“This looks like a mushroom not recorded from Sri Lanka before,” he said — a comment that turned casual curiosity into scientific excitement. After digging through mycological records, the team ...

If you can get past the smell, stinkhorn mushrooms are pretty cool to see. Varying in colors from bright orange, red, white, beige or olive, these mushrooms come in unique shapes as well.

After digging through mycological records, the team identified the specimen as Mutinus bambusinus, a rare stinkhorn mushroom that hadn’t been documented in Sri Lanka in more than a century.

Fungi photographer Steve Axford takes us inside his 'fungarium' to watch it bloom. Stinkhorn fungi are both beautiful and gross all at the same time. This bizarre fungus can pop up suddenly when ...