Slimy Stalked Puffball

Fruiting bodies are round, bright, red spore sacs that are covered with a thick clear jelly and raised up on a spongy red stem.

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Ferdy Christant

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Very cool one, I don't think I've seen anything like it before. Posted 7 years ago
1. Christine Young
  
  Lion
  
  Thanks, it was new for me too. It had an incredibly disgusting texture - like a combination of jello, glue, and snot. Posted 7 years ago

The Stalked puffball-in-aspic

"Calostoma cinnabarinum" is a species of gasteroid fungus in the family Sclerodermataceae, and is the type species of the genus "Calostoma". It is known by several common names, including stalked puffball-in-aspic and gelatinous stalked-puffball.

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Similar species: Boletales

Species identified by Christine Young