The National Park Service has a new take on an unusual woodland discovery: the bleeding tooth fungus. Known for its striking appearance, the bleeding tooth fungus—also called Devil’s tooth fungus or ...

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Matt Kasson: Hydnellum peckii is a prized mushroom species not for its edibility, but its strange tooth-like projections on the underside and red blood-like droplets that form atop a flattened ...

The first half of October has been setting the pace as being another October wetter than normal. Three of the last four Octobers have given us more precipitation than usual. (October 2007 was even the ...

There are probably more than two or three million kinds of fungi, although fewer than about two hundred thousand are known taxonomically. What strange creatures they are: not plants, although their ...

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