Mutinus caninus (Huds.) Fr. 1849

Immature Fruiting Bodies: Usually at least partially submerged in the ground, appearing like a whitish to pinkish or purplish "egg" up to 4 cm tall, when sliced revealing the stinkhorn-to-be encased in a gelatinous substance. Mature Fruiting Bodies: 4-15 cm tall and up to 1 cm wide, more or less equal, with a slightly swollen apex, sometimes whitish below with pinkish rose to orange or orange red above, rarely completely white even at the apex, often with clinging whitish volva remnants, with an olive brown to brown slime towards the apex (covering 2-3 cm, the slime quickly becoming foul, and often quickly removed by insects, hollow, spongy, with a whitish, sack like volva at the base.