color photo of a cut open egg of an immature Aseroe rubra, the Anemone Stinkhorn fungus. It looks so meaty and pink and slimy and poopy and lacy all at once and I'm finding it hard to describe. It's sitting on a silver surface with bits of dirt and tiny millipedes scattered about since when I cut it open, it was a nursery for baby millipedes, and they are scattered throughout the specimen, tho mostly in the bottom rooted part of it. It didn't reek of literal shitty sewage death yet, because it is immature, but you can see the poop colored blobs in the center which is the gleba or spore mass, which tends to reek as it gets old, so as to attract flies and insects to spread the spores. just to the right of this strange alien-looking pink fingery and brown shelled split egg is another even younger specimen, which has a gelatinous whitish clear inside filling with the gleba at the center; no pink arms show at this stage of development. The pink bits eventually enlarge and burst out of the top of the egg and thrust outwards in a crazy fleshy manner, resembling an anemone, hence the name. Stinkhorns are fascinating fungi, and also repulsive. I love them?
heart full of worms.... errrr immature Aseroe rubra fungi egg cut open to reveal that it is a nursery for millipedes.
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Stuff of nightmares. Sorry, not sorry.
