Experts identified it as the rare Neottiella hetieri, a fire fungus that has been found only twice before in the entire country and never in our state.Video at the link from KKTV, Colorado Springs.
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April 22, 2014
Fire Fungus after the Black Forest Fire
Wandering through the burnt woods around their school, students at the School in the Woods in Black Forest, northeast of Colorado Springs, discover a "fire fungus" never before seen in Colorado.
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Wow. That just doesn't happen much. Is it poisonous, or now a part of the food chain?
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