Strange mushrooms

From a 'bleeding tooth' mushroom to one that appears to wear a veil, here are the world's weirdest, rarest, and most beautiful mushrooms.

This may in fact be colus pusillus or Craypot Stinkhorn. I like all manner of fungi. They make excellent subjects but they do require the photographer to crawl around leaf litter, usually on a wet day. I did not mind my crawl today because I was in persuit of an unusuall subject, the red cage fungus which I have never seen growing before. This specimen was in a council garden bed near the river walk in Bulimba. There is another red cage in the foreground but it did not open. Thanks to…

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Cup Fungi {Cookenia sp.} growing on decaying log in lowland Dipterocarp forest. Danum Valley, Sabah, Borneo, Malaysia.

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Inkweed

Most of us love and eat mushrooms. They are delicious. For vegetarians, they are the best source of protein. With that in mind, we are all accustomed to the regular type mushrooms, the champignons mushrooms. That is just one of the many hundreds of mushrooms. And today, we will discuss some strange and weird looking […]