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Presumably, if the fungus takes in toxic metals, someone has to go through the wood and collect the body of the fungus, and do some significant chemistry later
by nitwit005 3y ago
Presumably, if the fungus takes in toxic metals, someone has to go through the wood and collect the body of the fungus, and do some significant chemistry later to extract it out?
- Sharlin 3y agoApparently they’re able to concentrate absorbed contaminants in their fruiting bodies. Very convenient. At least as long as we’re talking about species that are nonedible in the first place.
- Anotheroneagain 3y agoI suppose it's to motivate animals to eat them. Even people prefer food high in heavy metals by taste.
- Sharlin 3y agoI think it’s more that the mushroom parts are expendable, they die anyway after they’ve done their job. I don’t think fungi in general benefit much from animals eating them, not the way many plants do.
- Anotheroneagain 3y agoThey want animals to ingest their spores.
- bdd8f1df777b 3y agoIt's my understanding that spore generating vegetables just spread their spores around by wind or other natural means. Unlike angiosperms that often spread their seeds with the help of animals.
- nitwit005 3y agoThat still means a fairly low concentration overall. It's not as if it's going to make a solid lead mushroom.