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[Rich]

Can anyone help ID this for Adrian

http://www.swog.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/DSC01708.jpeg

There are no prizes for saying a £2 coin.

If we don't get a consensus, the best place I have found is the http://www.ispot.org.uk/ website, run by the open university

[RichardKing]

Some kind of fungi.

The best place I know of is http://arbtalk.co.uk/forum/fungi-pictures/

Where they have some world class fungi experts

[David H]

It looks very much like the early stage of the stink horn fungi, guessing you found this slighty underground ?

Dave

[jillybean]

Yes, its a stinkhorn allright, Phallus Impudicus to be precise. try Visual fungi, its a great site.