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All About Mushrooms See /r/Mycoporn for hi-res pics and /r/Mycology for all things fungal (not *just* mushrooms).

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A virtual temple for exploring the fascinating world of mushrooms and their mysteries. Focused on the sharing of knowledge and ideas relating to the identification of unknown species in the wild, or acquired fungi by other means. Users can submit identity requests with input from the community. ShroomID was fundamentally created for the safety of the curious. Intentionally providing false information, or advising users to consume unknown fungi is not tolerated. ~Partner subreddit to r/Shrooms

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•Posted by1 month ago

trailside armillaria. from last fall

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•Posted by2 months ago

From this fall in the PNW, armillaria or gymnopilus? They were everywhere!

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•Posted by1 month ago

The Humongous Fungus Fest in Crystal Falls, Michigan - Covering 37 subterranean acres, this Armillaria gallic is a famous fungus with its own festival.

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•Posted by3 months ago

Armillaria mellea, commonly known as honey fungus. Happy Honey Harvest!

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•Posted by4 months ago

Stop spread of Armillaria honey fungus

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•Posted by4 months ago

Are these Armillaria tabescens? Bonus: my first old man (S. strobilaceus)

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located in Southeastern USA

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•Posted by6 months ago

Speculation: the bacteria may have spread across the Complex like the giant specimen of Armillaria ostoyae, allowing it to keep track of everything that happens.

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Context

In a nutshell, Armillaria ostoyae is an IRL species of honey fungus.

One of its specimens is notorious for being potentially the largest living organism on Earth by mass, area, and volume, covering 3.7 square miles (2,400 acres; 9.6 square km) in northeastern Oregon's Malheur National Forest.

The species as a whole spreads underground, and this specific specimen is estimated to weigh approximately 31,500 tons.

Speculation

A lot of people have been discussing whether the lifeform is able to see, smell, or hear at an extreme range; but perhaps its abilities extend beyond these basic senses, and may be connected to a large network spanning across the Complex, much like Armillaria ostoyae.

Due to the complete lack of natural predators, there would be nothing stopping such a thing from happening, provided enough resources were available. Knowing that the bacteria can infect and sustain organs in human corpses, perhaps it gets the resources in question from them.

When Marvin first sees the black residue, he says "it's organic, is it some kind of fungus?". When the girl from FF2 sees the dark room with the lifeform idling in it, she mistakes it for "a plant".

In other words, even though we know it's hay bacillus, the characters immediately perceive it as mold or plantlike, implying it may have evolved into a mutated fungus that now works like a hive mind.

This would explain why almost everyone gets infected and starts coughing: the air in the Backrooms is packed with fungal spores. You can especially see this in Pitfalls, where the hallway in which the lifeform is located is so dense with bacteria that it's practically foggy.

Through this hypothetical network, the lifeforms may be aware of changes in the environment and able to track people at all times, explaining why the cameramen in Found Footage videos always eventually run into one, and escape them with extreme difficulty.

Edit: thank you so much for the silver award!

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