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These Started Secreting Something? (lemmy.world)
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[–] H2207@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Looks like they might be trying to grow their mycelia network, for those that don't know a mycelia network is like the roots of a tree but for mushrooms. Mycelia networks span almost entire forests, they are key to distributing nutrients and recent studies are showing that some trees communicate to their offspring through it.

I don't know for certain, not an expert on the subject. This is my best guess.