SciShow: 6 Weird Mushrooms (And Other Fungi)

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Content of the Lesson: Mushrooms can be pretty weird! Some have the power to trick animals into caring for them, appear to bleed, or even clean up radiation! Hosted by: Michael Aranda SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Carpentier, Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1560272/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982208015467 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232694696_Distribution_and_Phylogenetic_Analysis_of_Termite_Egg-Mimicking_Fungi_Termite_Balls_in_Reticulitermes_Termites https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/by-looking-carefully-japanese-scientist-discovers-the-secrets-of-termite-balls/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000813 https://link.springer.com/article/10.1046/j.1440-1703.2000.00361.x Special thanks to Dr. David Moore https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/nature/the-bleeding-tooth-fungus.aspx https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1468164110604641 https://www.plantlife.org.uk/application/files/6714/8241/0023/Scotlands_rare_tooth_fungi_mgt_guide_FINAL_PDF_lr.pdf http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/mycologywebpages/NaturalHistoryOfFungi/ToothFungi.html https://www.wired.com/2013/02/guttation/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/311612950_Mycorrhiza_The_Oldest_Association_Between_Plant_and_Fungi/figures https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&source=images&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwjQ8oGvkIPlAhWcFTQIHZLnB5MQjB16BAgBEAM&url=https%3A%2F%2Fdspace.library.uu.nl%2Fbitstream%2Fhandle%2F1874%2F289249%2FViertelhauzen%2520LM%2520masterthesis%2520v2.pdf%3Fsequence%3D2%26isAllowed%3Dy&psig=AOvVaw1snes6sFVZBxpwsk21_Xe8&ust=1570296327324065 http://www.davidmoore.org.uk/21st_Century_Guidebook_to_Fungi_PLATINUM/REPRINT_collection/Michelot_etal_A.muscaria_chemistry_biology_toxicology.pdf https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs11356-018-2603-0.pdf https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/Mind_and_Spirit/flyagaric.shtml https://europepmc.org/abstract/med/29741535 http://www.einstein.yu.edu/uploadedFiles/casadevall/Dadachovaionizing.pdf http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2017/ph241/white-t2/ https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Dark+power%3A+pigment+seems+to+put+radiation+to+good+use.-a0164559476 https://academic.oup.com/femsle/article/281/2/109/474059/ https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000457 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0048674 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1753889 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0147651399918481 https://www.mushroomexpert.com/phallaceae.html https://link.springer.com/article/10.1046/j.1440-1703.1998.00241.x https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Browser/wwwtax.cgi?mode=Tree&id=90951&lvl=3&lin=f&keep=1&srchmode=5&unlock https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/06/country-diary-stinkhorn-fungus-phallus-impudicus https://blog.mycology.cornell.edu/2015/02/18/an-unlikely-delicacy-the-basket-stinkhorn/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/281146648_Hericium_erinaceus_an_amazing_medicinal_mushroom https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2221169117310390#bib22 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312205756_Structures_biological_activities_and_industrial_applications_of_the_polysaccharides_from_Hericium_erinaceus_Lion's_Mane_mushroom_A_review https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ptr.2634 https://www.hindawi.com/journals/ecam/2019/7861297/ Images: shorturl.at/qvP78 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Athelia_rolfsii_sclerotia.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Inonotus_obliquus.jpg shorturl.at/kopY2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hydnellum_peckii2.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hydnellum_peckii_62842.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hydnellum_peckii.darvin.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mushroom_in_the_Hills_of_Adelaide.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fliegenpilz_fly_agaric_Amanita_muscaria.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amanita_muscaria_Marriott_Falls_1.jpg shorturl.at/fmGJO https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Chernobyl_NPP_01-2009.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Hericium_erinaceus_2.JPG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Igelstachelbart,_Hericium_erinaceus.jpg


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