Hour 11: There Are No Poems About Mushrooms, So Here is a List of Facts About Them

Mushrooms evolved to decompose trees.

Mushrooms grow by flooding their cells with water.

Mushrooms are alien organisms genetically

closer to humans than plants which live on food,

Water, and oxygen. Mushrooms are the largest life source on earth;

Their roots expand for miles in search of food.

There are no poems about mushrooms.

Mushrooms help trees talk to each other

Across a network of webs passing signals to other plants,

especially during an attack. Mushrooms create airflows

which shoot spores up to 4 inches into the air.

There are eighty different species of mushrooms

Which glow in the dark. Lightning boosts mushroom growth.

It is theoretically possible that mushrooms came

from an alien planet. There is a suicidal mushroom.

Mushrooms are absolutely badass.

There are over 14,000 different types of mushrooms.

All mushrooms are edible, but some are only edible once.

Poisonous mushrooms are called toadstools.

Fifty types of mushrooms can digest plastic;

Mushrooms are literally saving the planet.

The Death Cap mushroom is one of the deadliest

organisms on earth. More than 350 million years ago,

mushrooms were over 24 feet tall. Ancient Egyptians

reserved mushrooms for royalty,

Because they are a gift from the God Osiris.

Many cultures view mushrooms as gods, spiritual

and medicinal tools, and portals to magical realms.

There are 26 Mushroom Houses built in America;

Mushrooms make an incredible design.

Mushrooms are the definition of cottage core

And hygge aesthetic, a safe little umbrella as a home

Under which nothing bad can ever happen.

Mushrooms almost always grow in groups.

Mushrooms stay together for protection

Without even knowing it. Mushrooms are gateways

To greater things, natural metaphors that there is more

To the Universe than meets the eye beyond the oceans

And sun and stars and moon and that which is known and that

Which is not. Mushrooms are literally going to take over the world

So lets just spend this time in our little mushroom home,

toads living in our own little world

Where nothing bad can ever happen.

 

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