Veiled lady
Phallus indusiatus · 长裙竹荪
Occasional鬼笔科🍽 Cultivated Edible
A commercially cultivated edible fungus. Buy wild specimens only through reputable, regulated sources.
The same species can be described differently across regions and stages of maturity, and countless look-alike species cannot be told apart by eye. Never use the information on this page to judge whether a real mushroom is safe to eat.
How to Tell
- Stem white and spongy, topped with a foul-smelling olive-green spore cap
- A white net-like skirt hangs from beneath the cap, unfurling like a dress
- Grows in bamboo and hardwood forests, emerging from a white "egg"
ID notes are compiled by AI from public sources, not reviewed by a mycologist, for learning only — never a basis for foraging.
Basics
- Family
- 鬼笔科
- Hymenium
- Gleba
- Grows On
- Leaf Litter
- How Big
- 10–20 cm (cap diameter)
- Encounter Rate
- Occasional
- Habitat
- Humus in bamboo groves
Easily Confused With
Common stinkhornStem white and spongy, topped with a slimy olive-green spore capFun Fact
It emerges at dawn, unfurls its snow-white lace skirt within hours, then collapses and dissolves by afternoon — a bamboo fungus lives its whole life in under a day.