Wow. I like the effort that you put in these posts. Thank you so much! I also like fungi! I used to be fascinated about fungi since I was a little kid. If your interested, please check out my channel (I post about astronomy) and subscribe!
Enjoyed the informative post. Met my myco proximal zone of development. I have a question, don't know if you can answer it, might be related and might not: butyriboletus brunneus has, if I understand correctly, hyphae in the tubes, stuffed pores. Can you explain why, and is it related to spores generated on the end of hyphae described above?
From my understanding, B. brunneus produces sexual spores through basidia (the club-shaped reproductive cells that line the tubes). I've never encountered the mushroom so I'm not sure if the tubes are only stuffed when the mushroom is young, or how the basidia are exactly aligned, but at some point spores do leave the tubes.
A. lycoperdoides is different than B. Brunneus because instead of those specialized basidia cells, the former produces asexual spores that just grow from swollen hyphal cells of the fungus. Those spores are also genetic clones rather than the genetically distinct spores of B. brunneus.
Wow. I like the effort that you put in these posts. Thank you so much! I also like fungi! I used to be fascinated about fungi since I was a little kid. If your interested, please check out my channel (I post about astronomy) and subscribe!
Sweet, astronomy is fascinating. Excited to learn about it.
Enjoyed the informative post. Met my myco proximal zone of development. I have a question, don't know if you can answer it, might be related and might not: butyriboletus brunneus has, if I understand correctly, hyphae in the tubes, stuffed pores. Can you explain why, and is it related to spores generated on the end of hyphae described above?
From my understanding, B. brunneus produces sexual spores through basidia (the club-shaped reproductive cells that line the tubes). I've never encountered the mushroom so I'm not sure if the tubes are only stuffed when the mushroom is young, or how the basidia are exactly aligned, but at some point spores do leave the tubes.
A. lycoperdoides is different than B. Brunneus because instead of those specialized basidia cells, the former produces asexual spores that just grow from swollen hyphal cells of the fungus. Those spores are also genetic clones rather than the genetically distinct spores of B. brunneus.
“Piggyback” mushrooms! Very interesting!!!