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In article , Anthony E Anson writes:
| The message | from Kay Easton contains these words: | | Yes, but without fruit bodies, they don't spread. | | Do they not? Some other fungi spread asexually - dry rot, for example. | | The mycelium will work its way outwards, but that's not what I meant. | That sort of spreading is very local and comes to a halt if the pH is | wrong, or the tree cover changes, or if they come up to a road, or | stream. | | Mycelial strands when they meet sometimes join and form fruit bodies. | These give rise to spores which are microscopic, and when released into | the air can travel on the wind anywhere in the world. Fungal spores have | been detected in samples taken from high in the stratosphere. | | The chance that one will land somewhere conducive to growth in | conditions which encourage it are the reciprocal of astronomical, which | is why each fruit body produces so many millions of spores. Yes. As with most such organisms, picking enough of the fruit over a long enough period to significantly reduce its capacity CAN be a problem. But only when it is limited by the success rate of its seeds or spores, and not when it is limited by available habitats. I believe that the majority of relevant fungi are almost entirely habitat limited in the UK. | But what I was referring to was that the Act says you mustn't dig up | plants, not that you mustn't pick fruit. | | Fungi are not plants: they occupy a completely separate phylum. Tell that to a lawyer :-) God alone knows what the House of Lords would decide that fungi are. Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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