When mushrooms go to war
Maggie Koerth-Baker at 6:41 am Wed, Nov 27, 2013 • 0
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Fungus can fight. Using poisons and flesh-dissolving enzymes (think: mycological "meat" tenderizers), they can defend their turf from incursions by other fungi. Here, a sulfur tuft mushroom (top right) and Phanerochaete velutina (bottom left) hash it out





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