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Fungi: Stinkhorn: Flower Fungus, Whirinaki Forest
Aseroa rubra, about 50 mm tall and 80 mm across. They're a member of the Stinkhorn family and their spores are distributed by flies, hence the fleshy colours. They look like something you would find under the sea rather than on land.
December 1999