"Most great scientists have prizes named after them. Or university buildings.
Not Bob Drewes, a Palo Alto resident and one of the world's leading experts on African reptiles. Drewes has been forever immortalized with something that may have other researchers glancing over with envy — or chuckles. A mushroom named after a part of the male anatomy. His anatomy.
In the scientific equivalent of the full monty, one of Drewes colleagues discovered a new species of mushroom in the tiny nation of São Tomé, a tropical island off West Africa. He named it Phallus drewesii."
Paul Rogers reports for the San Jose Mercury News June 11, 2009.
"Genus Envy? Phallic Mushroom Wins Immortality for California Scientist"
Source: San Jose Mercury News, 06/15/2009