Purple-Spored Puffball - This puffball is certainly shaped like a skull, and you really have to wait until the purple spores form before you can be sure this isn't a skull-shaped puffball (which is also edible.) I usually eat the puffball first! The inside is soft and white at first....
While on a night walk we found many Veiled stinkhorns, Phallus indusiatus [the former Dictyophora indusiata seems to be out again after DNA research]. They just had come up, ready for the Amazonian night life. Insects and most of the other creatures are active at night so the stinkhorn...
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While on a night walk we found many Veiled stinkhorns,Phallus indusiatus[the former genusDictyophoraseems to be out of favor after DNA research]. Ecuador's Rain-forest, Feb. 2011.© Daniel Winkler Super-sized inflorescence of one of many Heliconias (Heliconiasp.), a member of the banan...
2013; Desjardin and Perry 2015b), including a new species, Phallus drewesii (Fig. 8.1–5). Order Gomphales Three families comprise the order Gomphales, but only members of the Gomphaceae have been reported from ST&P. The family contains species with funnel-shaped basidiomes with wrinkled ...
To honor Robert Drewes, who has dedicated more than 40 years of his life to research in Africa, and who introduced us to the island nation, we described Phallus drewesii Desjardin & B.A. Perry (Phallaceae, Fig. 8.1– 5) in our premier paper (Desjardin and Perry 2009). Subsequently,...