⚡️lightning makes mushrooms grow 🍄
Discussion
How?
The mycelium in the soil is jolted by the electricity and causes the fungi to go from a vegetative state to a more reproductive one resulting in the production of mushroom bodies :)
Wow, so awesome! Thank you for sharing
I don’t doubt that can happen, but to be clear that is not the ordinary impetus for mushrooms to “fruit”
The mycelial mat keeps a close eye the conditions at the surface and start sprouting when they’re just right
Might it have something to do with lighting producing nitrate as well? Fungi love the Nitrogen
I guess “jolted” was the less scientific way of saying that the nitrate fixation facilitates the growth of the big umbrella-like ☂️ mushrooms from the hidden mass of mycelia that we see on the surface 🍄
Not to mention lightning’s patterns in the sky mimic those of the mycelium. Everything is connected