As far as I know there are a lot of fungi that have hundreds or even thousands of mating types, i.e. "sexes". Fungi are weird.
I've heard that their orgies are as complex as they are awesome
Pictured below: one kinky little fucker
A baby in a diaper, with no legs, wearing the Japanese flag on a giant turban, a cowardly royal guard, and who is actually an anthropomorphic mushroom named Toad.
Yeah, that little shit. I'm still mad.
'twas told to me that in many ways they refuse to cooperate with our system of taxonomy at large, too freaky to ever be properly pinned down
As well as, highly ironically, sometimes unnecessary (if you know you know:-P)
A kingdom always seeking expansion. Stop expanding into my stale bread dammit!
The stale bread is fine for expansion. It's the expansion into edible bread that annoys me.
But stale bread for French toast??
Or home made croutons!
I don't know if fungi would be okay with the fact that we antropomorphize their reproductive organs.
I anthropomorphize my reproductive organs too, why should shrooms get a pass?
Nooooo! It’s fungi propaganda!!!
I'd be more supportive of fungi independence if they aimed for a democratic republic. Just saying.
And let those filthy aspergillus or god-forbid hypomyces have a say in how we run things? I think not, long-live King Muscaria of Amanitaceae!
hypomyces
So these are parasitic mushrooms, okay. Are there any mushrooms that live as parasites on hypomyces? So basically a mushroom human centipede?
Hypomyces are look more like molds growing on mushrooms than mushrooms growing on mushrooms. There are mushrooms that grow on other mushrooms like Squamantina or Claudopus parasiticus but they're all pretty specialized to only grow on certain genera of mushrooms and I'm not aware of any that parasitic mushrooms that can grow on parasitic genera. I'm just a hobbyist though and I've only really studied mushrooms that grow in the Pacific Northwest so perhaps it exists somewhere.
The only potential double-parasitism I can think of is that peppery boletes (Chalciporus piperatus), which are hypothesized to be parasitic on Amanita Muscaria's mycelium because of how frequently they're found together, could be infected with Bolete mold (Hypomyces chysospermus/microspermus).
But it was enough, for the koopa's were mounting strength....
"Hey everybody! This guy says that Pluto is a mutha fuckin' planet!"
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