“They looked a bit like lips and I thought the name suited [them] really well because of the bright orange colour.”
12-year-old Rachael Blackman explains her thinking behind the name Hotlips, which was chosen by Natural England as the common name for the Octospora humosa fungus. The Guardian, 20/7/11.
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