# Sci-fi story id: Sculpture made of mushroom?

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**Created:** [May 22, 2018, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sci-fi-story-id-sculpture-made-of-mushroom/814630 "2018-05-22T19:45:09Z")\
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I remember hearing about this one, but don’t recall the title. As I recall, an artist was sculpting a female figure from a mushroom. As it was completed, he got carried away and kissed it (or bit it, or something), whereupon he died. The punchline of the story was something like 'She was actually a toadstool."

Details very sketchy, as this was related to me 40 years ago.