Mutinus caninus Bashny.Net

Today we talk about the unusual and not very pleasant to look at the mushroom that is called mutinus caninus. This mushroom grows from the last decade of June to September in deciduous forests with a rich humus soil, in the bushes, around rotting wood in damp places, after the warm rains, the group is not often on the same site.

The kingdom of fungi has between 100 000 and 250 000 species that were able to take its place in all biological niches - in the water and on land, in the soil and at various other substrates. Among them mushroom, very unusual in appearance - mutinus. The most common representatives of this type are mutinus caninus and mutinus ravenelii. Both fungus experiencing two stages: first, when they have an egg shape ("witch balls") and the second when they break in half and there is a cylindrical hollow spongy "leg" with a pointed tip of a thin small tubercles.

When ripe, the tip is covered with brown and olive cellular slime that attracts insects. It should gnaw insect Hleb (inner part of the fruit body with an unpleasant odor), the tip of the fruiting body turns orange and then all the fruiting body will begin to decompose; After three or four days from the fungus does not remain anything.