It's surprising there aren't more mycelium visible around the field. I've seen a few mushrooms that the chickens either didn't find, or didn't fancy A couple of rotting trees have some interesting growths. Perhaps the cultivation of the plots doesn't make for a suitable growing site. Maybe one of you mushroom eating chancers know if some mushrooms are annual spread by seed while others are networked underground (?)
Has she ever hatched. There's nothing like the reality of being a mother to take the shine off the whole idea.Millie the Pekin is a serial broody, 2 1/2 yrs old and has never had a big moult. She tends to have a mini moult after coming out of broodiness, has a pause, lays 12 - 14 eggs and promptly goes broody again. Breaking her broodiness just shortens the cycle
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But very sweet & only grumbles when I lift her off the nest to eat etc.
Is seed the correct word for mushroom offspring? I thought it was spores. A bit more dusty than seeds.
Spores is I think correct. Couldn't think of the word when I was typing the posts.
Exactly. Cultivation discourages them as it breaks their threads underground (the mycelium). So look for them round the edges and on other uncultivated bits of the field. Some grow on wood (living or dead) and some grow in soil. And some grow on insects and animals, but they're really hard to find, unless the animal is oneself or a pet
.Actually that's still a mystery for most species. Apparently most attempts at seeding mushrooms fail, e.g. walking around your property with a favourite type does not normally result in that type popping up in the years following. And spores have been found in unexpected places, like inside the cells - not just the bodies, the cells - of other organisms. They've been around since before the plants (funga evolved before flora) so there's probably a lot we don't know / recognize / understand about them.
I laughed at that.
Henry, benevolent Lord over his domain...
