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General_Effort@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• the_artic_one@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  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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  • LeFrog@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    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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    • the_artic_one@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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).

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