Questions tagged [fungi]
For questions about spore-producing organisms that feed on organic matter. Remember that fungi are not plants.
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Evolution of classic giant mushroom forests [closed]
How would the classic fantasy trope of giant mushroom forests evolve?
In an alternate, Earth-like reality, how would fungi grow into dense, lush 'forests'?
Mushrooms decompose things, so to have ...
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What would fungal technology look like? [closed]
In a setting I've created it's modern Earth just like you see around you every day except there's an area deep underground reminiscent of D&D's Underdark or Skyrim's Blackreach in that it's a ...
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Flora of Radiotroph-Dominated World
After the Great Nuclear Apocalypse, the skies clouded over with dust and the world froze. Expectedly, most plants died out, and were then replaced with radiotrophic fungi, originating from all sorts ...
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Can a human colony be self-sustaining without sunlight using mushrooms?
Fungi do not need light to grow. They also can and do grow in feces.
Is it possible for a human colony to provide their caloric needs by growing mushrooms using their own poop? If so, what's the ...
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Can a Moon Shoot Spores?
I'm currently working on a world for a fantasy novel. For the sake of this discussion, we can assume it's low to no magic at all, and has no higher-intelligence interference, such as creator races, ...
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How does my symbiotic fungus silicify its own cell walls to armor its host's bones?
Fungi have cell walls which - unlike those of plants, which are made out of cellulose, xylan, and lignin - are instead made out of chitin, glucan, and mannans.
A fungus I'm planning on writing about ...
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plausibility check : this kind of mushroom [closed]
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in this world with small gravity and strong wind, airbone plants thrive.
this planet too have thick clouds covering so underneath it is almost dark or rainy.
the thriveness of airbone ...
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Tunnelling Spores in Asteroid Belt
I am trying to justify a fungal life-form that lives in an alternate version of the Kuiper Belt.
The life-form is (loosely) based off of this article: https://www.zmescience.com/science/geology/fungus-...
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crystalline fungi: is it possible, or should I excuse it with mAgIc/
A species of fungi known as Golloriee is a fairly uncommon creature I've come up with. Its origins are certainly very unnatural, but have been shrouded in folklore over time, they say the crystals ...
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Giant realistic Prototaxites like fungi in a hot climate
My planet is very similar to earth around 359 to 299 million years ago. years ago. It’s mostly covered in deserts, jungles, swamps, temperate forests, and their variants.
(The Carboniferous period)
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Why would an everything-eating fungus be unable to spread outside of Australia?
Let's say that Australia has been taken over by a hyper-aggressive fungus that grows on any biological life form larger than an ant. The stuff covers the entire continent, has subsumed every form of ...
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Could a fungivore store fungus like a shrew or mole stores meat?
Could an animal extract fungi and store them alive, as shrews and moles do with their prey? Some problems could be that fungi have less energy than meat, and that they are easier to find due to being ...
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What can you do with fungal spores? [closed]
The spores in question come from the vegetables described in this question. More specifically, the spores are like grains, with a chitinous shell, small wings, and a nutritious flesh, akin to softer ...
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Does this vegetable make sense?
This vegetable is a fungus grown by the people described in this question. It is egg-shaped with no stalk, and is around 1m tall and 70cm across at the widest point. They can be, and often are, ...
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Could the Earth survive without animals and have only plants and fungi populate it? [duplicate]
My question is very specific. If the Earth had evolved to never have animals, and instead only have plants and fungi, could the Earth be habitable for humans, or any life at all? Could it be ...
