1. Gyromitra esculenta

The fungus like wood ear fungus, scientifically known as Guromitra esculenta, grows in Europe and North America. They usually germinate in sandy soil under the canopy of conifers in spring and early summer. Dark brown brain-like pleated mushroom caps can reach 10 cm in height and 15 cm in width.

Although the toxins are quite dangerous if eaten raw, they are considered a common food in Eastern Europe and the inhabitants of the Great Lakes of North America. This mushroom is banned from circulation in Spain, the packages of mushrooms sold must have clear instructions for use because sometimes boiled, the poison cannot be completely dissolved.

2. Bleeding fungus Hydnellum pecki

Bleeding fungi are found in the coniferous forests of North America, today they have invaded Europe, Korea, Iran. The blood-red liquid escapes through the small holes in the mushroom cap as a special type of excretion of this fungus.

3. Calvatia gigantea trứng

About the size of a soccer ball, the egg mushroom holds the record for the largest mushroom in nature. Many individuals even reach a size of up to 1.5 meters and weigh 23 kg. The vast majority of them are spherical in shape when they reach adulthood and cannot see the mushroom body because the giant cap is so heavy that no other body type can support it.

4. Chorioactis geaster

The name of this fungus comes from the large cigar-like shape when young and they only split into multi-pointed stars to disperse spores during the breeding season. They are one of those rare mushrooms that only grow in central Texas, and parts of Japan. Cigar fungi are discovered by their whistle-like sound each time they release spores into the environment.

5. Green mushroom Entoloma hochstetteri

Green mushrooms thrive in New Zealand and India. At the spore stage, the young fungi are red and then gradually turn blue when they reach a larger size. The color this fungus possesses may be a signal inviting insects to spread spores like insect pollination of flowers. They are one of the 6 native mushrooms of New Zealand and are not edible.

6. Mushroom Mutinus caninus

Mutinus mushrooms have a rather sensitive shape that makes many people blush. They are commonly found on wood chips and fallen leaves in the summer and fall in Europe or eastern North America. However, with this monstrous appearance, they are completely inedible, but according to the locals, their spores are not toxic.

7. Lantern Mushroom

In addition to the name lantern mushroom, the mushroom Amanita muscaria is also known as the fox fire because of the soft red light that they emit like orange like a fox’s tail. With the naked eye, people can also detect the light of this mushroom, so it must not be eaten by mistake. The poison in the fox fire mushroom is enough to kill you in just a few minutes.

8. Cauliflower Clathrus ruber

It is a mesh-shaped mushroom like a round, hollow rattan ball. Their favorite food is rotten, decaying wood, living mainly in Europe. Initially, the spores are white spheres surrounded by a thin film of calcium-rich slime that protects the inside of the young mushroom. In wet conditions, it will spontaneously break to develop into a spherical structure up to 20 cm in size with vibrant colors of red, orange and pink.

As beautiful as it may be, this fungus gives off an unpleasant pod that attracts flies and insects to spread the spores and partly prevents them from being eaten by other species.

According to Southeast Asia Magazine