The turn of the year seems an apt time to post this photo, thinking of the Regenerative Spirit of the Year…
Stinkhorn: 1st Oct 2019
Apologies to anyone whose sensibilities are offended… but it is a natural phenomenon 🙂
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This is wonderful Crispina thank you! 😀 ❤
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Glad you like… I was hesitant, yet it’s such an apt image of the new year’s renewal.
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Phallic. First thing that comes to mind. But of course then it would… Gotta love Sunday Fungi Porn with Crispina!
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Thanks. And I laugh. I was going to couple it (excuse the expression) with a shot of fungi that looke exceedingly like nipples… erect. But I that might be taking it too far. With this… well, it’s symbolism, obviously. 🙂
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Ya should have, you saucy wench!
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That might have been a step too far 🙂
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😂🤣
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A symbolism not lost on me!
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Yea, no matter our sexual persuasions, it still takes the phallus to fertilise the seed.
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What do they call this funguy?
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It’s a stinkhorn. It exudes a sticky substance that smells of something rotten, which attract the flies, which them spread the spores. Although fairly common they’re not easy to see. Yet I can walk through a woodland, and not be paying any mind, when I’ll stop and declare, There’s a stinkhorn some place near. Then begins the hunt for it. That smell to me is evocative of late autumnal decay… from which new life arises 🙂
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Aw, the rot and stench of new beginnings!
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Exactly. For me, it just typifies the late autumn season.
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Yep, I was right about which one it would be 🙂 I’ve never actually seen one, only in pictures!
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Not the easiest to see, they like to hide amongst brambles and nettles. But follow the nose… it’s a smell that cannot be taken as anything else.
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Make sense for you to post this. Violet put it nicely. Happy New Year.
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I thank you, Jen 🙂
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The shape is no problem for me. But that smell! …
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Redolent of rotten meat, so it’s said. But I don’t find it so. More… rotten vegetation. Which in late autumn is to be expected. Maybe it’s just my sense of smell.
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Whichever it certainly offended my sensibilities. Though it was many years back and can’t recall the exact scent, I can visualise the wood we where we encountered it though. Odd thing, memory.
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Our sense of smell is keenly involved in memory. The smell of may blossoms recalls acutely my first sexy kiss. And a certain aftershave will have me in tears in the memory of loss. As to the smell of beef stew… school dinners, vomitous! Can’t about McDonalds for same reason.
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Not for me. My sense of smell is not very acute. An odour has to be pretty strong to register much.
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I’ll put money on your brain registers it, but you’re not aware. Our brains do loads of stuff without telling us. They receive and react a half second before they tell us. I’m still trying to accommodate the full implications of that one. 🙂
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Doesn’t it figure that a phallic-shaped fungi would also stink?
Love this, Crispina!
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Oooh. 🙂 Yet one wonders the evolutionary process that brought it to such form.
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Indeed
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See the way our minds work… 🙂
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😊
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Is this meant to make me think of something?
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Can you honestly say you’ve not seen an erect phallus of any kind, be it drawing, sculpture, graffiti, attached to a dog, a horse, a ram, a bull… it need not be a man’s. And regeneration isn’t possible without some wherewithal to deliver the needed male chromosomes.
No intent to offend, but this is nature without any veils 🙂
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I was trying to be funny.
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Oops! Do you want me to delete that off? The reason I responded as I did is I have a friend who found it offensive.
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Don’t worry about it 🙂
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My nod to you 🙂
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I could mention certain battery powered devices that have a similar shape…
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Apparently *friend* hasn’t seen those. 🙂
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Nice specimen! And actually not as anatomically accurate as some that I’ve seen. (snicker snicker)
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Yea, I have to say, I’d stay well away from a specimen that looked like that. 🙂
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