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“We literally grew some real mushrooms and painted the blood dots on them,” Kalina Ivanov, Penguin ’s production designer, ...

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 – ...

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

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 ...

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.

Bleeding tooth fungus looks like a ghoulish forest crime scene. This type of mushroom called Hydnellum peckii also goes by “devil’s tooth fungus” or the much more pleasant sounding ...