Timothy Norton wrote:Found in my garden pathway this morning.
Take a sniff. If I'm correct, it is a stinkhorn, AKA phallus impudicus. and wow, the Latin name is really suggestive of its shape, isn't it? Here is the Wiki on it:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phallus_impudicus#:~:text=Phallus%20impudicus%2C%20known%20colloquially%20as,names%20in%2017th%2Dcentury%20England.
I'm French but I never saw them there, or heard of them being eaten there. [I suppose if you pick it at the "devil's eggs" stage, before it becomes carrion smelling, they might not stink as much, and if you are hungry, it might even be edible].
I had a whole lot of them one year, even some with a small hole at the top.
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