Fungi > Pleurotaceae & Agaricales
The Oyster Mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus), celebrated across global mycophagy and industrial biotechnology as the pearl oyster mushroom or tree oyster, is a widespread, shelf-like wood-decay macrofungus belonging to the family Pleurotaceae within the order Agaricales....
Invertebrates > Chirodropids & Chirodropida
The Sea Wasp Box Jellyfish (Chironex fleckeri), widely feared across northern Australia and Southeast Asia as the world’s most venomous marine animal, is a colossal, translucent cubomedusan cnidarian belonging to the box jellyfish family Chirodropidae within the...
Invertebrates > Octopodids & Octopoda
The Common Octopus (Octopus vulgaris), celebrated across marine science, cognitive ethology, and classical mythology as the undisputed genius of the invertebrate world, is a highly intelligent, solitary benthic cephalopod mollusk belonging to the family Octopodidae...
Plants > Araceae & Alismatales
The Swiss Cheese Plant (Monstera deliciosa), celebrated globally as the split-leaf philodendron, hurricane plant, or Mexican breadfruit, is a colossal, evergreen climbing hemiepiphyte belonging to the arum family Araceae within the order Alismatales. Indigenous to the...
Plants > Solanaceae & Solanales
Deadly Nightshade (Atropa belladonna), known historically across herbalism and pharmacognosy as belladonna, devil’s cherries, or dwale, is an infamous, highly toxic perennial herbaceous plant belonging to the nightshade and potato family Solanaceae within the...
