30 Bizarre and Beautiful Mushrooms
Amethyst Deceiver (Laccaria amethystina)
Purple mushrooms growing on forest floor
ressaure / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0
Its vivid purple hue makes the amethyst deceiver decidedly strange. Like the bleeding tooth, these colorful anomalies lose their defining quality with age. As they grow older, they fade in color and wither—hence the name "deceiver"—but they're splendidly bright and easy to spot in the deciduous and coniferous forests of temperate zones in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and Asia when they're fresh.
Purple mushrooms growing on forest floor
ressaure / Flickr / CC BY-SA 2.0
Its vivid purple hue makes the amethyst deceiver decidedly strange. Like the bleeding tooth, these colorful anomalies lose their defining quality with age. As they grow older, they fade in color and wither—hence the name "deceiver"—but they're splendidly bright and easy to spot in the deciduous and coniferous forests of temperate zones in North America, Central and South America, Europe, and Asia when they're fresh.
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18 December 2022
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