Adaptations
These Adaptations help this fungi to grow by spreading it seeds through its spores, to keep the species survival going. The adaptations also keeps its survival by exchanging nutrients with other trees around them. The fungi grows at the roots of trees to penetrate the roots and get easy access to water to survive and also to spread their spores in a bigger surface area.
Structural Adaptations
- On the fungi's red cap has tons and tons of spores, which will hopefully carry on this specie
- The gills of the fungi have adapted and now have changed themselves in a vertical position to get the most from it
- E.g. if placed on its side, the stem of the aminita muscaria will bend away from the ground by using negative gravitropism, which then helps the cap to be parallel to the ground and the gills facing down, by using these two adaptations the range of spore distribution is increased and maximised
- The gills of the fungi have adapted and now have changed themselves in a vertical position to get the most from it
- E.g. if placed on its side, the stem of the aminita muscaria will bend away from the ground by using negative gravitropism, which then helps the cap to be parallel to the ground and the gills facing down, by using these two adaptations the range of spore distribution is increased and maximised
Physiological Adaptations
- The Fungi penetrates the cortex cells of the roots which then causes nutrient exchange, such as water,sugars (produced by the tree by photosynthesis)
Behavioural Adaptations
- The Aminita muscaria is dependent on trees for water and sugar, as the tree is dependent on the Fungi
- The fungi forms a bond with trees by forming a sheath around the bottom of the tree and the roots, this increases the surface area at the roots, which therefore increases and maximizes water uptake
- The fungi forms a bond with trees by forming a sheath around the bottom of the tree and the roots, this increases the surface area at the roots, which therefore increases and maximizes water uptake