The lurid bolete is a European woodland mushroom with an olive-brown cap that can reach 20 centimetres across, orange or red pores underneath and a stout ochre stem patterned with a red net. Like several red-pored boletes, it turns blue when cut or bruised. It is edible when properly cooked but can upset the stomach raw, and it can be mistaken for the poisonous Satan's bolete, so some guidebooks advise against eating it at all. Eaten with alcohol, it has been linked to reactions like those caused by coprine, though lab tests found no coprine. The fungus lives in partnership with oak, chestnut, birch and beech, and flies often feed on its fruit bodies.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.