Mushroom spores are the microscopic reproductive units of fungi, similar to seeds in plants. These tiny structures carry all ...

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Laser light illuminates spores spreading from this Amanita muscaria mushrooms. Mushrooms "make their own wind" to spread spores, new research shows. Many once thought that mushrooms spread by ...

North Spore's mushroom kit, split to start the fruiting process. Photo by Rosanne Toroian. Have you ever wondered how mushrooms grow? In the wild, mushrooms reproduce by releasing spores, the fungi ...

The ingenious way that mushrooms and certain other fungi fire spores into the atmosphere in order to reproduce has been mimicked by a team of engineers and fungal biologists. These organisms disperse ...

Steady summer rains bring forth a plethora of mushrooms. – that’s right, the fungus is once again among us.Although the mushrooms are always present as tiny, hair-like rootlets braided throughout ...

It’s neither plant nor animal, it can glow in the dark, and it can be deadly. No, not aliens. We’re talking about mushrooms — those strange, mouthwatering morsels that grow in the depths of the forest ...

Floating above your head, invisible to the eye, are billions of fungi spores drifting around on the wind. In fact, it’s estimated that at any one time, there are probably millions of tons of them ...

Beneath our feet, an unseen kingdom is constantly at work. Fungi break down wood, leaves and mulch into nutrients that plants ...

I really like puffballs, not the huge football-sized ones that are starting to show up in the lawns around my house (those are very cool), but rather the smaller, ping-pong sized ones that grow in the ...

Many once thought that mushrooms spread by passively dropping their spores, after which the reproductive packets would hopefully get picked up by a gust of wind, and carried thither and yon. But new ...

Many once thought that mushrooms spread by passively dropping their spores, after which the reproductive packets would hopefully get picked up by a gust of wind, and carried thither and yon. But new ...