{"id":2397,"date":"2012-10-25T23:10:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mysabah.com\/wordpress\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2020-10-27T19:39:39","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T11:39:39","slug":"fungus-spores-dispersal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mysabah.com\/wordpress\/fungus-spores-dispersal\/","title":{"rendered":"Smoking Fungus (spores dispersal)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Borneo forest has rich variety of mushroom and fungi, and Mycologists describe Sabah as an El Dorado <\/em>for fungi experts. Personally I had seen hundreds of fungus species in different shape, size and color during my jungle trekking<\/a>. Just check out my fungi photos<\/a>, some may not even have a name.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen I was walking in the mangrove forest of Kinabatangan<\/a>, I spotted this huge fungus (see photo above) on a tree. Someone calls it Monkey Stool or Monkey Chair Fungus, as it’s big enough for a monkey to sit on<\/strong>. Maybe it is a some kind of Bracket fungi or Shelf fungi.<\/p>\n

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\nIt’s a parasitic fungus growing on living tree. Look so big and heavy, I’ll be rich if it is a Lingzhi<\/em>, a highly valuable mushroom used in traditional Chinese medicines.<\/p>\n

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\nThis is the biggest fungus that I’ve ever seen<\/strong>, so I checked it out closely. I noticed some tip-like structure at the bottom. I have no idea whether they are spore-producing asci or sacs. Anyway, I took a few photos and left and thought that’s.<\/p>\n

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\nLater I came back to this place again for a night walk. I scanned every tree with my torchlight, in search for nocturnal wildlife such as slow loris and civet. Then I saw a plume of white mist swirling upward from this fungus, as if it was on fire. A spore dispersal was happening! I couldn’t see the tiny spores, but I knew millions of spores were being spread<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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\nThough it was a windless night, the cloud of spores drifted slowly through the slightest breeze, forming various smoke figures in air. The following is a video of spore dispersal that I found in another location of Sabah.<\/p>\n