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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 – ...

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 ...

and that's basically what it's called in real life--Bleeding Tooth or Devil's Tooth fungus. Hydnellum peckii is the scientific name. Bleeding Tooth is a particularly striking fungus thanks to the ...

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

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 ...

Bleeding Tooth Fungi, or to give them their binomial name, Hydnellum peckii, are indeed a basidiospore, and they can be found growing in North America, Europe, Iran and Korea. Because of their ...