While Mette was walking her dog, she suddenly encountered an object that looked exactly like a bloody brain growing from a tree trunk, making everyone terrified when they saw it.
Ms. Mette Knøsgaard discovered this strange object while walking her dog in the town of Præstø, Denmark. At first, she felt extremely frightened by its scary appearance: rough, slimy with ulcerative red fluid like fresh blood, and also clinging tightly to the base of the tree.
However, when she calmed down, Mette took a photo of this “tree brain” part and posted it on social networks, asking biologists on Facebook to answer for her. In addition to exclamatory comments such as: “Wow!”, “It looks like a human brain!”, “So disgusting!”, …, there are also some people who really Find out what kind of thing this is, sparking many fierce debates in the online community.
At first glance, the shape of this object can make many people scared: it’s slimy and bloody, and it also grows from a tree trunk!
A “scholar” among the commentators confirmed that this is just a “cow tongue mushroom” (or Fistulina hepatica mushroom), a mushroom that looks exactly like a piece of raw meat growing on a tree trunk. , although a little distorted.
But as soon as this comment was posted, there was another comment refuting this point of view, saying that this is much more like a “bleeding mushroom” (Hydnellum peckii mushroom), because ox tongue mushrooms do not exist. leaking red fluid like that! After arguing back and forth for a while, there was still no winner, so netizens had to call the object “weird mushroom” for good measure!
Ox tongue mushroom (left) and bleeding mushroom (right) are currently the two No. 1 candidates to explain the deformed appearance of that “tree brain” object.At first glance, it seems similar in appearance, but the “cow tongue mushroom” is different from the “bleeding mushroom” in that it can be eaten and has a slightly sour taste that is quite easy to swallow! But in general, no matter what kind of mushroom it is, looking at the bloody “tree brain” like that, no one would dare to come close, let alone taste it.