Our guesses were pretty close!

The small ones are brown birch bolete. The bigger bolete remains a bit of a mystery. The blackening brittlegrill was correct (apparently they're edible but not great).

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Fungi get injured too. 🍄💥
And when a microscopic fungal thread breaks, things can go wrong very quickly.

So how do fungi stop the damage and keep the rest of their network alive?

youtu.be/Rtxzq3YtGzo?si=nzaPDr…

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