Yep, Schizophyllum commune, a highly schizoid mushroom, apparently has ~23000 genders. Next time a conservative complains about LGBT people making genders too complicated I’m going to throw a porcini at them.
Sorta. Shroom have “mating types,” which basically determines which ones can reproduce together. It’s the closest thing to a “biological sex” they have, though the similarities mostly end there. And yes, the split-gill mushroom has over 20,000 “sexes”.
isn’t there a species of fungi with a couple tens of thousands of genders
Yep, Schizophyllum commune, a highly schizoid mushroom, apparently has ~23000 genders. Next time a conservative complains about LGBT people making genders too complicated I’m going to throw a porcini at them.
Maybe they’ll learn some morels
Sorta. Shroom have “mating types,” which basically determines which ones can reproduce together. It’s the closest thing to a “biological sex” they have, though the similarities mostly end there. And yes, the split-gill mushroom has over 20,000 “sexes”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physarum_polycephalum ?