This is a weird fungus
- MenSaid

- Oct 13, 2025
- 1 min read

This weird and frankly terrible looking thing is a fungus which has been spotted on Dartmoor in the UK. As you can see it has tentacles and looks straight out of a horror movie, it's also meant to stink like rotting flesh, so it's got a lot going for it,
it's name is Devils Fingers, or my favourite nickname it has which is Octopus Stinkhorn. I think Stinkhorn is going to make it into my vocabulary of insults moving forward.
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Ah, the wonderful world of fungi! A truly fascinating branch of microbiology. Consisting of maybe 3.8 million species, there is no place they can't go. Some species even have a liking for aviation kerosene. This can be a bit of a problem if they metabolise this. Other scary stuff are the zombie funguseswhich affect insects...