An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests
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Re: An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests
#2Here's one for "The last of us". The fungi will get us all.
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#4The good news is that's edible and apparently tastes good.
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#52026 was already quite interesting and now I have marked “Unstoppable Carnivorous Mushroom” on my Bingo Card.
Re: An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests
#6Here's one for "The last of us". The fungi will get us all.
In Interstellar as well, I think. The blight felt like a similar fungi.
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#8I had a mushroom farm in Northern Michigan some years ago and we grew Golden Oysters, among other species. I think our winters are too cold for them to really establish themselves, but I was hearing reports of them 'going native' in Southern Michigan as long ago as 15 years.
Like the farmer in the article, I also wondered about the apparent lack of effort in growing native species. My area has a wonderful native oyster Pleurotus populinus; exceptional in taste compared to other oysters, but I have never heard of anyone cultivating them.
Re: An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests
#92026 was already quite interesting and now I have marked “Unstoppable Carnivorous Mushroom” on my Bingo Card.
Wikipedia: "The Last of Us is an action-adventure video game series and media franchise created by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.[a] The series is set in a post-apocalyptic United States ravaged by cannibalistic humans infected by a mutated fungus in the genus Cordyceps."
Re: An unstoppable mushroom is tearing through North American forests
#10A company grows these (and other mushrooms) in a warehouse here in Zurich to supply restaurants and grocery stores, which is probably one of the reasons these mushrooms are now found in the wild.
I "hunt" (in German you use the verb "collect/gather") mushrooms in the forests around Zurich and I haven't seen these yet. They also don't appear in my Pilzfürher app specific to Switzerland. But I have heard they are here. From pictures I've seen of them in the wild I might dismiss them from a distance because I could mix them up with two common yellow mushrooms here - one poisonous.
(I'm going out to search for morels this weekend)