Puzzle answers:
OYSTER ORANGE PEEL CHARCOAL BURNER PANTHER CANNONBALL JACK O' LANTERN FRIED CHICKEN
Each of these is a species of mushroom or other fungus, oddly enough:
OYSTER: Pleurotus ostreatus ORANGE PEEL: Aleuria aurantia CHARCOAL BURNER: Russula cyanoxantha PANTHER: Amanita pantherina CANNONBALL: Sphaerobolus stellatus JACK O' LANTERN: Omphalotus illudens FRIED CHICKEN: Lyophyllum decastes
The initials of the genus names spell PARASOL (also a species of mushroom), the meta answer.