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Fungus Adventure

It was a hot and humid afternoon; Jay was walking in a field. The air was filled with the fragrance of scented mayweed. Bright poppies sparkled in the grass. Jay heard the squeaks of harvest mice and the chirrups of birds swabbling for grain on the ground. Jay ate some chocolate. It was delicious.

Suddenly, a voice squealed, “Ouch!” Jay had accidentally stepped on a fungus. The fungus quietly giggled and said, “I am Toadstoolmushroomildewmouldlichen.” Jay was surprised! He examined it.

The fungus announced, “I parasitized on trees and grew on peoples toes. I feed on dead leaves and was symbiotic with an alga and a rhododendron and now you have nearly ended my life.”

“I was once a little bulb like blob under the ground. I grew roots, my little head popped out of the soil. I then went to a nearby tree and got a meal from it. All my friends were there too and we killed the tree. I then, grew with an alga on a grave stone. People called me lichen then.

My brother glows in the dark. My sister's name is Athletes Foot and my friends are shiitake mushrooms; always eaten by humans, pigs, parrots, rodents, rabbits and lots of other creatures. People eat mushrooms because they are tasty and healthy. If you want to be healthy eat mushrooms. Mushrooms are good but they are not part of your five a day. Other fungi are useful because they produce bread and drugs. Truffles are mushrooms not chocolate. Most of us fungi live in woods and meadows. We like places that are warm, damp and dark.

My father is a stinkhorn fungus and he feeds flies and some beetles with the goo he excudes. Many of my distant cousins, the microscopic fungi are pests. (Well, so am I, as I am, the imaginary, changing fungus) I live every season and I normally eat dead plants/animals and I parasitize as well. If there were none of my family on this planet, humans would have shorter lives. This is because as we eat dead things we reduce the amount of rubbish on this planet. Without us, rubbish would be in greater numbers and there would be more bacteria that could possibly make you ill.

Soon, I became grey and fluffy and grew on a strawberry. Yum! Yum! An absolute delicacy! That was tasty. I then, went back to the soil and caught eelworms as prey. Next, I became a dry rot and lived on a church brick. I infected potatoes, I snacked on bread. After that, I became poisonous and red with white spots.

Oh, every herbivore was scared of me then. Afterwards, I became an edible stroparia and I still am.” Jay got a piece of him and ate it. Jay felt sick and fell to the ground.

“Har! Har!” the fungus laughed, “I fooled you!”    

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