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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Slap 'em with the thing that says mushrooms have like 28 thousand genders and develop new ones all the time.

[–] pageflight@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

TIL.

[T]he fungi can mate with nearly every individual of their species they meet. [...] 23,000 different sexual identities, a result of widespread differentiation in the genetic locations that govern its sexual behavior.

Why is it useful to call them sexual identities then? Are exact matches not able to mate?

[–] HylicManoeuvre@mander.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

"sexual identities" lmao way to anthropomorphize freaking mushrooms 🤣

They're called mating types and are not at all comparable to the aforementioned, entirely human, concept