As this damp season progresses we have been finding several colonies of stinkhorn fungi. Most of these have been identified as the relatively small Anemone Stinkhorn (Aseroe rubra).
The colony we see most often is next to our drive where there have been a couple of 'outbreaks' of about 6 fruiting bodies at a time. However about 250 metres down the road we found a colony of at least 25 fruiting bodies. The extent of this colony is shone by the red box in this image.
More recently a much larger fruiting body appeared near our drive. That has been identified as
Clathrus archeri (Devils Fingers).
My foot is shown for scale: I measured the arms as approximately 12 cm long from the stipe.
The size of the specimen was part of the identification by a guru from iNaturalist.com. They were also able to assess the presence of the gleba (ie the brown gooze) on the arms.
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