What is this thing? Tell me about someone you know. It's soft, like a mushroom, with a snot-like liquid goo in the middle, and it smells bad.

This is a lepidoptera fungus, similar to the red umbrella, which has never been seen before. Many fungi of Celastraceae have foul-smelling mucus at the top to attract saprophytic insects to get spores and spread them. It has been recorded that Bidens bipinnata and Nepenthes can be eaten after washing, and the taste is similar to that of dictyophora indusiata, but some people think that these are poisonous. There are no reports of these fungal poisoning, which may be related to their odor.

The larvae of ghost pens and pitcher plants are called bacterial eggs and are often mistaken for snake eggs.

(Cephalosporium rubrum)

(Five-edge ghost pen with scattered tail and its embryo egg)