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MissHalcyon
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Day 21 of posting cool mushrooms every day:
The Bleeding Tooth fungus (Hydnellum peckii) has both teeth on its underside and "blood" on its top!
The "blood" is extracellular fluid, which is squeezed out when the fungus absorbs water, increasing pressure until the red fluid is squeezed out!
November 27, 2024 at 12:39 AM
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Hey everyone! Thanks so much for your enthusiasm about the Bleeding Tooth! Whether you hate it, want to eat it, or think it's Bliss...
I've received a lot of comments thinking this is my picture-- I want to clarify that my sources are in the alt text!
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From Wiki "they are not particularly edible due to their foul taste" - ironic, as they look like a delicious creation from a 2 star chef
I bet our ancestors licked the hell out of that mushroom and played hopscotch with God before dying.
get a load of these beauties 🍄
Mushrooms that will make me see those mushrooms when I take them
There is a metaphor hiding in there, just give me time to unearth it. 😉
I didn’t know how much I love mushrooms until now!
Interesting. I have never seen that one. Looks like something you could make in resin. :)
They are not poisonous, so you technically could, but they reportedly taste terrible with a very persistent, bitter flavor.
Have you seen The Penguin? I think they copied your mushroom!
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Close up with a fish eye lens
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Here’s one for you…I can’t eat mushrooms so I take pictures of them 😎
You can eat Chicken of the Woods. Don't know about the confection-looking blood drop ones.
I wish everyone could feel autistic joy in the small beautiful things🍄🦋🪲🌸
Do you play game of shrooms? I might have to do a painting of these for this years game.
🧁 these looks so tasty but I’m pretty sure I’d either die or have a very long trip there 😂♥️
The kind of thing one would call their physician about if it appeared suddenly on their shin.
It's what the penguin makes his drugs with.
Saw it once In hawaii on an old guava plantation and it really freaked me out
i have so many questions. is it poisonous at all? is the "blood" toxic to any living being? is it safe for humans to eat?
So funny that my first interaction on BlueSky is a mushroom I found on my tree a few weeks ago. Would love to identify it if anyone feels so inclined!
I always thought mushrooms like this look like forbidden candy
UM, I AM FUCKING FASCINATED. TELL ME MORE. Sorry for the all caps. I got excited.
Has anyone seen The Penguin (yes, that Penguin from Batman) on MAX. Hat to be a spoiler yet this looks VERY familiar.
Cool! Looks like something out of an Elder Scrolls game.
Hard to tell, but looks like a couple maggots or slugs drinking 🩸 blood juice👀.
Wonder if they will turn red after 😂
What part of world did u find ?
PNW / BC
Great pic & cool shroom
Most of my shroom posts on T were of this beauty...
I saw these mushrooms or a fictitious copy in the HBO series the penguin where the "blood" harvested to make an hallucinating drug.
this is really cool o.o
it's like a decorated cucpake too 🤣
I always get forbidden snack moments with these ones BC they look like delicious vanilla gummy with raspberry gel
Oh dear lord, that's disturbing. Kewl, but disturbing. (Holes)
I feel like I bought one of these in Baskin Robbins recently
Isn’t this the mushroom that Season 1 of The Penguin was about
And yet, we humans think we are the superior species. 🤯
Was this what they based the drug in The Penguin off of?
these look like the mushrooms from The Penguin (tv show on max)😱😱😱
Are these mushrooms poisonous, or edible, or in any way useful as medication? Or a psychedelic?
Edible, but gross (incredibly bitter) from what I've read!
Some other folks have mentioned here, and I didn't know this beforehand, but the fluid is an anticoagulant and acts like heparin-- preventing blood clots from forming! This is because of a chemical called atromentin in it.
I live in the country, lots of different plants and mushrooms, mosses etc new to our area likely because of climate change, but I see new plants to use as potential medicinal, (in case we end up being cut off regular deliveries of medicines bc of MAGA tariffs)
No problem! The photo isn't mine (trying to find a good way of giving credit while fitting maximum facts into the posts... settled on putting credit in the alt text.)
You can find the original photo/photographer here: www.reddit.com/r/natureisme...
I was wondering about posting stuff from Reddit, credit is always weird and hard
I might followup my posts with a direct credit source and link in the replies. It feels somewhat scummy to hide it in the alt text, because it seems most people think the photos are mine (some are, some aren't.)
Thank you for empathizing!
I thought I had seen it all……but nope! ☺️👍🏼…This is so amazing.. going to research it now! Thanks
Now I know what they were using in The Penguin.
My goodness .. what strange fungi there are in the world .. thankyou for showing us !
Wow! Just like in “Penguin” … (which BTW puts Colin Farrell on whole new level … great show)
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You might like it.
Aren’t these the same mushrooms used on HBO Penguin?
Fun fact, this mushroom is seen in the show Penguin on Max because it looks funny enough for them to pretend it's a drug mushroom!
Ohhhhh I'm guessing that thing is shouting "waiting for Snow White!" from every oozing pore .....
I am mesmerized! Please tell me this is not an AI generated image
Not as cool as a picture, but from my own summer house (Southern Finland).
Isn’t this the same mushroom the penguin is using to make his drug? Haha
What a weird thing!Why does the mushroom do this must be some benefit?Attract insects?poison?Does the red harden over time or get reabsorbed?
I read a bit and apparently it's speculated to be excess water created by respiration during rapid growth.
that look scary as fuck and im supposed to believe its a fungus and not some hell-derived plant
I thought this was wild cake that just grows. huh. Weird!!
Freaking amazing! I would certainly halt and not know what to make of this! My thought is that it acts as a sort of defense. Natural selection is king!
From what I read, it's theorized that the fluid might be used to either deter animals that could eat the fungus, or attract insects that could help the fungus spread its spores.
It's funny that there's still so much about mushrooms we're uncertain of!
Delicious.
Santa would approve.
Not Psilocybin but they'll do.
I'll just add some Peanut Butter to them.
Thanks for sharing! I learned something amazing today.
So weird! Where do these grow? What area? Curious.
According to its Wikipedia page, "North America, Europe, and it was recently discovered in Iran (2008) and Korea (2010.)"
Mushrooms have such a weird diversity of places they grow. The 1st "mushroom of the day" post I made was for a mushroom that only grows in Texas.... and Japan!
Oh no! It’s the Bleeding Tooth fungus
It’s really out and about and among us
These feelings of dread
Seeing ‘blood’ that’s so red
Sort of fade when it’s not really humongous
The original source of the Bliss on Penguin has been found 🤭
Wow!
Off to the dentist today for some “bleeding tooth”cleaning.
Love your daily 🍄📸
Here is a nice mushroom.
📸 yesterday.
Thinking Prince Agaricus
I know! It’s like “is it cake? Is it poisonous cake? Meh, I’ll eat any cake”. (I lie, I can’t eat mushrooms or most cake, but CAKE!😁)
if the red bits are the poison parts, ill just pick them off. it just has that cupcake aura lol
"Fruit bodies of H. peckii have been described as resembling "Danish pastry topped with strawberry jam". Hydnellum species are not known to be poisonous, but they are not particularly edible due to their foul taste. This acrid taste persists even in dried specimens."
Never had a paragraph raise and dash my hopes so thoroughly...
Beautiful shots, but highly creepy... (I'm kind of trypophobic.)