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