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I removed the word 'amazingly' from the start of the sentence: "Amazingly, the immature stinkhorn 'egg' is enjoyed and eaten in France...". That doesn't strike me as particularly amazing, and Wikipedia should avoid sensationalist language where possible. Terraxos 20:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC) It may be amazing for people who do not know that immature stinkhorn egg does not stink; it has a faint odour which is not unplesant.-- Georgius ( talk) 11:13, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Has something gone wrong with the layers in the following text, which I have replaced in the article? Are there not too many layers here?
Or have I misunderstood it?
I don't think that the smell is that of dung - it is much less pleasant. It is sickly sweet, sharp and stinging. I understand that it is the same as the stink of very rotten meat/carrion, but I must admit that I have never smelt meat in such an advanced state of putrefaction.
Strobilomyces 20:12, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
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while not being offensive to general readers, it strikes me that it would be interesting to know what these strange and wondrous fungi were called in the past, however bawdy their names. To allude to the names and not give them seems teasing.
I took a good picture of a Phallus impudicus fruiting in my garden, and have taken the liberty of replacing the P. ravenelii image (which, incidentally, graces all of the articles regarding this Genus which I have viewed). (Note the ridge network on the upper surface of the cap, distinguishing it from the P. ravenelii; also, this specimen fruited in north-central Colorado, further confirming its identity as P. impudicus.) JFH78 ( talk) 20:08, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Here in Finland we have a red-topped stinkhorn, also called Phallus Impudicus. The top is a very bright carmine red. Is it a variety of this, or maybe a separate species? -- Janke | Talk 07:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
This is nonsense
"Phallus impudicus is able to exert enough pressure to grow through asphalt and have been calculated to produce a force of up to 1.33 kN/m2 (enough for one mushroom to support 133 kg).[7]"
"a force of up to 1.33 kN/m2" - Newton per square meter is a pressure, not a force. One mushroom could provide 1330 N of lift only if it had lifting surface area of 1m^2; which it does not. The article it links to contains this mistake too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.47.220.130 ( talk) 01:59, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure what the second-to-last sentence of the "spore dispersal" paragraph means - it currently reads "the proximity to badger carcasses entices the flies to lay their eggs and help ensure that they are more quickly eliminated, removing a potential source of disease." Specifically, what does "they" refer to in "they are more quickly eliminated"? The carcasses? The flies? The eggs? Presumably not the fungi. Similarly, what would get the disease if this elimination didn't occur? Badgers, flies or fungi? Finally, "help" should be "helps" if the subject of the sentence is "proximity", but I can't say for certain whether it is as things stand. Tevildo ( talk) 21:19, 15 June 2016 (UTC)
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Did you know?" column on
July 15, 2007. The text of the entry was: Did you know ...that a "witch's egg" (pictured), the immature form of the
carrion-odoured
common stinkhorn, is eaten in parts of
France and
Germany? |
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I removed the word 'amazingly' from the start of the sentence: "Amazingly, the immature stinkhorn 'egg' is enjoyed and eaten in France...". That doesn't strike me as particularly amazing, and Wikipedia should avoid sensationalist language where possible. Terraxos 20:48, 9 July 2007 (UTC) It may be amazing for people who do not know that immature stinkhorn egg does not stink; it has a faint odour which is not unplesant.-- Georgius ( talk) 11:13, 18 March 2010 (UTC)
Has something gone wrong with the layers in the following text, which I have replaced in the article? Are there not too many layers here?
Or have I misunderstood it?
I don't think that the smell is that of dung - it is much less pleasant. It is sickly sweet, sharp and stinging. I understand that it is the same as the stink of very rotten meat/carrion, but I must admit that I have never smelt meat in such an advanced state of putrefaction.
Strobilomyces 20:12, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
References
while not being offensive to general readers, it strikes me that it would be interesting to know what these strange and wondrous fungi were called in the past, however bawdy their names. To allude to the names and not give them seems teasing.
I took a good picture of a Phallus impudicus fruiting in my garden, and have taken the liberty of replacing the P. ravenelii image (which, incidentally, graces all of the articles regarding this Genus which I have viewed). (Note the ridge network on the upper surface of the cap, distinguishing it from the P. ravenelii; also, this specimen fruited in north-central Colorado, further confirming its identity as P. impudicus.) JFH78 ( talk) 20:08, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
Here in Finland we have a red-topped stinkhorn, also called Phallus Impudicus. The top is a very bright carmine red. Is it a variety of this, or maybe a separate species? -- Janke | Talk 07:38, 13 February 2009 (UTC)
This is nonsense
"Phallus impudicus is able to exert enough pressure to grow through asphalt and have been calculated to produce a force of up to 1.33 kN/m2 (enough for one mushroom to support 133 kg).[7]"
"a force of up to 1.33 kN/m2" - Newton per square meter is a pressure, not a force. One mushroom could provide 1330 N of lift only if it had lifting surface area of 1m^2; which it does not. The article it links to contains this mistake too. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.47.220.130 ( talk) 01:59, 23 January 2010 (UTC)
I'm not sure what the second-to-last sentence of the "spore dispersal" paragraph means - it currently reads "the proximity to badger carcasses entices the flies to lay their eggs and help ensure that they are more quickly eliminated, removing a potential source of disease." Specifically, what does "they" refer to in "they are more quickly eliminated"? The carcasses? The flies? The eggs? Presumably not the fungi. Similarly, what would get the disease if this elimination didn't occur? Badgers, flies or fungi? Finally, "help" should be "helps" if the subject of the sentence is "proximity", but I can't say for certain whether it is as things stand. Tevildo ( talk) 21:19, 15 June 2016 (UTC)