Red Cage - Clathrus ruber

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

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

Spores oliver-brown.