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Mushroom ID (mander.xyz)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I love fungi facts.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Fungi are fascinating. Did you know that, if I'm recalling correctly, the largest living organism is a massive fungus?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's not the shared root system tree in North America? I could totally see it being a mushroom.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

And reindeer are trained to follow the smell of human piss because they like tripping on amanita muscaria, which transfers its psychoactive compounds through urine.

Wacky!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This guy sees the most terrifying description of a toxin killing someone and goes "Yep, that's a fun mushroom facto"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, that is basically what's to be expected from myshrooms

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

this guy so into mushrooms they added myco to their mushrooms (myshroom) for more mushroom per mushroom