It turns out that the Stinkhorn eggs we found yesterday are not Phallus impudicus, but rather Phallus hadriani. According to the Mushroom Expert, the difference is in the color of the egg; impudicus is yellowish and hadriani is purplish.
Also, the smell is apparently one of decaying flesh, not dog poop as I previously thought.
So... a phallic mushroom that smells of decaying carrion and attracts flies? Who wouldn't want that in their garden?
Ugh.
We didn't wait for it to "bloom"--Cindy dug up all of them she could find and put them in the trash.
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