Penguin’s super-drug fungus is real, and has fascinating properties.
The Penguin introduced us to Bliss, a red crystalline drug.
Its source, though, has a fascinating if not exactly euphoric real-world origin.
Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Penguin, Episode 3, which aired on October 6.
Oz “The Penguin” Cobb sees a chance to make it big in Gotham.
We’ve been hearing about a game-changing drug, and now we finally get to see it.
Aside from the dark urban setting and fictional criminals, though, it’s not the most unrealistic sight.
Both the method and the fungus itself are very real things.
Hydnellum peckii is the scientific name.
Here’s where fiction and reality separate, though.
While the Bleeding Tooth isn’t known to be poisonous, it reportedly has a particularly bitter taste.
The fluid, meanwhile, is not known to be psychoactive, but the reality is just as interesting.
That’s right–it’s a blood thinner thatlooks like blood.
The growth method, too, is based in reality.
Just don’t have a go at get high with it, andpleasedon’t eat random forest fungus.
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