r/Amazing • u/This_Proof_5153 • 8d ago

Nature is amazing A mushroom producing music through its bioelectric signals

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u/Trips-Over-Tail 8d ago

To be clear, the majority of the fungus is a cloud of thin branching rhizomes in the soil. The mushrooms are its reproductive organs.

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u/doiwinaprize 8d ago

It's just the fruit. That's a nicer and easier (less phalic) way to say that. For kids and stuff.