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Bleeding Tooth Fungus

Hydnellum peckii

Photo by TammiElisa
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

A fungus that oozes an orange to red liquid.

Habitat:

A forest, in a hole beneath the roots of a tree.

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Comments (8)

That really is interesting. beautiful and just a little creepy! Thanks.
pretty odd....mother nature got billions of ammo......
wow what a weird and beautiful things you can find on this planet! :D
I had never seen something like this..thanks for sharing!

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PublishedJuly 9, 2011

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