stackyFACTSWhy rely on the wind to spread your genes when you can just trick a swarm of blowflies? The phallic stinkhorn mushroom secretes a thick, slimy glaze that smells exactly like a rotting carcass baking in the sun. Flies arrive expecting a dead animal, accidentally cover themselves in spores, and fly away disgusted but deeply useful.
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