#podoserpula

Podoserpula pusio

Story in caption. Week 09 - Podoserpula Miranda (#funguary week 4)

That’s it - I am done with this valley! Yesterday, I fell victim to another malevolent awakened fungus and nearly died! It seemed so innocuous, yet it was deadly. I came upon the most gorgeous pink-colored mushrooms I have ever seen. Their lovely fruit bodies towered in tiers up to 30 feet, forming a dense pink wonderland in this part of the valley. I instantly fell in love with them. Entranced, I kept wandering among these delightful towering fungi. After some time, I noticed strangely fascinating anorexic female figures dancing on the tiers of the pink pagodas. I just could not stop watching this enthralling spectacle! Only when a group of angry blue milk fairies started pulling my hair and poking me, I came to my senses. Corpses and skeletons covered the ground around my feet - all of them held by the psychic powers of these deadly myconids and thus turned into fertilizer. I definitely long for a place with significantly less vegetation - and I think I just know the right place, just a week’s travel away from this cursed valley.

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Podoserpula miranda

Pink Pagoda Fungus, Barbie Pagoda Fungus

Pretty.

Pink Pagoda Fungus - Podoserpula miranda

What you see in this picture is a spectacular Pink Pagoda Fungus, species Podoserpula miranda (Amylocorticiales - Amylocorticiaceae) discovered in the Pacific island archipelago of New Caledonia in 2009, and described in 2012.

Podoserpula miranda not only has a highly striking color for a fungus but also an architecture that is especially fascinating to scientist, containing a unique set of six mushroom caps that are centered on one stalk and decrease  in size as they near the top. 

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