Red Cage

Scientific Name: 

Clathrus ruber

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Fruit body egg shaped, white to greyish volva, bursting open to show a lattice, 10x6cm, orange-red with greenish-black spore bearing material on the inside; the mycelium commonly forms into rooting rhizomorphs.

Flesh spongy, rather brittle, smells strong, fetid, attractive to flies.

Spores oliver-brown.

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Uncommon.

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found in gardens and leaf litter, late summer to late autumn.

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