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Cordyceps

Cordyceps militaris

Photo by hahonick
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Field Notes

Description:

A parasitic orange fungus that latches on to insects and then sprouts from their corpse to create twisted formations like the one pictured above.

Habitat:

especially thrives in buried groups of insect larvae

Notes:

I'm not sure about this

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PublishedApril 30, 2014

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