DETAILS, FICTION AND SILLY MUSHROOMS

This mushroom goes by numerous names—lion's mane, bearded tooth, hedgehog, bearded hedgehog, Satyr's beard, or pom pom mushroom—and it is recognized for its strange, stringy visual appeal. The "strings" are literally spines that grow from only one issue within the mushroom and cascade down like the yarn of the mop head.It can be bright crimson,