Mushrooms have some of the best names, like Witches’ Butter and Octopus Stinkhorn. Many common names for mushrooms refers to parts of the body, like:

Snaketongue Truffleclub

Bearded Fieldcap

Club Foot

Hair Sedge Smut

Drab Tooth

Hump Back

Golden Navel

Devil’s Fingers

Tiger’s Eye

Elbow Patch Crust

Hairy Nuts Disco

Bald Knight

Hot Lips

Hairy Earth Tongue

Fingered Candlesnuff

Dead Moll’s Fingers

Cloud Ear

Wood Ear

Shaggy Mane

Velvet Foot

Bear’s Head

Belly Button

Bare-toothed Russula

Silver Ear

Charcoal Eyelash

Jelly Ear

Purple Stocking

Redleg Jellybaby

Slimy Earthtongue

Tongues of Fire

Graceful Tooth

Brain Fold Truffle

Bog Navel

And

Bitter Bigfoot

With other names including Pink Polypore Mould, Green Gillgobbler, and Midnight Disco, half of the fun of being a mycophile is just knowing the hilarious common names of the world’s ‘shrooms.