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FAIRYTALE FUNGI

1 DEVIL’S FINGERS

Clathrus archeri

With the scent of rotten flesh and five to six red starfish-like tentacles, devil’s fingers (or octopus stinkhorn) looks like a visitor from another planet. This antipodean native is relatively rare in the UK but on the rise, thriving in woods and grasslands.

2 STINKHORN

Phallus impudicus

Beginning life in a gelatinous egg, the inside of which

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