It is not for nothing that mushrooms are considered almost the most amazing creatures of our planet. Scientists even allocated their own kingdom of living nature to them, though only in 1970, when they figured out that mushrooms fit the definition of "plant" only with a very big stretch. By the way, only the ocean depths have been studied worse than the kingdom of mushrooms. There are more than 2 million species of various mushrooms on Earth, and only a hundred thousand are classified. And it is unlikely that the mycologists' work will go faster - take a look, for example, at these pictures: if you met such a creature in the forest, would you guarantee that it was a mushroom, and not an alien from distant space?
Hydnellum Peka
The homeland of this strange mushroom is North America, although it can be occasionally found in European coniferous forests. Peck's hat is constantly oozing red, blood-like liquid, as if the mushroom decided to take part in the filming of a horror movie. Moreover, in the main roles.
Blue mushroom
Surely these are the mushrooms that grow in fairy tales. It's completely blue! And the cone-shaped hat is ideal for some kind of witch plant, which is partly true, since the Blue Mushroom is poisonous.
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Lattice red
The most non-mushroom mushroom in the world. The red lattice emerges from the ovoid fruit, as if hatching. After some time, the mushroom itself appears from the "egg", outwardly resembling a sculpture of German constructivists.
Blackberry comb
In Asia, this mushroom is highly prized in the kitchen. Although it doesn’t look like a mushroom, it’s more like stalactites hanging from a rocky ceiling!
Devil's cigar
Surprisingly, you can only find a representative of Chorioactis Geaster in Texas and Hokkaido, Japan. Scientists have no idea how this happened and why the mushroom, unpretentious to the surrounding conditions, does not want to grow anywhere else.
Amethyst varnish
Another good-looking, as if descended from the pages of the fairy tales of Hans Christian Anderson. True, the mushroom loses its bright amethyst color over time, turning into a completely ordinary representative of the species.
Starfish fungus
The Latin name for the mushroom is Aseroe rubra. You can meet him on the islands of the Pacific Ocean and in Australia, where, apparently, our demiurge generally dropped all the most unusual creatures of the world. The fungus grows and opens the fruiting body into several rays, outwardly resembling a starfish.
Giant Golovach
Monster among the mushrooms. The giant bighead is quite capable of reaching up to 170 centimeters in diameter and gaining up to 20-25 kilograms of weight. You should hunt them with caution: you can only eat young mushrooms, because with age, spores poisonous to humans begin to ripen in the fruiting body of Golovach.
Veselka ordinary
For its unusual shape among the people, this mushroom has received the nickname "shameful". Since ancient times in Russia it has been believed that veselka can enhance potency. Oddly enough, this is close to the truth: modern researchers have found that the mushroom contains phytosteroids, similar to the male sex hormones androgens.