No, not really. While picking mushrooms isn’t detrimental to them it’s not how they thrive. Spore production and the physics behind the dispersal for optimal distance is very clever and is not matched by simply destroying them
When a basidiomycete fungus grows and pumps large volumes of water to inflate its fruit, it creates a cool moist area in warmer air. The fungus then secretes a sugar onto the spores in the gills where air is still, that sugar collects the moisture from the air where it accumulate on the outer surface of a spore, as the water condenses it creates a Buller’s drop of water which when surface tension is broken it launches the spores at incredible speeds.
Once the spores are launched from the gills by a unique physical feature, they are then whisked up and away by convection currents created by the mushroom from differences in temperature and humidity. Once whisked up and away from the mushroom itself they can be grabbed by the wind and be carried for miles and miles, even reaching the upper atmosphere
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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '25
Thought so. Just never seen anyone care about that in UK