#Clathrus ruber

[pinkfeathersart]

Funguary 19 - Red Basket Stinkhorn

Another day, another battle with my art nemesis: the nose. I should really know by now I have a hard time with em. But i had a ✨vision✨ so... And I do really like the way it came out, even though it does kinda remind me of those nets around oranges lol.

[vero-vetka13]

Funguary 2025 week 3

I be catching up 💪 (not sure how I feel about this one... tbh I like my week 1 and 2 a lot more :D)

Featuring! Puffball and red basket stinkhorn

And also their sketches

[starry-tiger]

Funguary 2025: Puffball, Mycena Chlorophos, Pink waxcap, Trukey tail, Red basket stinkhorn, Pixie parasol, Bird's nest, Oyster mushroom, and Fairy ring mushroom.

[drfirsnogayny]

Funguary 2025 Day 19

🍓 Week 3 🏏 Clathrus ruber aka Red basket stinkhorn

He/him

He is the best player in Wiffle ball and he could have a lot of fans, but, alas, not everyone is satisfied with his deodorant.

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[a-dragons-journal]

I am Very frusted and confused and hope that maybe ive just misunderstood something and that you could clarify ... ive started seeing posts asserting that therian = kinning non-human/humanoid animals that exist in meat space (regardless of extinction status) and otherkin = everything other than that. That's not true afaik. As long as ive been in the community Therian has meant either a synonymon for otherkin, a loosely defined portion of the otherkin community that experices mental/spiritual shifts, or a cluster of loosely connected spiritual beliefs surrounding reincarnation, animism, and non-100%-human souls inhabiting human bodies...iirc the first therians to write abt their experiences were elves

I am a fairy but not kin but i like to look in the various blank - kin tags sometimes and like a good chunk of the top posts in fairy kin tags are by non - fairies with large portions of the posts asserting ( supportively not malicously mind you !! ) that fairy kin are some how not therians by Virtue of being capable of being bipedal and superficially Humanoid in shape OR are not therians in some different unique way **other than that a fairy may or may not self identify as a therian**

Have I been wrong abt this for over a decade somehow?

I am however a mushroom kin (Clathrus ruber) to assure you I am not infact some stranger stumbling into things I don't understand

"your mushroom kin but you being a fairy isnt kin ?? how ??" It's a complicated mix of "our brain interprets fairy as too broad of a category/is a loose affiliation of non-human cultures not a single specific species" and irl adoption trauma

Sorry for the delay in answering this!

So... I really hate to say this, but while the thing you're complaining about is inaccurate, the definitions you've presented are also not really historically accurate. ^^;

People saying that therians are earthen animals and otherkin are mythical creatures are wrong on both points. Otherkin has historically been dominantly mythical creatures, yes, but it has always been an umbrella term for all nonhumans, including earthen animals. And while the "earthen animal" myth became popular for a time, therian historically has not been restricted to earthen animals (one of the earliest therians, before the word therian was even popularized when the term was still were, was a werePontiac!).

That being said, therian and otherkin aren't synonymous either. The two aren't defined by shifts - there are therians who don't shift, and many otherkin who do - and there's no inherent spirituality to therianthropy. (And the elves you're thinking of are the Silver Elves, who were the source of the otherkin community, not the therian one. The therian community came out of alt.horror.werewolves (AHWW), a werewolf fangroup, and was dominantly, well, wolves and werewolves from the start.)

The actual distinction, as per community history, is classically that therians are animals, animalistic, whereas otherkin includes sapient, human-like beings as well. An animalistic dragon fits the term therian; a 100% sapient dragon who lived in a city probably doesn't. The same would apply to fae - many faeries are animalistic in some capacity, many are not.

Daski of the River System @indornaga did an excellent project researching, writing up, and presenting the history of the term therian - that would probably be very helpful to you here. Here's the link to that for more details and also sources on most of the things I've said here.

[blogbirdfeather]

Basket Stinkhorn - Clatro-vermelho (Clathrus ruber)

Carnaxide/Portugal (19/02/2025)

[Nikon D7100; AF 105mm Micro-Nikkor F2,8]

[lilium-sakana]

Funguary - Week 3: Red Basket Stinkhorn (Clathrus ruber)

🍄 the egg-like membrane where the fruit body was initially enclosed remains at the base of the mushroom;

🍄 is also known as the "red cage";

🍄 in Italian is called lantern mushroom (fungo lanterna).

[thatmentallystablechick]

The last week of #Funguary begins tomorrow - so for the last prompt for this week, we have Tetrapyrgos!

These little mushrooms can most commonly be found growing out of piles of compost. There are several different species in the Tetrapyrgos family, but the kind specifically shown here are known as Tetrapyrgos Nigripes (they look more like how we think of mushrooms looking, while other breeds of Tetrapyrgos almost look more like little fans).

I definitely took a slightly different approach with this one, what with also having smaller fungi growing out of her body rather than just one giant mushroom cap head (and it turns out drawing really thin veins with markers is actually more difficult than I thought). The urban legends about sirenheads still creep me out as much as ever, too, as you can probably tell by the proportions I gave her (you may recall my Clathrus Ruber artwork from last year, which was pretty similar). Between the mushrooms sprouting from her skin and the hospital gown she’s wearing, I almost feel like she might be some kind of horrifically failed science experiment - maybe even something that escaped from the SCP Foundation, perhaps? 🤔

Made with Ohuhu markers and Shuttle Art pencil crayons

[wtfearth123]

Clathrus ruber is a species of fungus in the family Phallaceae. It is commonly known as the latticed stinkhorn, the basket stinkhorn, or the red cage. The fungus is saprobic and feeds off decaying woody plant material. The fruit body initially appears like a whitish “egg” attached to the ground at the base by cords called rhizomorphs.

[sibellaa]

Some funky fungi I saw the other day at a local nature preserve. Based on the goop and smell, I’m pretty sure they’re Clathrus ruber.

[max1110101]

Clathrus Ruber / latticed sinkhorn

[salmiathedemon]

Ghost + fighting + mushroom shape (im thinking unrestful polteirgeist Clathrus ruber who punch the heck outta you with mushroom looking box gloves.)

pokèmonize yourself!!!!

spin this wheel to see your pokemon type

spin this one to see how you'll look like

[crescentmoonsandroses]

Funguary Day 19: the Red Basket Stinkhorn

Also called Clathrus ruber, the latticed stinkhorn, and the red cage. Being a stinkhorn, it has an odour somewhat like rotten meat, which attracts flies and other insects to help disperse the spores. It feeds off decaying, woody plant material. It starts in an 'egg' form which is burst open y the fruit body as it grows. It's edible in 'egg' form, but its fruit body is not.

[datfearlessfangirl]

you've activated the mushroom beam,,,

okay so. so. a LOT of people know mushrooms and think of the round red ones with the white dots. right? but what if I told you there's *more*

there are a few that a lot of people know, like chanterelles, morels, cordyceps (though probably not by name), button mushrooms are in grocery stores, and shitaki I see relatively frequently too. some people may also know some types of inkcaps, because of their very distinctive quality of starting off white but then slowly "melting" until their caps become dark and dripping!

a lot of the mushrooms I focus on are shelf mushrooms (the ones that grow on the sides of trees and stuff, they create a little shelf. they're more formally recognized as polypores, like how some mushrooms have convex caps. examples of different polypores include turkeytail mushrooms, which are one of my favourites because of their colouration! chicken of the woods is another) (also I PROMISE not all polypores are named after birds lol)

there's also some mushrooms with REALLY WEIRD caps! like bloody tooth mushrooms, which have white caps with these big bulbous red lumps. the latticed stinkhorn (clathrus ruber) is also a really strange one, because its cap is less a cap and more like a geometric net!!

also, not all mushrooms HAVE fruiting bodies. cordyceps is actually a case kind of like that, where it's a buuuunch of these little worm lookin ones. my special interest is more specifically around fruiting fungus, but I do love a good slime mould!

okay to conclude. because this is probably already long enough. mushrooms are super interesting, and can fill a lot of roles! like there's some that are parasitic or otherwise advantageous of the lifeforms they grow on (read: cordyceps <3 <3 which targets bugs like ants and flies, but also some others, like destroying angels that target trees (which can smell very sweet OR like rotting meat when fully matured!!)) and some mushrooms are literally just there. like they're just Around existing and it's so wonderful. and some are good for human consumption, like puffball mushrooms which have started entering the more general awareness as foraging videos start to go viral! (unless that's. just in my spheres, which may be the case)

and a very special shoutout to mushrooms that mimic other mushrooms! it happens A TON which is why you need to be careful when foraging. one of the more obtuse examples are false morels, which mimic actual morels haha!

oh that's so cool i love that!

[blogbirdfeather]

Basket Stinkhorn - Clatro (Clathrus ruber)

Lisboa/Portugal (25/03/2025)

[Nikon D7100; AF 105mm Micro-Nikkor F2,8]

[theflashisgone]

Clathrus ruber

Swiss wunk