The fruiting body of a stinkhorn fungus emerges from the ground as an egg-like structure. It then splits open, revealing a stalk with a number of coloured arms. This species, Anthurus archeri, is growing in a clump of moss in native forest. Stinkhorn fungi produce a smelly mucus mass full of spores at the base of their arms. Flies feed on the stinking mucus and in so doing help to spread the spores.
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Department of Conservation
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10054600
Photograph by Dick Veitch
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IanR (not verified)
15 May 2012
Pink flower-like stinkhorns
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02 May 2011
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