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RE: One Tough Mushroom! - Scleroderma polyrhizum - What's inside this mushroom?
You just taught me so much. I was not expecting that inside! Could you imagine setting up shop at the intersection of a curb and pavement? Tough life by somebody’s gotta do it!
At least this little Scleroderma is a sturdy mushroom. I've been amazed to see soft mushrooms like the Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus) and Morels (Morchella spp.) come up through hard-packed gravel parking lots and the edge of asphalt. The pressure they create must be incredible. They are like a non-Newtonian liquid in reverse, but I don't know a term for that. Other than persistent and incredible, lol.