17 Creepy Mushrooms That Look Unreal

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The phillipsia subpurpurea looks as if it contains the gaping maw of some carnivorous alien plant.

2.

A mature clathrus archeri.

3.

A young clathrus archeri.

4.

Aseroe rubra (mature).

5.

Aseroe rubra (newly hatched).

6.

Helicon.

7.

Coral fungi. The thought of sticking a finger in there would send chills down nearly anyone's spine.

8.

Calostoma fuscum. Looks like the infected Eye of Sauron.

9.

This pink crepidotus makes its host tree look as if it's growing ears.

10.

Gilled fungi.

11.

Jelly babies. This one looks like it has an open wound on its stem.

12.

Tremella mesenterica (of jelly fungi family).

13.

You know a scutellinia scutellata when you see one because it looks like its edge grows eyelashes.

14.

Puffball.

15.

The red hygrocybe looks like a flower made of uncooked meat.

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Starfish fungi.

17.

Auricularia. Pink mushrooms often strike us as the creepiest because they look like deformed human flesh.