Does anyone know the species of this mushroom which I found on the on the UT Knoxville campus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its morphology is curiously suspicious and I suspect that humans might be involved, somehow, in its reproduction.

Looks like a close cousin of the Phallus drewesii. Regardless, it's in the Phallales order of fungi, so I'd start my search there.

Good guess, but that one grows in the tropics (a la West Africa) and is only two inches long.

This one was about 6-8 inches and was seen in Knoxville TN on a chilly spring morning.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=phallales

iNow.

 

I was under the (wrong) impression that there was just one type of Phallus shroom....the 2 incher that was discovered recently in West Africa.

I thought that this one was a completely divergent species.

 

Thanks for pointing this out.