An Elegant Stinkhorn? Looks more like a ....

[mud411]

I got my first Elegant Stinkhorn this year, I had 8 Volva growing under my Astible plant. Totally gross and smelly too. Got great pix of it tho. Local Extention office shed light on it for me! Quite and interesting creation!

[hollyspry]

The Elegant Stinkhorns in my region have no offensive odor, just slighty sickly sweet & earthy. I think the Mutinis Caninus smell really awful, but all of the Elegans I've found aren't offensive at all.

[Muffintop2k7]

That thing smells HORRIBLE. how could you even hold it that close to you?! with me standing like 5ft away from it, i can still smell it's terrible stench. ugh. those things scare me.