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The bleeding tooth fungus
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The bleeding tooth fungus grows in Europe and North America. While young, the fungus looks like it is oozing blood. The red liquid is actually an anticoagulant. It lives on the roots of conifer trees and exchanges nutrients in a mutually beneficial relationship. And, if you're wondering, they are inedible. 
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savio |
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Haunted house made from bread mold
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Italian artist Daniele Del Nero has created a really cool series of architectural scale models constructed with black paper and covered with flour and a layer of mould to create the effect of old abandoned buildings.
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duddy |
10 years ago |
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How a tree protects itself from the rain
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These are hundreds of umbrella mushrooms growing on tree bark. Mushrooms that take over the tree trunk like this are usually spread by wind-blown spores and generally infect older or injured trees.
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duddy |
10 years ago |
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Not all corals live underground
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This is beautiful but deceptive Clavaria zollingeri, also known as the violet or magenta coral. But contrary to its name, it doesn't live underwater - it's a species of fungus that grows in woodland areas in North America, South America, Africa, Asia, New Zealand and Australia.
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duddy |
10 years ago |
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Foxfire or Firefox, take your pick!
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Foxfire, also called "fairy fire" is a crazy glow in the dark fungus. The bluish-green glow is attributed to luciferase, an oxidative enzyme, which emits light as it reacts with luciferin. It is widely believed that the light attracts insects to spread spores, or acts as a warning to hungry animals, like the bright colors exhibited by some poisonous or unpalatable animal species. Although generally very dim, in some cases foxfire is bright enough to read by. ...
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Black earth tongues
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Known as black earth tongues ( Trichoglossum hirsutum) for their unique shape, this club-shaped fungus measures 3 to 8 cm high, and can be in the woodlands of North America, Europe, and Africa.
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