Fungus among us

[Chasen]

anyone have one of these pop up in their enclosures?

 

[Tom]

Yep. Once in a great while. I use a spoon and scoop out a bunch of the substrate under it after I pull it out and chuck it.

 

[TammyJ]

Makes my skin crawl.

 

[Beasty_Artemis]

Wow! Kind of pretty! I've never seen a cool mushroom like that pop up in Arty's enclosure. I wonder what kind that is!

 

[Maro2Bear]

Yeah we got those in our outdoor flower beds in mid-Summer where I have mulched heavily. Warm, moist conditions, good for shrooms, fungi and tortoises!

• Phallus impudicus, known colloquially as the common stinkhorn, is a widespread fungus recognizable for its foul odor and its phallic shape when mature, the latter feature giving rise to several names in 17th-century England.