When the nights are a little cooler, the soil is moist and there is so much decaying material like roots and heavy wood mulch, these nasty fungi get my phone ringing. Stinkhorns occur naturally ...

Fungi photographer Steve Axford takes us inside his 'fungarium' to watch it bloom. Stinkhorn fungi are both beautiful and gross all at the same time. This bizarre fungus can pop up suddenly when ...

True to their name, Stinkhorn Mushrooms emit a pungent odor that is unmistakable once you’re familiar with it. “You’ll usually smell a stinkhorn before you see it,” Corbett says.

Even wrapped in paper, the stench of the aptly named stinkhorn mushrooms was overpowering, but the woman stifled a laugh upon overhearing two other passengers gripe about the swarm of flies around ...

The mushroom has also been spotted in Oklahoma and in Japan, CBS News reports. The fungus was first found in Austin in 1893 and is a known inhabitant of the River Legacy Park in Arlington ...

Gardeners will encounter fungi that cause all sorts of problems in fruit (fruit rots), in roots (Phytophthora), and in stems and on leaves. Often preventative gardening will reduce the problems ...

Image courtesy of Bhathiya Gopallawa. Unlike typical mushrooms that rely on the wind for spore dispersal, stinkhorns use insects, especially flies, as their carriers. The tip of the mushroom is ...