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One of our more exotic stinkhorns, this is one of the few North American species to sport an "indusium", a lacy "skirt" that circles the stalk just below the stinking head. The unexpanded "egg"s look like small puffballs, but they have a rootlike rhizomorph attached to them; and when you cut them in half, you can see the unexpanded stinkhorn.
Like all stinkhorns, it expands very fast when its time has come, and can be seen here breaking out of the wax paper bag of someone who collected an egg and didn't attend to it.
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