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The fruiting body of a fungus is typically a reproductive mechanism. Bigger mushroom = more spores (ie. size does matter).
by 100k0s 13y ago
The fruiting body of a fungus is typically a reproductive mechanism. Bigger mushroom = more spores (ie. size does matter).
- Scriptor 13y agoAnd by taller than others the spores would be more likely to be carried over everything else by the wind and travel further distances. A short mushroom's spores might end up only traveling a few feet before hitting, say, another mushroom.