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Daintree Rainforest
Fungi
photographed at Thylogale
by David & Diane Armbrust
Stinkhorn
Mushroom
Dictyophora indusiata

This very beautiful, phallic shaped mushroom, has an
unpleasant, decaying flesh odour which attract large numbers of flies. The
spores of the mushroom stick to the legs and bodies of these flies and are
widely dispersed.
Size
Up to 20 Centimetres.
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