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

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

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 – ...

If the bleeding part wasn't jarring enough ... David Arora wrote in his 1986 gardening book Mushrooms Demystified that H. peckii fruit bodies have a taste comparable to "Danish pastry topped ...

Bleeding tooth fungus Aside from the dark urban ... Real mycologists (both aspiring and otherwise) will often grow mushrooms from the sides of hanging bags as a way of maximizing limited square ...

Treatises on Chinese medicine vouch that the parasitic fungi can replenish the kidney, soothe the lung, stop bleeding ... fungi in your mug? No, mushroom coffee is a blend of ground mushrooms ...

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 ...

In the meantime, we’d just stick to non-bleeding, regular mushrooms – in fact, garlic miso-butter chestnut mushrooms on sourdough would go down a treat with those martinis. The Penguin airs ...