Blood Mushroom
This little oddity Hydnellum peckii has so many common names, names as striking as the mushroom itself. Devil's Tooth, Strawberries and Cream, Bleeding Tooth.
Remarkably, young fruit bodies can "bleed" bright red droplets, which coincidentally have anticoagulant properties.
They show up around my woods only at this time of year, exuding these red droplets for a day or two, then the droplets go away and the mushroom looks unnoticeably ordinary.
Blood Mushroom
This little oddity Hydnellum peckii has so many common names, names as striking as the mushroom itself. Devil's Tooth, Strawberries and Cream, Bleeding Tooth.
Remarkably, young fruit bodies can "bleed" bright red droplets, which coincidentally have anticoagulant properties.
They show up around my woods only at this time of year, exuding these red droplets for a day or two, then the droplets go away and the mushroom looks unnoticeably ordinary.