So we have threads for the animals, and for the plants, so I’ll take the initiative to start on the fungi.
And to start out with, I’ll direct our attention to chicken-of-the-woods which is obviously no chicken.
And then there is the mushroom that I heard people calling “bluet,” which is also the name of a flower and quite appropriate to this blue-colored mushroom. But it turns out it is actually spelled blewit, which reminds me of the expression, “You blew it,” meaning you failed spectacularly.