Mushrooms
Clathrus Archeri, Devil’s Fingers
Four crimson arms reaching out of the leaf litter, one of the strangest shapes fungi make, rendered in full detail.
What caught our eyeNative to Australia and New Zealand, it was first recorded in Europe in the early 1900s, likely arriving by accident, and has been spreading across the continent ever since.
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Field notes
Clathrus archeri, known in English as devil's fingers, is the kind of fungus that makes people stop walking. Several crimson arms spread outward at ground level from a pale base, splayed open like a hand coming up through leaf litter, with a darker pitted texture on the inner surface of each arm.
That inner texture is what the illustration is built around. At a glance it is also what separates this species from anything else vaguely shaped like it, so smoothing it out would lose the subject entirely.
We drew it in its opened position, on a plain ground, at a scale where the arms can be followed individually. Part of the Mushrooms collection, available on posters, prints, t-shirts, hoodies and accessories.
This is an illustration, not an identification guide, and nothing here is advice about picking or eating anything.
