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as an orange "wiffle football," it would be clathrus ruber. you wouldn't want to hike it to a friend, however, since its interior surfaces are coated with a foul-smelling slime that attracts flies and other insects (who then disperse the mushroom's spores ). like other stinkhorns, it arises from an "egg
oval ball composed of interlaced branches (reminiscent of latticework on an apple pie); the branches flattened, spongy, roughened, and covered with olive to brownish slime on their inner surfaces; red, pink, or orange; without a stem or with a crude, stubby stem. when young encased in pale eggs; the egg...
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