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Chinese Name: Red Ghost Pen

Latin Name: Phallus rubicundus (Bosc.) Fr.

Chinese Alias: Crimson Ghost Pen

Classification: Ghost Pen Order, Ghost Pen Family, Ghost Pen Genus

Morphological Characteristics: The fruiting body is medium or large, 10-20cm high. 10-20cm. cap nearly bell-shaped, with reticulated lattice, with gray-black foul-smelling mucus (sporophore), light red to orange-red, covered with mucus, flat at the top, red, and with aperture, cap 1.5-3cm high, 1-1.5cm wide. stalk spongy, red, 9-19cm long, 1-1.5cm thick, cylindrical, hollow, the lower part is thicker, pale to white, and darker on top, with a reddish orange-red to dark red near the top. Near the top, orange-red to deep red. The butt is elastic, white, 2.5-3cm long, 1.5-2cm thick, and the spores are ellipsoid, colorless, 3.5-45μm×2-2.3μm.

Ecological habit: It grows in clusters in summer and autumn in the vegetable gardens, beside the houses, along the roadside, and in bamboo forests, etc. It grows mostly in humusy soil, with a lot of humus, which can be used as a source of food. It grows mostly in places with much humus.

Distribution areas: Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan, Guizhou, Hunan, Henan, Hubei, Hong Kong, Tibet, Shaanxi, Xinjiang, Gansu, Hebei, Liaoning, Heilongjiang and so on.

Economic use: the mucus on the surface of the cap of this fungus is fishy, there are thought to be poisonous or suspected of being poisonous.