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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 – ...

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 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 this case a mushroom – and that it is called Bleeding Tooth Fungi. He adds: “The psychoactive compound in the sap creates a potent euphoric stimulant”, or, as Oz correctly surmised ...