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Laura Baisas: Tell me a bit about Hydnellum peckii. Matt Kasson: Hydnellum peckii is a prized mushroom species not for its edibility, but its strange tooth-like projections on the underside and ...

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 ...

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 – ...

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 ...

Hydnellum peckii is the scientific name. Bleeding Tooth is a particularly striking fungus thanks to the contrast of the pinkish-white cap and the vivid crimson fluid they excrete. Here's where ...