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A wild fusion has appeared!
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it's a Morelull / Deerling !

Type: Grass/Fairy
Rarity: common
Rank 1

to try and catch this pokemon,
tell me a cool fact about mushrooms!
use this form below!

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Prompt:

this competition is based upon what mushroom fact made me go "whoa no way" the hardest.

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[Gruffin]

Username: gruffin
User ID: 350106
Link to Starter: Here
Archive:Here
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Prompt:

A fungus in the Malheur National Forest in Oregon is the current record holder for the most massive organism on Earth, being estimated to occupy 3.5 miles of land and weighing 35,000 tons. It is also estimated to be 8,000 years old.

[Bear.]

Username: Bear.
User ID: 268604
Link to Starter: Kamiya
Archive: Drifting Terrace
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Prompt: There's a species called Chlorociboria (or Blue-Green Elf Cups) that dye the wood of trees they grow out of a blue-green color! This dyed wood maintains its coloring and can be used in woodworking. Coloration in wood caused by fungi is called "spalting". Here's a picture!

[Mavi]

Username: Mavi
User ID: 561197
Link to Starter: Boop
Archive: Link
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Prompt:
Prototaxites was an ancient (existing during the Late Silurian to Late Devonian periods) fungus that was the largest organism of it's time period, towering over the earth they were believed at first to be coniferous trees, but in fact the world's first tree like structures we're in fact large mushrooms. Prototaxites towered more than 24 feet(8m) high and was as much as three feet(1m) wide.
They were first discovered in Saudi Arabia in 1859, and from then on they would spark a lot of debate And what they actually were until 2007 when it was discovered to be an ancient breed of liverwort.
It's amazing to think that these giant fungi towered over the earth before the first land vertebrate even existed

[Buzz Aesthetic]

Username: Buzz Aesthetic
User ID: 974808
Link to Starter: Eggsnatcher
Archive: Team: Best Team
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Prompt: Mushrooms are closer related to humans than they are to plants!
In fact, when mushrooms are exposed to sunlight, they produce vitamin D, just like humans!

[cinerious]

Username: cinerious
User ID: 242408
Link to Starter: Eepy
Archive: Vertcatch Sanctuary
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Mushrooms create their own wind to release their spores. They essentially use their own moisture by releasing water vapor to create small localized air streams. The vapor cools and causes cells to move around the area (aka wind)!!

[crowful]

Username: crowful
User ID: 936521
Link to Starter: xx
Archive: xx
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Prompt: the mycelium network of some fungi can form an underground connection between trees and help them exchange nutrients with each other, or even warn each other against threats like parasites!

[CO1LD]

Username: CO1LD
User ID: 669164
Link to starter: {+w+}
Archive: 'Obdurate Observer'

Turkey tail contains two polysaccharide peptides with impressive immune-enhancing properties - krestin, or polysaccharide-K (PSK) and polysaccharide peptide (PSP). Research has shown that PSP increases monocytes, a type of white blood cell that is an important defender of the immune system. Due to these abilities, turkey tail is use in approved drugs in Japan and China! They are often given to patients with weakened immune systems.

[BigFrog4231]

Username: Bigfrog4231
User ID: 1004265
Link to Starter: Thunderfang
Archive: Talonhold Gulch
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Prompt:

Schizophyllum commune, commonly known as the Splitgill Mushroom, is not only found on every continent (besides Antarctica), but also has 23,328 distinct mating types, all of which can make fertile pairs (except for 368 mating types).

also i think they look cool!
picture of mushroom (put it as a url bc i know some ppl dont like to see molds/fungi :3)

[BadgerBuddies]

Username: BadgerBuddies
User ID: 68823
Link to Starter: need to post a thread for her but a wip:,)
Archive: x
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Prompt: fact from farwestfungi.com regarding the “Santa Claus mushroom” aka the Fly Agaric

“ Santa is real -- and he was once a mushroom! Folklorists theorize that some of the Jolly Old Elf’s origins come from Nordic Shamanic practices. Early Arctic shamans celebrated the winter solstice by dressing in red and white, and giving the mushroom Amanita muscaria as gifts. You will probably recognize this mushroom (commonly called Fly Agaric), as the classic red and white spotted toadstool. In these early rites, shamans would drop these gifts down the open top of their neighbor’s teepee. Chimney story starting to sound familiar? Amanita muscaria commonly grows at the base of conifer trees like pine, spruce, and fir. Gifts under the tree? These Nordic communities based their livelihoods off of their domestication of reindeer...”