Mushrooms accompany us every day all year round and are everywhere. Sometimes we are happy to use their benefits (e.g. yeast) or fight their effects (e.g. mycoses, gray mold), but we most willingly collect edible mushroom fruiting bodies in the fall. How do mushrooms spread? - mainly by spores, which produce enormous amounts in favorable climatic conditions. One of the interesting ways of dispersing spores uses the phallus impudicus. Young fruiting bodies of this mushroom are spherical - so-called "devil's eggs". On the other hand, the mature white stalk with the cone-shaped cap is covered with black-olive mucus on which flies and even snails accumulate. Why is this happening? Well, this fungus gives off a very strong carcass-like odor that attracts numerous insects, and they eat and spread the spores of this fungus. The disgusting smell can already be felt when you are several dozen meters from the place where the fruiting body of the shameless stinkhorn is ripening. This and other interesting species of mushrooms can now be observed in Roztocze during walks and bicycle trips.
