Fruit-mimicking Fungi (IMAGE)

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Fruit-mimicking Fungi

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One of New Zealand's many fruit-mimicking fungi (Cortinarius porphyroideus), photographed outside Hodges Creek Cave system, a site containing ancient avian coprolites. These fungi may have been consumed and dispersed by the extinct moa.

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