Fungi are scary

tell me something nice

tigerkat24: biggest-gaudiest-patronuses:... - *Chirp* *Chirp* 7 Dec 2020 tigerkat24 : biggest-gaudiest-patronuses : mirage358 : kyraneko : kyraneko : biggest-gaudiest-patronuses : tell me something nice if you grow mushrooms over a toxic waste site, chemical spill, or other polluted growing medium, they will suck up the toxins into their fruiting bodies with such effectiveness that they are being studied for their ability to clean up tainted industrial sites. it’s called mycoremediation. if you do this with edible mushrooms, they are no longer technically edible, but on the other hand they mak

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