A really fun gi redux
In August, I blogged about fungus. (If you get that mixed up, you could say I fogged about blungus.) I promised I’d share about a weird growth that sometimes turns up in my yard — and it has!
Turns out this whiffle-ball-type thing is Clathrus ruber — a kind of stinkhorn. Apparently, it shows up on decaying tree roots, and the smell attracts flies. Then it just disappears. That would explain why it always shows up in the same general area — right at the base of a scrub pine tree that didn’t make it after Hurricane Wilma two years ago.
Mystery solved!
