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Stunned social media users described the “alien mushroom” as “striking and cool”. “Its gills start out white, then pink, then turn black and ‘melt’ into a black liquid filled with spores,” the CSIRO ...

Mushrooms are the fleshy, spore-bearing body of fungi that few people want growing on their lawns, mostly for aesthetic reasons. Alien-looking mushroom caps popping up sporadically through grass ...