Photo By/Credit
Pearsall, Peter/USFWS
Date Shot/Created
07/07/2005Media Usage Rights/License
Public Domain
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The Lobster mushroom, Hypomyces lactifluorum, contrary to its common name, is not a mushroom, but rather a parasitic ascomycete fungus that grows on certain species of mushrooms, turning them a reddish orange color that resembles the outer shell of a cooked lobster.