Phallus rubicundus at a guess - the name says it all really!

never heard of that - hmm.

Good grief! I have met impudicus but never this one. Perhaps not in Europe? It certainly doesn't appear in the Roger Phillips fungi "bible".

Interesting, I've met impudicus too but not seen this one before either Cestina... a quick Google search show it is in Eastern and Southern USA and also in Asia and Africa, which would explain why we haven't seen.

That's interesting ... I've just googled it, and apparently it is becoming quite common in the eastern USA, especially where bark chippings are used as a mulch. It is thought that it might have been introduced into the States by an importer of tropical bark.

IT's very strange. It attracts a lot of flies, then falls off, but another one grows during the night. Thank you for identifying it for me. Now I can do some research.

Is it as smelly as impudicus? Does that to attract the flies to pollenate. We get P impudicus in the garden occasionally and usually smell it before we see it.

I have only begun to see this fungus on my property with the past three years. Before that, never.

the smell attracts flies that carry the spores[seed] to oteher areas MG. as a fungus it doesn't flower. but its easy to see why it is named isn't it.

Yup we know SBG... vey smelly!

never had them locally to us, the uk forms that is. wish we did they are amazing.