Mushrooms come in different shapes. Here they are the 10 uniquely-shaped mushrooms in the world...
Mushrooms, molds and yeast are fungi and majority of the most colorful and unique fungi belong to mushroom. There are two
kinds of mushroom - the non-poisonous and the poisonous. There are numerous edible mushrooms inasmuch as there are
numerous toxic species. On this particular article you will see the most unique species of mushrooms.
1. Coral Shape: Hericium coralloides

Hericium coralloides is absolutely unique and pretty. This cute looking fungus somehow resembles a coral species.
Hericium coralloides is a plant pathogen. Like other North American Hericium species, Hericium coralloides is edible.
2. Octopus Shape: Octopus Stinkhorn
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This species looks weird. As its name implies, this fungus look likes an octopus. Clathrus archeri, commonly known as Octopus
Stinkhorn, is endemic to Australia and Tasmania. The young fungus erupts from a suberumpent egg by forming into four to seven
elongated slender arms initially erect and attached at the top. In maturity it smells of putrid flesh.
3. Coral or Antler Shape: Coral Fungi
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I find this species of mushroom pretty, it is known as the Coral fungi, also sometimes called antler fungi. These are mushrooms that
are so named due to their resemblance to aquatic coral or antlers.
4. Funnel Shape: Jack o' lantern Mushroom
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It's not the color of this species of mushroom that makes it unique but rather for its bioluminescent properties, it glows in the dark.
The jack o'lantern mushroom (Omphalotus olearius) is an orange to yellow gill mushroom that to an untrained eye appears similar
to some chanterelles, and is most notable for its bioluminscent properties. The funnel-shaped jack o'lantern mushroom is
poisonous.
5. Pom-pom or Noodle Shape: Hericium erinaceus
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This mushroom that look likes noodles or pom-pom are known to a variety of name like Lion's Mane Mushroom, Bearded Tooth
Mushroom, Hedgehog Mushroom, Bearded Hedgehog Mushroom, or Bearded Tooth Fungus. It is an edible mushroom in the
tooth fungus group. In the wild, these mushrooms are common during late summer and fall on dead hardwoods, particularly
American Beech.
6. Ball Shape: Giant puffball
These balls are actually mushrooms. Finding a mushroom like this in the meadows is somewhat bizarre because Calvatia
gigantea, commonly known as the Giant puffball resembles a ball. It is a puffball mushroom commonly found in meadows,
fields, and deciduous forests worldwide usually in late summer and autumn. It is common throughout Europe and North
America.
7. Star Shape: Earthstars
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Another weird-looking mushroom is the species called the Earthstars. It look likes a popcorn with a big nut in the middle.
8. Gem-studded Puffball
Eat this mushroom while it's young and avoid eating it when it grows old. This distinct species of mushroom called the gem-
studded puffball or devil's snuff-box (Lycoperdon perlatum) is a moderate sized puffball mushroom with a round fruiting body,
tapering to a wide stalk. Gem-studded puffballs are considered to be a choice edible mushroom when young and the gleba is
homogeneous and white. They become inedible as they mature: the gleba becomes yellow-tinged, and then finally develops into
a mass of powdery olive-green spores.
9. Trumpet Shape: Gomphus floccosus
This mushroom with an unusual shape is not recommendable for consumption. Its shape is like a pitcher or a trumpet is known
as Gomphus floccosus, sometimes called the shaggy-, scaly-, or woolly chanterelle or woolly gomphus. Â This species of mush-
room can be found in coniferous woodlands across Eastern Asia, from Korea to Pakistan, and in North America.
10. Lampshade Shape: Lampshade Mushroom

I named this fancy-looking and unnamed mushroom that I found in the net -The Lampshade Mushroom.
These mushrooms are not colorful but they are certainly unique in their own right. I hope you enjoyed this. Thank you!
Written by nobertbermosa
I am a Secondary School Head Teacher III and currently enrolled for my doctorate degree at Araullo University. I also contribute to Triond and Factoid
I’ve found the Octopus Stinkhorn - Clathrus Archeri - growing wild in the New Forest - Hampshire, United Kingdom. According to your information this is a native of Australia and Tasmania. I can only presume it must have entered the country via the port of Southampton, a few miles north east of where I found it growing.
It certainly is a bizarre-looking fungus with its red specked ‘tentacles’...
We have two very large, white, round mushrooms, they look like Giant Puffballs, but my boyfriend won’t eat them. How do you really know if a mushroom is safe, now he has me afraid!
I have many bright red stinkhorn baskets or cages growing in my bamboo grove in the winter. They look so wierd and unnatural that I first thought them to be decaying plastic fencing. But they are in fact fungi. I live in central Italy and will try to photograph them this coming winter.
I have a fungus growing that is shaped like a cabbage and is about 16” in diameter is this common and what is it called.
I was cutting a bramble patch down in my garden in the mountains east of melbourne, australia when i found a magical clump of earthstars….....................so amazingly beautiful, made me glad i’m not a fanatically tidy gardner. Hoping they return next year.
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