Mutinus Ravenelli (Mutinus ravenelii) photo and description

Mutinus ravenelii (Mutinus ravenelii)

• Morel smelly

• Mutinus revanella
• Morel smelly

Description:

: passes through two stages – a light elongated pointed egg 2-3 cm in size under a thin yellowish membranous skin contains a bright, red-pink rudiment of the “leg”, covered with a delicate white film. The egg is broken by two lobes, from where a porous hollow “leg” 5-10 cm long and about 1 cm in diameter rises pinkish in color with a thickened tuberculate red-crimson tip approximately from the middle. When ripe, the tip of Mutinus Ravenell is covered at the end with a thick brown-olive smooth, smeared spore-bearing mucus. The fungus emits an unpleasant, strong smell of carrion, which attracts insects, mainly flies.

: porous and very delicate.

Habitat:

From the last decade of June to September, Mutinus Ravenelli grows on humus-rich soil in deciduous forests, in gardens, near rotting wood, in shrubs, in damp places, after and during warm rains, in a group, not often in the same place, as and previous species, rare.

Edibility:

Mutinus Ravenelli – inedible mushroom

The similarity:

Mutinus Ravenelli is very similar to dog mutinos (Mutinus caninus). Even specialists who did not expect such a tropical gift for twenty years, until 1977, could not distinguish them. It was made by the Latvian mycologists. At present, several external differences can be pointed out. At the first stage, the ovoid fruiting body of this species is torn into two petals. Mutinus Ravenelli has a brighter, raspberry shade of the tip, the tip itself is thickened, and in the canine mutinus, the diameter of the tip is no larger than the rest of the stem. The spore-bearing mucus (gleba) of Ravenelli’s mutinus is smooth, not cellular.