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Hello and happy Monday. Today I am taking you beneath the mushroom. This is a shelf mushroom. It's also a micro habitat providing a home for spiders, mites and other insects. I've read that even small beetles can fit in between the pores like the one you see up there, and they eat the spores. It seems there's an entire little ecosystem in a shelf mushroom. Everybody needs a home. But here's the thing - once these shelf mushrooms infect a tree, the fungus cannot be killed, so the shelf fungi are a major wood rotting group. You can read much more on the shelf fungi at http://herbarium.usu.edu/fungi/funfacts/shelffungi.htm. You can also use shelf mushrooms in herbal teas, but you probably don't want to eat them.
Before you go diving into the study of shelf mushrooms, I hope you had a marvelous Monday, Thank you for looking. See you tomorrow.
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