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    4 months ago

    The “mushroom” part of any fungus is a very small proportion of the overall organism. Mushrooms are just the “fruit bodies”, the reproductive organs, of the fungus. The fruit runs off to spread spores. The real body of it is spread out underground in a vast mycelium network. Trust the fungus.