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Stinky squids on a tree!

The Urban Pantheist discovers some stinky squid fungus near Ward's Pond:

... Like all stinkhorns, stinky squid is a striking mushroom, as unusual to look at as it is unpleasant to smell. Carrion-eating insects are attracted to the foetid odor produced by the slimy gray-green spore mass. The tentacle-like fronds presumably help increase the available surface area to the flies and beetles that spread the spores. ...

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...they aren't stinky, but I get squids on a tree in my yard every year.

Cedar Apple Rust. I never knew what it was until I read a Chet Raymo article about it in the Globe.

P.S.: Uh-oh.

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