Re: Re: Mushrooms with my VFT
Doug Bosco (bosco@interaccess.com)
Fri, 17 Nov 1995 00:17:26 -0600
>> From: "Andreas Wistuba" <A.Wistuba@DKFZ-HEIDELBERG.DE>
>>
>> Not necessarily. There are also higher Fungi which destroy living
>> Sphagnum. I had an infection in my greenhouse some years ago which,
>> to make things worse, took place in winter. Within a few weeks all my
>> potting media made up of Sphagnum turned into a slimy greyish mass
>> and I had to repot almost all my plants within weeks.
>> On all the pots were these neat mushrooms.....;-)
>> Since that time I banned Sphagnum from my cultures.
>
>
>Andreas, I've seen Sphagnum in my Nepenthes terrarium die by from
>fungus the same way your's did, but I didn't get any mushrooms. This
>was sereval months ago. Now, here and there I will see a mushroom
>pop up; they are very, very thin stand about 3-5 inches tall and the
>caps could only be about 3-4 mm wide. They have a mostly white with
>a little gray color to them. They don't seem to be connected with
>the Sphagnum: there is some still growing in there that started
>growing after I sprayed the terrarium down with Maneb to stop the
>first rot in July.
>
>Could your mushrooms have just been growing at the same time as
>killer fungus or maybe ever bacteria?
>
>Dave Evans
>
>P.S. I had just read in Discover (oct 95) that someone had
>found over 5000 sexes in a single species of fungus. Woah! Just
>imagine the talk shows you'd see if this rule was for animals as
>well. ;)
>
>
Whoa! 5000 sexes?? Like what would sex #3040 be? I mean would it be a
totally different sex or a differing degree of maleness or femaleness?
Doug Bosco bosco@interaccess.com