Clathrus transvaalensis

https://www.mushroomexpert.com/Clathrus_transvaalensis.html

Ecology: Saprobic; growing alone or gregariously in urban locations, including lawns and golf courses as well as other cultivated areas, and in woodchip beds; January through April; South Africa. The illustrated and described collection is from Gauteng, South Africa.

Immature Fruiting Body: Like a whitish to pinkish or brownish "egg"; when sliced revealing the stinkhorn-to-be encased in a gelatinous substance.

Mature Fruiting Body: 5-10 cm high; 4-7 cm wide; consisting of a mesh of arms, with the lower meshes elongated vertically (almost appearing like supporting columns) and the upper meshes smaller, creating roundish to polygonal spaces.

Arms: Up to about 1 cm thick; hollow; outer surfaces sometimes slightly flattened; densely transversely wrinkled (accordion-like in appearance); grooved between meshes; creamy whitish (especially below) to pinkish or pale salmon.

Volva: Sac-like, encasing the base of the fruiting body; whitish to pinkish, with brownish stains.

Flesh: Composed of tiny tubes; pinkish; brittle.

Spore Slime: Brown; produced on cushion-shaped structures located at the intersections of the arms.

Microscopic Features: Spores 4-5 x 1.5-2 m; subcylindric; smooth; hyaline in KOH. Sphaerocysts of the arms 15-48 m; irregularly subglobose; smooth; walls 0.5-0.75 m thick; hyaline in KOH. Hyphae of the volva 2-4 m wide unless swollen at septa (up to 7 m); smooth; hyaline in KOH.

Asher, my cat, checks out #homegrown #ChestnutMushrooms #edible #mushrooms
Day 23 fungi growth.

My #homegrown #ChestnutMushrooms #edible #mushrooms
Day 23 fungi growth. I've already harvested 12 mushrooms earlier last week from this small container.

My #ChestnutMushrooms are doing real well so far. I've cut away the plastic from sides to let it breathe better. No bad molds spotted so far. Just lots of good #mycelium that's created these baby #edible #mushrooms
Day 10 fungi growth.

The mushroom that almost ate me #mushrooms #shrooms #nature #naturephotography

These guys are quite cosy, Not surprised as its a really cold day. #Shrooms #Photography #WinterGarden

Lmao I'm reading this article about animals eating #magicmushrooms, and this section makes me laugh.

"Do not have anything with magic mushrooms. Don't have it, don't eat it, don't look at it... Disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer... BUT on a completely unrelated note, here's our selection!"

Went through my archive of written stuff and found this weird true story I wrote down after hearing it from a carpenter I spent some time with in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa some years ago! #psychedelics #shrooms #highstrangeness
https://fred-andersson.medium.com/beer-bottle-cap-14a456c8253f

If you love Morel mushrooms, May is the month to search for these delicacies of nature especially in deciduous woods, around Trilliums or other spring flowers. You know it's a real Morel if you slice it and it has a hollow interior, beware the false ones as they can make you sick! This one was found at edge of my pond.
Check it out here
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