Mutinus ravenelii - The fungus develops underground and appears on the surface as a white, oblong-shaped 15 mm thick, 15 to 20 mm high. Attached to the ground with white mycelium strings. Covered with a hard white cover. Under the cover there is a gelatinous layer covering the spongy stipe with a green mass of spores. During puberty, the outer sheath breaks at the top irregularly or on two lobes tightly adhering to the head, even as if a cap. Then the expanding hearth with the head emerges. The mature fruiting body is composed of a vagina and a long stem with a head. Developed fruit bodies usually fall over. The smell of ripe fruiting bodies resembles the smell of carrion and is very strong, attracting flies participating in the spreading of spores.
Conical head, constricted stem tip, raspberry-colored or raspberry-red. It is covered with a thin dark-olive, viscous, spongy mass of spores often with a raspberry-colored hole in the middle. After ripening, it flows down as a mass of jelly-like consistency, revealing a cavity surface.
Shaft height from 50 to 85 mm and thickness up to 10 mm. Ochowożółtawej colors to raspberry red. The shape is cylindrical, at the base slightly narrowed. It is slightly spindle-shaped, spongy porous, chamber-shaped, winded. Inside empty, fragile.
The pulp is initially whitish, ochraceous, raspberry, raspberry-red, the head darker, even red. Watery, fragile. Strong scent of carrion.
Occurrence: In parks and gardens, under deciduous and coniferous trees, in contaminated bushes, near rubbish dumps. In the summer and autumn, rare.
Value: Unaffected fungus.