Strange alien fungi with clear gel?

[JamPan]

I'm not too bad at identifiying a few forest fungi, but I've never seen anything like this before.

Does anyone know what this is?

I saw it on Friday attached to a very rotten spongey bit of birch.

I thought it was a cracked goose egg at first and thought it was a strange place for it to be in the middle of the forest.
It was secured onto the rotten wood much more than a bracket fungus like a birch polypore would be.

The white outer was quite rubbery. The inner yellow was as tough as poking a small potato with a stick, and it was surrounded by clear gel.

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[Mafro]

Looks like the egg form of the stink horn. Phallus impudicus.

 

[JamPan]

Yes it does look like that checking google images. Think you've nailed it there!

 

[Toddy]

Witch's egg ?

M

 

[Janne]

It is delicious in its early stage, before it gets "excited" !

 

[JamPan]

Would you eat the goo too or just the hard yellow bit?

 

[Nice65]

Would you eat the goo too or just the hard yellow bit?

Or none of it. I don't think that's a foraged food for me.

 

[Janne]

You eat it when it is in the early egg stage. Before the "phallus" forms.
Fried on butter and salt.
Central European wild food.

 

[Janne]

Or none of it. I don't think that's a foraged food for me.

The smell develops after the phallus / fruiting body raises proudly.

 

[Nice65]

The smell develops after the phallus / fruiting body raises proudly.

Yep, I can tell if there's one anywhere near me in the woods if the wind brings the smell my way, I quite enjoy tracking them down. But you wouldn't get me eating the early stage 'egg', it just isn't food, it's mushroom mucous.

 

[Janne]

Tastes are different!
Personally I steer clear of anything with truffles in it.

 

[JamPan]

I went into the forest this evening, to actually look for my hat I left behind the other day. Luckily I found it, and also found a phallic version with it's interesting aroma and covered in flies lapping it up.

 

[Janne]

Place a piece of a well matured Limburger in the garden and watch the fly population of the county descend!
(Eat the rest. Delicious!)