does anyone know the species of this mushroom?

[DrDNA]

Does anyone know the species of this mushroom which I found on the on the UT Knoxville campus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its morphology is curiously suspicious and I suspect that humans might be involved, somehow, in its reproduction.

[iNow]

Looks like a close cousin of the Phallus drewesii. Regardless, it's in the Phallales order of fungi, so I'd start my search there.

[DrDNA]

Good guess, but that one grows in the tropics (a la West Africa) and is only two inches long.

This one was about 6-8 inches and was seen in Knoxville TN on a chilly spring morning.

[iNow]

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=phallales

[DrDNA]

iNow.

 

I was under the (wrong) impression that there was just one type of Phallus shroom....the 2 incher that was discovered recently in West Africa.

I thought that this one was a completely divergent species.

 

Thanks for pointing this out.