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    #6286309 - 11/15/06 02:31 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

I found some mushrooms yesterday that had the most slime I have ever seen (felt) on a mushroom. I have found some with sticky or somewhat moist caps before, but these were oozing even more so than frogs. Why do some mushrooms have slime? What does the slime do for them?


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Re: slime [Re: clepto4peace]
    #6286361 - 11/15/06 02:47 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

its a protective layer, so people like you can't pick them. You try to grab the cap, but all of a sudden...*SLIP* and the mushroom laughs "hahaha you cant PICK me!!!"

I know that the slime on stinkhorns are to deposit their spores in, and when flies or other animals touch them, the spores are deposited.

The slime on some mushrooms are only apparent when wet.

Some mushrooms, like Slippery Jacks are extremely slippery and seems like they have a mucous layer on them.

Im gessing it is indeed protective in some way.


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Re: slime [Re: clepto4peace]
    #6288523 - 11/16/06 03:39 AM (17 years, 3 months ago)

Yeah, the slimy layer does a good job of preventing things from getting a good hold on it. Maybe that has something to do with why it is in so many different mushrooms.

The most slippery ones that I've encountered were various Hygrophorus species. Trying to even hold one of them was extremely difficult. Once they slip out of your hands, all kinds of leaves/dirt stick to them too. That can get frustrating when trying to set up a photo with picked specimens.


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Re: slime [Re: eris]
    #6297573 - 11/18/06 05:41 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

Thanks for the input.
I love it when living organisms without a brains exhibit adaptations like this without having to “think”. It is odd to think why or how a mushroom species could have developed this mechanism of defense and dispersion of spores over years and years without having the motivation of reason or thought.


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Re: slime [Re: clepto4peace]
    #6297602 - 11/18/06 05:54 PM (17 years, 3 months ago)

the way i like to see it, it's unrelenting tenacity. they try everything and go with what succeeds. you can tell i'm an evolutionist, but as it happens, i believe evolution and intelligent design aren't exclusive. i like the idea that the appearant intelligence of the system is no accident :smile:.

sorry, rambling.


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Re: slime [Re: canid]
    #6299194 - 11/19/06 11:33 AM (17 years, 2 months ago)

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concretefeet said:
the way i like to see it, it's unrelenting tenacity. they try everything and go with what succeeds. you can tell i'm an evolutionist, but as it happens, i believe evolution and intelligent design aren't exclusive. i like the idea that the appearant intelligence of the system is no accident :smile:.

sorry, rambling.




I disagree.  It's inevitable.  Evolution favours some traits and not others dependent on how it enables the oranism to survive.  Naturally, if all of the dry capped mushrooms are picked off by animals and bugs before the spores are able to mature and spread, then there will be fewer of the dry capped mushrooms, where as, if the slimey cap fends of predators long enough to develop spores and release them, then there will be more slimey capped mushrooms.

Evolution is not random selection, I seriously doubt any super natural forces had influence on he Darwinian processes.


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