XPost: alt.drugs.mushrooms, alt.drugs.psychedelics   
   From: smitty@innovate.inv   
      
   In article , ByRequestOnly@cyber-rights.net   
   says...   
   > > >Harvesting a mushroom leaves the mycelium intact and   
   > > >therefore   
   > > >the harvest  harms the organism no more than picking an apple harms the   
   > > >tree....   
   > >   
   > > But people in Japan (and elsewhere)  pick Matsutake before it spores and   
   > perhaps   
   > > this is why Matsutake is now so hard to find in Japan.   No organism lives   
   > > forever, for us to keep having mushrooms there will need to be some   
   > > reproduction.   
   >   
   > Picking a mushroom  DOES NOT harm the parent plant, the mycelium...   
   >   
   >   
   >   
   apple trees tend to have longer lives than fungi mycelium. and   
   using an extreme example if you have rather dirty hands and   
   happen to touch the mycelium while removing the shroom then it   
   is possible to harm the parent. it does not hurt to flood the   
   area with spores while you are there in hopes of creating a new   
   lifecylce.   
      
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