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letsgoreply
lemm.ee

That mushroom at the bar buying drinks for everyone; he's a fungi to be with.

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ArtemisimetrAreply
lemm.ee

Been hanging out with a girl, I guess you could say I've got a fun gal infection

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Zacryon
feddit.org

As far as I know there are a lot of fungi that have hundreds or even thousands of mating types, i.e. "sexes". Fungi are weird.

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FooBarringtonreply
lemmy.world

I've heard that their orgies are as complex as they are awesome

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SCmSTRreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

A baby in a diaper, with no legs, wearing the Japanese flag on a giant turban, a cowardly royal guard, and who is actually an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

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an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.

I guess they were referencing a toadstool, like Peach's original US name? His name in Japanese actually makes sense: Kinopio, a play on the Japanese word for mushroom, "kinoko."

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'twas told to me that in many ways they refuse to cooperate with our system of taxonomy at large, too freaky to ever be properly pinned down

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As well as, highly ironically, sometimes unnecessary (if you know you know:-P)

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ZoopZeZoopreply
lemmy.world

The stale bread is fine for expansion. It's the expansion into edible bread that annoys me.

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lemmy.ca

I don't know if fungi would be okay with the fact that we antropomorphize their reproductive organs.

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Reddfugee42reply
lemmy.world

We simply respond with the fact that we anthropomorphize our own as well.

(Isn't that right, big fella?)

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lemmy.world

I'd be more supportive of fungi independence if they aimed for a democratic republic. Just saying.

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the_artic_onereply
programming.dev

And let those filthy aspergillus or god-forbid hypomyces have a say in how we run things? I think not, long-live King Muscaria of Amanitaceae!

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LeFrogreply
discuss.tchncs.de

hypomyces

So these are parasitic mushrooms, okay. Are there any mushrooms that live as parasites on hypomyces? So basically a mushroom human centipede?

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Hypomyces are look more like molds growing on mushrooms than mushrooms growing on mushrooms. There are mushrooms that grow on other mushrooms like Squamantina or Claudopus parasiticus but they're all pretty specialized to only grow on certain genera of mushrooms and I'm not aware of any that parasitic mushrooms that can grow on parasitic genera. I'm just a hobbyist though and I've only really studied mushrooms that grow in the Pacific Northwest so perhaps it exists somewhere.

The only potential double-parasitism I can think of is that peppery boletes (Chalciporus piperatus), which are hypothesized to be parasitic on Amanita Muscaria's mycelium because of how frequently they're found together, could be infected with Bolete mold (Hypomyces chysospermus/microspermus).

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But it was enough, for the koopa's were mounting strength....

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