Dull orange with slightly green zoning, approx. 6cm diameter. Orange stems and gills with orange sap. Baby ones start off green.
Small mushrooms growing among leaf litter and wood debris. White-grey caps, exocentric stems, decurrent gills, pink spore-print.
Popped up in mulched soil after major soil moving and heavy mulchin in 2014. Multiple fruiting bodies in 2015, couple reappeared in 2016, nothing since (at May 2018). Have sine spoken to mushroom foragers in the area and heard of it being associated with Leucadendron coniferum habitat and near De Goede Hoop estate. Someone else mentioned a historical record from Muizenberg but I was never able to track down a reference. I've ever had my soil tested but the garden is on what was the mobile sand corridor from Fish Hoek/Clovelly in the "gap" to Noordhoek, but also has Sandstone present, so is likely a mix of soils varying across small distances.
Red stinkhorn with long spore-bearing arms growing in leaf-litter.
After some early flushes we now find less than we used to during May of the previous years...
Sandy soils on the edge of a seasonal wetland.