"The crust can spread from one branch to another, where the branches are touching, and then act as a natural bind. Kind of interesting that the fruiting body, the mushroom, can grow on and attach two different substrates when the fungus is theoretically only living inside of one substrate? Or perhaps through the sustained physical contact of the branches, the fungus can inhabit both?"
That would be super cool to find out, it would make sense if it could live in both branches at once.
"The crust can spread from one branch to another, where the branches are touching, and then act as a natural bind. Kind of interesting that the fruiting body, the mushroom, can grow on and attach two different substrates when the fungus is theoretically only living inside of one substrate? Or perhaps through the sustained physical contact of the branches, the fungus can inhabit both?"
That would be super cool to find out, it would make sense if it could live in both branches at once.