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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

A decent survival strategy would be to be poisonous and recognizably colored. If you look like any other mushroom, it's just revenge-poisoning. Possibly with the side effect of animals not eating any mushrooms, but that doesn't sound like something that's in a given mushroom species' interest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Incredibly poisonous, food-colored, and with spores that can survive/germinate in a digestive tract.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Deleted, duplicate

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

Sneaky death mushrooms get to break down the body, potentially