Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>A Stinkhorn Triple! - <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/iNaturalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>iNaturalist</span></a> observation of the Week <a href="https://www.inaturalist.org/blog/96381-a-stinkhorn-triple-observation-of-the-week-7-2-24" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">inaturalist.org/blog/96381-a-s</span><span class="invisible">tinkhorn-triple-observation-of-the-week-7-2-24</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fungi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fungi</span></a> </p><p>"<a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Stinkhorn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Stinkhorn</span></a> fungal <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/FruitingBodies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FruitingBodies</span></a> are pretty fantastical in appearance, with their well, phallic, stalks and lacy veils, but many of us would notice them first by odor. Their <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/spores" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>spores</span></a> are contained in a thick, fragrant substance called gleba, and the smell attracts <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/insects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>insects</span></a>. The insects crawl around in the gleba, which sticks to their bodies and later falls off after they’ve moved away."</p>