BURNET COUNTY, Texas — A rare fungus has returned to Texas.
The Texas star mushroom (Choriocctis geaster), sometimes known as the hissing mushroom, was just found at the Inks Lake State Park in Burnet County. That's about an hour away from Austin.
Texas Parks and Wildlife says when the mushroom expands, it releases a hissing noise and a hazy cloud of spores similar to the fungus that turns people into zombies in the show The Last of Us.
While thankfully, this mushroom won't cause any type of apocalypse, it is rare and has only been found in Oklahoma, Japan and Texas.
There was a sighting of one before at Inks Lake State Park. This post was from February of this year from Inks Lake State Park.