Beautiful isn't it?!

[Fib]

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Beautiful isn't it?!

 

 

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[David Humphries]

Yes, and vibrant

 

 

 

 

 

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[Wolfie]

David, do you know if any fungi use vibrant coloured fruiting bodies to attract insects to carry some spores away with them, the same as flowers do.

Stink horn certainly attracts the flys!

[David Humphries]

David, do you know if any fungi use vibrant coloured fruiting bodies to attract insects to carry some spores away with them, the same as flowers do.

Stink horn certainly attracts the flys!

 

Stink horn disperses its spores in the 'gleba' which smells like rotting flesh, which attracts the flies.

 

I don't think colour is used to attract, more likely smell.

 

 

Plenty of bug activity around bland looking fungi.

 

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[Wolfie]

Stink horn disperses its spores in the 'gleba' which smells like rotting flesh, which attracts the flies.

 

 

 

I don't think colour is used to attract, more likely smell.

 

 

 

 

 

Plenty of bug activity around bland looking fungi.

 

 

 

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I thought that would be a case but the op picture got me thinking, In nature, colours generally have a reason - attraction, warning, camouflage, etc. It seems not so in the case of fungi.

[Gary Prentice]

I thought everyone knew colour was to attract fairies