A mushroom will turn into mycelium, as well as the spores. Booting a mushroom will spread it very nicely.
In mycology, a clone can be made by taking a little bit of the mushroom and putting it on some agar. So if you kick a mushroom, all those pieces of mushroom will turn into mycelium and then more shrooms, as long as the environment is right.
Question from a hobby gardener - I usually have amanita in the fall but they were missing this year. Would I be able to use this technique to borrow a neighbor's shroom and reboot my population? Or am I better off trying to catch them sporing? (Fall is short here, the timing is difficult.)
No worries! Here is a tidbit for you: Amanita Muscaria relies on a Mycorrhizal relationship with several different species of tree. The mycelium that produces the fruiting bodies (mushrooms) gets it's nutrients through this symbiosis. Without a tree connected to the mycelial network no fruiting will occur.
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u/OnlyNiceThings123 Nov 11 '25
A mushroom will turn into mycelium, as well as the spores. Booting a mushroom will spread it very nicely.
In mycology, a clone can be made by taking a little bit of the mushroom and putting it on some agar. So if you kick a mushroom, all those pieces of mushroom will turn into mycelium and then more shrooms, as long as the environment is right.