Your majesty
from fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz on 04 May 18:53
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Zacryon@feddit.org on 04 May 19:26 next collapse

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.

FooBarrington@lemmy.world on 04 May 19:44 collapse

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

PolarKraken@programming.dev on 04 May 21:35 next collapse

'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

Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world on 05 May 00:18 next collapse

Pictured below: one kinky little fucker

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SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 05 May 04:18 next collapse

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.

samus12345@lemm.ee on 05 May 16:12 collapse

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.”

hakunawazo@lemmy.world on 05 May 05:30 collapse

Yeah, that little shit. I’m still mad.
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OpenStars@piefed.social on 05 May 00:20 collapse

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

tetris11@lemmy.ml on 04 May 19:34 next collapse

But it was not enough, for the koopa’s were mounting strength…

GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 04 May 21:36 next collapse

“Hey everybody! This guy says that Pluto is a mutha fuckin’ planet!

Kolanaki@pawb.social on 04 May 21:39 next collapse

I like hanging out with the mushroom king.

He’s a fungi.

letsgo@lemm.ee on 04 May 21:53 collapse

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

ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee on 05 May 14:52 collapse

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

prettybunnys@sh.itjust.works on 05 May 15:55 collapse
General_Effort@lemmy.world on 04 May 23:46 next collapse

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

the_artic_one@programming.dev on 05 May 00:44 collapse

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!

LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de on 05 May 05:23 collapse

hypomyces

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

the_artic_one@programming.dev on 05 May 14:07 collapse

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).

lvxferre@mander.xyz on 04 May 23:49 next collapse

A kingdom always seeking expansion. Stop expanding into my stale bread dammit!

ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world on 05 May 03:53 collapse

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

Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone on 05 May 15:23 collapse

But stale bread for French toast??

Saffire@sh.itjust.works on 05 May 15:37 collapse

Or home made croutons!

42yeah@lemm.ee on 05 May 05:33 next collapse

Nooooo! It’s fungi propaganda!!!

UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca on 05 May 15:13 next collapse

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

Reddfugee42@lemmy.world on 05 May 15:46 next collapse

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

(Isn’t that right, big fella?)

UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca on 05 May 16:52 collapse

“What did you see? tell me! Don’t just stand there!”

I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org on 05 May 18:56 collapse

I anthropomorphize my reproductive organs too, why should shrooms get a pass?

Zerush@lemmy.ml on 05 May 17:13 collapse

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