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I’ve always enjoyed mushrooms; now there may even be more reason to do so. A new mushroom species has been named after the human anatomy – the male anatomy. Dennis Desjardin discovered the two inch species in the jungles of São Tomé, a tropical island off West Africa, while on an expedition with a group of scientists.
Desjardin, a mushroom expert and biology professor at San Francisco State, named the species after the team leader and his best friend, Bob Drewes. Drewes is a Palo Alto Resident, one of the world’s leading experts on African reptiles, and curator of herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences.
Phallus drewesii is the moniker of our newest mushroom species, or in English: Drewes’ penis. Phallus drewesii (okay, I just wanted to write it again) is the second smallest known in the genus, grows sideways (limp, if you will), releases a rank odor, grows on wood, and is a fly magnet.
I wonder just how good of friends Drewes and Desjardin really are.
The risqué new species will be unveiled this month on the cover of Mycologia, a top scientific journal of fungi.
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