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The origin of this eerie liquid, however, remains a mystery, sparking fascination among nature lovers and casual hikers alike ...

Like any other fungus, encountering a bleeding tooth increases with time spent looking for it. It’s true I haven’t found one yet in all my years of searching.

A peculiar species of fungus native to much of Canada, known by the scientific name of Hydnellum peckii, has many bizarre colloquial names like "the bleeding tooth fungus" and "the Devil's tooth ...

One of the workers in The Penguin drug lab explains that the white mushroom, oozing little red dots on its cap is a basidiospore – reproductive cells produced by a fungus, in this case a mushroom – ...

Bleeding tooth fungus Aside from the dark urban setting and fictional criminals, though, it's not the most unrealistic sight. Both the method and the fungus itself are very real things.