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what's your favorite fungus that isnt a mushroom

Oh ho ho this is a wonderful question!

So things in the fungi family that aren’t mushrooms are molds, yeasts, rusts, mildews and… smuts. Ignore that last one. They’re basically just corn parasites, and someone saw one and decided to call it a smut.

I’m gonna be real, I probably like yeast the most. Because I can use it to make tasty cinnamon buns! As ashamed as I am to admit it, I don’t know very much about fungi that don’t have fruiting bodies that could be considered mushrooms. My greatest shortcoming.

There are some fungal adjacent organisms I love and know about though, like mycoheterotrophs, fungus-like protists and lichen!