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Genus Clathrus


Phylum: Basidiomycota
Class: Agaricoymetes
Order: Phallales
Family: Phallaceae
Genus: Clathrus

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clathrus ruber
Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
Dana Street, Palo Alto
March 15, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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clathrus ruber
Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
Dana Street, Palo Alto
March 16, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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clathrus ruber
Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
Eleanor Pardee Park
March 16, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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clathrus ruber
Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
Eleanor Pardee Park
March 16, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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clathrus ruber
Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
Eleanor Pardee Park
March 16, 2020
Canon 7Dmark2

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Clathrus ruber

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Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
taken May 19, 2005 near Stanford oval
with thanks to David Muir who introduced me to this remarkable fungus
(Canon Digital Rebel)

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Check out those fenestrations.

clathrus

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Emerging from white "fungus egg".

clathrus

Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
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2011

taken near Hoover Tower

clathrus

After being introduced to Clathrus in 2005, I have encountered it in a number of places, most notably outside of the California Academy of Sciences in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco and in various locations on the Stanford campus. Sometimes they occur in great profusion and continuously for long periods of time. In terms of color, some of the most beautiful ones I have ever seen were those very first ones. Despite their spectacular red or orange color, most people walk right by them without ever noticing. They only see them when they see me stooped over to take their picture and often not even then.

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Nature's soccer ball

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Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
taken near Hoover Tower
October 8, 2011
Canon 50D
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Macrophy

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Clathrus egg

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Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
taken near Hoover Tower
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Cracked-up

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Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
taken near Hoover Tower
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Fly zone

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Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
taken near Hoover Tower
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Serious fly

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Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
taken near Hoover Tower
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Chance discovery

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Red-cage fungus (Clathrus ruber)
Family: Phallaceae (stinkhorns)
Although I keep checking the usual haunts, I had not seen any clathrus in quite a while.
Then I discovered a rather sizeable outcropping in a new locale.
They appeared quite suddenly - and by the next day this large one had completely collapsed.

Along Campus Drive, near the dish
April 14, 2014

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Egg and hatchling

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There are quite a few "eggs" so there should be lots more fungi in the days to come.

Along Campus Drive near the dish
April 14, 2014

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King of the fungus egg

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Along Campus Drive, near the dish
April 19, 2014
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Circum specks

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Along Campus Drive, near the dish
April 19, 2014
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Elementary fungus

clathrus

Walter Hayes Elementary
Embarcadero and Middlefield
Palo Alto
December 20, 2014
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Clathrus close

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Embarcadero and Middlefield
December 20, 2014
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Pale Clathrus

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Embarcadero and Middlefield
December 20, 2014
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Remnants

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Arcadia Place
December 22, 2014
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Clathrus re-emerges

Along Campus Drive, near the dish
April 19, 2014
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Inside clathrus

Along Campus Drive, near the dish
April 19, 2014
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Clathrus collapse

Along Campus Drive, near the dish
April 19, 2014
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Created: May 19, 2005
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