20 Fungi Photos That Prove There Is Beauty Everywhere
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Fungus. The word is known to evoke images of nasty stuff that we don’t want growing anywhere near or on us. However, not every fungi is some gross-colored, fuzzy patch of moldy ickiness. In fact, fungi can produce some of the most beautiful living organisms in nature. With this in mind, we found 20 fungi that surprised us with how appealing they looked:
- This fungus is called an Aardster by people who desperately want it to come first, alphabetically
- Known as a veiled lady, this is what most fungi look like after you eat a certain type of fungus
- The red cage fungus is the missing link between organisms and soccer balls
- Aseroe Rubra look like little, angry sunflowers
- The bearded tooth fungus desperately wants to be a shaggy dog
- This fungus looks like someone ran over a seven-tongued snake
- How come, when fungus forms on our bread, it never tastes like portobella mushrooms?
- Even in the fungi kingdom, some species just feel more fabulous
- This fungus gets annoyed when confused spiders try to mate with it
- We consider this fungus to be beautiful, although it ruined boobs for us
- How come there aren’t any bright pink animals? Oh, right: They’d get eaten
- We’d never eat this fungus because we could never be sure if someone had peed on it
- We had a neighbor who would put these in candy corn bags and give them to kids on Halloween
- We imagine this fungus was once under the sea, but then wished to be a land fungus
- We imagine this patch of fungus would make a good hiding place for earthworms
- We wonder if this fungus can be used as a brush to clean other fungi
- Hydnellum Peckii practically screams, “hey, aren’t oozing wounds beautiful!”
- Cordyceps Tuberculata would make a good hairbrush for crazy woods hermits
- Earthstar fungus just wants to be a flower. Or an eye, we can’t tell
- This orange fungus can be overtly flashy, knowing it is too gross to be eaten
