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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 55 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I like hanging out with the mushroom king.

He's a fungi.

[–] letsgo@lemm.ee 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ArtemisimetrA@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 27 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pictured below: one kinky little fucker

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 4 points 1 month ago

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 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yeah, that little shit. I'm still mad.

[–] PolarKraken@programming.dev 4 points 1 month ago

'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

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

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

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] Neptr@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But stale bread for French toast??

[–] Saffire@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago

Or home made croutons!

[–] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Reddfugee42@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

(Isn't that right, big fella?)

"What did you see? tell me! Don't just stand there!"

[–] I_am_10_squirrels@beehaw.org 1 points 1 month ago

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

[–] General_Effort@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] the_artic_one@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

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 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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 2 points 1 month ago

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).

[–] 42yeah@lemm.ee 14 points 1 month ago

Nooooo! It’s fungi propaganda!!!

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 month ago

"Hey everybody! This guy says that Pluto is a mutha fuckin' planet!"

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 month ago