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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 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.

Despite being small, this fungus can propel its spores up to 200 meters. At first glance, hair ice looks like delicate white threads on rotting wood. It forms only under specific winter conditions ...

However, we believe someone else might have been behind the creation of the "Bleeding Tooth Fungus." Poison Ivy is a very real possibility and botanist Pamela Isley can easily be retconned into ...

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 ...

oozing little red dots on its cap is a basidiospore – reproductive cells produced by a fungus, in this case a mushroom – and that it is called Bleeding Tooth Fungi. He adds: “The ...