I think you listed more than two characteristics, sir. Unless you're blending some of them together.
October 29, 2007
Anonymous said...
Here's a picture with the teeth. It also says they taste peppery, so someone's eaten them and lived to tell the tale. Saw another page that claimed the ooze is used to dye wool, and yet another that called this monstrosity "Strawberries and Cream."
October 29, 2007
Anonymous said...
Now this is disgusting. Wombat, you have outdone yourself.
Too bad these aren't more well-known...I bet with a little ingenuity and jelly beans and such, you could make cupcakes that look just like this!
October 29, 2007
Anonymous said...
What I want to know is WHY it exudes bloody-like droplets. What's the benefit. I also have to say that if I found one of these grossities under a tree, I would have to stick my finger into a droplet (actually my tongue to see if the droplet does taste peppery but even writing that kind of grosses me out).
October 30, 2007
Anonymous said...
Wow. If these were a horror movie special effect, I'd say that they were going over-the-top into ridiculousness. Truth is stranger than fiction, every time.
Normally, when I look at your site, I think to myself how creepy and cool the pictures are. This fungus just makes me SICK though. blech. Looking at it is enough to make me want to vomit.
I actually think they look NUMMY! Not ugly at all. ;) Cool fungus, I do need to see pictures of the "teeth" beneath. ;)
October 31, 2007
Anonymous said...
pkeli said "What I want to know is WHY it exudes bloody-like droplets. What's the benefit."
Maybe you really don't want to know why...
Long ago, on a day just like this one, a hiker was hiking through a deep dark forest. Having run out of trailmix, he was feeling a bit peckish when he spied what LOOKED like innocent (though mutated) jelly donuts. "Mmmmmm... cherry filling...", he murmered as he put his finger in a pool of blood red gooey ooze and brought it to his lips."Hmmm...peppery cherry..." but before he could finish his sentence, he collapsed on the side of the trail.
This made the Bleeding Tooth Fungi (which of course is what the helly donuts actually were) very happy. If you were there, with them, in the middle of the dark forest, alone, I'm sure you could have heard them...laughing.. evilly .. as you cringed in disbelief behind a tree and watched the terror unfold....
Hours later, another hiker was hiking through the deep dark forest. He paused as he noticed a huge mound by the side of the trail covered with mutated jelly donuts...strange how it was shaped LIKE A HUMAN CORPSE.
Okay. We now return you to your normal, ugly viewing. Happy Halloween...
Other fungi have droplets too, albeit smaller and less red. In fact quite clear. I've seen them in the forest in Oregon. (can't remember what kind, I'm out of practice) Although, it could have been dew? I dunno.
November 19, 2007
Anonymous said...
mmm... jellied pancakes, just the way nature intended
September 29, 2008
Anonymous said...
My little brother had one of those growing out of his ear.
I don't post very often on non-animals. But when I'm forwarded photos of something called the 'Bleeding Tooth Fungus,' I have to take action. This mushroom earns its name from two characteristics:
1) Bleeding: they ooze a red liquid. 2) Tooth: they grow little 4 mm teeth on their underside. 3) Fungus: it's a mushroom.
You really can't ask for a more appropriate name. I probably should have saved this post for Halloween, but I couldn't resist.
Thanks for the photos, Kelly. I feel a little bit sick now--my world just got a bit more disgusting.
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posted by Raging Wombat at 12:02 PM on Oct 26, 2007
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Close this window Jump to comment formThey look like mishapen jelly donuts or coffee cakes gone horribly wrong. I bet they are poisonous...what do you think the 'blood' tastes like? : p
Sherry/SofN
October 29, 2007
I wanna see what they look like underneath, but I can't seem to find a photo of that view anywhere online.
October 29, 2007
I think you listed more than two characteristics, sir. Unless you're blending some of them together.
October 29, 2007
Here's a picture with the teeth. It also says they taste peppery, so someone's eaten them and lived to tell the tale. Saw another page that claimed the ooze is used to dye wool, and yet another that called this monstrosity "Strawberries and Cream."
October 29, 2007
Now this is disgusting. Wombat, you have outdone yourself.
October 29, 2007
ew ew ew. the bottom part looks like the rumen lining in a cow.
October 29, 2007
aaaand... I've officially been squicked by UO. It apparently took oozing fungus to do it. Eurgh.
October 29, 2007
Too bad these aren't more well-known...I bet with a little ingenuity and jelly beans and such, you could make cupcakes that look just like this!
October 29, 2007
What I want to know is WHY it exudes bloody-like droplets. What's the benefit.
I also have to say that if I found one of these grossities under a tree, I would have to stick my finger into a droplet (actually my tongue to see if the droplet does taste peppery but even writing that kind of grosses me out).
October 30, 2007
Wow. If these were a horror movie special effect, I'd say that they were going over-the-top into ridiculousness. Truth is stranger than fiction, every time.
October 30, 2007
Normally, when I look at your site, I think to myself how creepy and cool the pictures are. This fungus just makes me SICK though. blech. Looking at it is enough to make me want to vomit.
Yuck, thanks for the gross post!
:)
October 30, 2007
I donno, all that shiny red fluid and that bright pink of it...kinda looks like something out of a bad shojou series.
October 31, 2007
I can't decide if these remind me of bloody chunks of flesh (yuck!) or a punctured jelly donut (Yum!)
Either way, it is amazing stuff like this even exists.
October 31, 2007
I actually think they look NUMMY! Not ugly at all. ;) Cool fungus, I do need to see pictures of the "teeth" beneath. ;)
October 31, 2007
pkeli said "What I want to know is WHY it exudes bloody-like droplets. What's the benefit."
Maybe you really don't want to know why...
Long ago, on a day just like this one, a hiker was hiking through a deep dark forest. Having run out of trailmix, he was feeling a bit peckish when he spied what LOOKED like innocent (though mutated) jelly donuts. "Mmmmmm... cherry filling...", he murmered as he put his finger in a pool of blood red gooey ooze and brought it to his lips."Hmmm...peppery cherry..." but before he could finish his sentence, he collapsed on the side of the trail.
This made the Bleeding Tooth Fungi (which of course is what the helly donuts actually were) very happy. If you were there, with them, in the middle of the dark forest, alone, I'm sure you could have heard them...laughing.. evilly .. as you cringed in disbelief behind a tree and watched the terror unfold....
Hours later, another hiker was hiking through the deep dark forest. He paused as he noticed a huge mound by the side of the trail covered with mutated jelly donuts...strange how it was shaped LIKE A HUMAN CORPSE.
Okay. We now return you to your normal, ugly viewing. Happy Halloween...
Bwabwabwabwa!
Sherry at SofN
October 31, 2007
ROTF - "Anony" - NICE fire-side scary story version of this fungus' natural history! You made my All Saints Day. ;p
November 01, 2007
Sherry--
Now I REALLY want to go find some of these. And bring a friend... heh heh heh
November 02, 2007
Other fungi have droplets too, albeit smaller and less red. In fact quite clear. I've seen them in the forest in Oregon. (can't remember what kind, I'm out of practice) Although, it could have been dew? I dunno.
November 19, 2007
mmm... jellied pancakes, just the way nature intended
September 29, 2008
My little brother had one of those growing out of his ear.
October 30, 2008
so pretty!!!
January 11, 2011
i kinda wan to eat it.....
October 10, 2011
It's not disgusting, looks like marshmallow.
January 05, 2012