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Colourful fruit-like fungi and forests ‘haunted by species loss’ – how we resolved a 30-year evolutionary mystery

  • Written by Jamie Wood, Senior Lecturer in Ecology and Evolution, University of Adelaide
Colourful fruit-like fungi and forests ‘haunted by species loss’ – how we resolved a 30-year evolutionary mysteryAmy Martin, CC BY-SA

Most fungi need only wind or water to disperse their spores. But some, including truffles, need a little help from animals.

Usually, truffles and truffle-like fungi (which don’t belong to the truffle genus, but are otherwise similar) are dull-coloured and grow underground.

They use scent to attract mammals, which eat them...

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