30 Bizarre and Beautiful Mushrooms
Blue Pinkgill (Entoloma hochstetteri)
Bright blue mushroom on mossy ground
little.tomato / Flickr / CC BY 2.0
Like something out of a fairytale, the Entoloma hochstetteri is royal blue, courtesy of a trifecta of azulene pigments, and has a cone-shaped head. It almost appears fake amid leaf litter in its native New Zealand—where the indigenous Māori originally named it werewere-kokako after the kōkako bird—and India. In 2002, the blue mushroom was included in a set of fungal stamps issued in New Zealand.3 It also featured on the back of New Zealand's $50 bank note.
Bright blue mushroom on mossy ground
little.tomato / Flickr / CC BY 2.0
Like something out of a fairytale, the Entoloma hochstetteri is royal blue, courtesy of a trifecta of azulene pigments, and has a cone-shaped head. It almost appears fake amid leaf litter in its native New Zealand—where the indigenous Māori originally named it werewere-kokako after the kōkako bird—and India. In 2002, the blue mushroom was included in a set of fungal stamps issued in New Zealand.3 It also featured on the back of New Zealand's $50 bank note.
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18 December 2022
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