluid that insects love. | | | In this photo, the flies have, within a few minutes, nearly eating all the dark | | | oily fluid off this tip of this Stinkhorn. |
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http://www.bartphoto.net/flora/fungi.htm
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| | Elegant Stinkhorn |
| | This red to pink, pointy-tipped, cylindrical stinkhorn is 4 to 7 inches tall, 5/8 to 1 inch across, covered with greenish-brown slime toward the tip when young. | | | Note the white, egg-like immature stinkhorn in front of the base of the mature one | | | You can find this very common mushroom in cultivated areas throughout the eastern half of North America in the second half of the summer. |
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http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/Mushrooms.Folder/Elegant%20Stinkhorn.html
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| | Clathrus ruber |
| | The rotting smell attracts flies, which probably help spread the spores as they investigate for food. | | | Apparently stinkhorns are edible in the egg stage, but I can't imagine wanting to try it. | | | It bears a family resemblance to the genus Phallus, or common stinkhorn, and like its cousin starts from a spherical egg with a gelatinous interior. |
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http://www.rrich.com/msclathrusruber.html
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| | dog stinkhorn - definition of dog stinkhorn in General |
| | dog stinkhorn - a stinkhorn having a stalk without a cap; the slimy gleba is simply plastered on its surface near the apex where winged insects can find it | | | dog stinkhorn - definition of dog stinkhorn in General | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://dictionary.laborlawtalk.com/dog_stinkhorn
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| | IPR :: View topic - Return of the Elegant Stinkhorn |
| | They were growing in the woodchips in front of the store at a local field... | | | The raging dog stiffy of yard fungus is back for another exclusive engorgement. | | | Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:13 pm Post subject: Return of the Elegant Stinkhorn |
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http://www.paintballresource.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=7774
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| | ajc.com Living Ask Walter Reeves ajc.com |
| | It depends on flies to spread its spores, which explains the overpowering odor it uses to attract them. | | | Q: A mulched area under one of my trees has a large number of stinkhorns in it. | | | A: A stinkhorn is a type of mushroom that appears in damp hardwood mulch, emerging from an egg-shaped sac. |
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http://www.ajc.com/living/content/living/homeandgarden/reeves/073004.html
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| | SEPT2002 |
| | One egg produced a full grown stinkhorn by the end of the lecture. | | | Many years ago when I taught a course on fungi, an hour or two before the lecture, I put an egg of Mutinus ravenelii nested in a beaker of wet Kleenex, took it into the lecture room and left it on the bench. | | | However, as you can well imagine, this attracted a lot more interest than my lecture so I didn't do it again! |
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http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISCE2002/sept2002.htm
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| | Stinkhorn Fungus: CT hill in pine/oak woods |
| | I'm surprised you're seeing this species so far north." | | | Tom Volk wrote, "Looks like you've got one of the stinkhorns, probably Clathrus. |
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http://waddell.ci.manchester.ct.us/nature-center/images/fungus/fungus-slideshow-8-01/index.htm
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Stinkhorn |
| | Stinkhorn, fungus known for its putrid odor, distantly related to the puffball mushroom. | | | The stinkhorn is found in open woods, in fields, and on... | | | Exclusively for MSN Encarta Premium Subscribers--quickly search thousands of articles from magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The Atlantic Monthly, and Smithsonian. |
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http://ca.encarta.msn.com/Stinkhorn.html
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| | Dictionary of Plants - stinkhorn |
| | The spores of the stinkhorn are dispersed by flies. | | | The flies are attracted by the its corpselike aroma and feed on the spore-containing slime at its tip. |
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http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/plants/data/m0019925.html
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Stinkhorn |
| | The stinkhorn is found in open woods, in... | | | Stinkhorn, fungus known for its putrid odour and phallic shape, distantly related to the puffball mushroom. | | | Help with Spanish, French, German, and Italian homework. |
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http://uk.encarta.msn.com/Stinkhorn.html
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| | Stinkhorn |
| | Stinkhorn (n.) A kind of fungus of the genus Phallus, which emits a fetid odor. | | | This is the definition of the term Stinkhorn | | | This is a test ad, modified from what paypal uses |
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