wrapping my head around O vs CO2 and fungi + sugar

[Jaeda]

okay, colour me confused... does mycelium eat up oxygen and emit CO2? Or vice versa like with terrestrial plants (eat up CO2 and emit O)? And once no longer mycelium, but an actual mushroom or toadstool - what, if anything, does it do or have to do with either of those? Will a mushroom - matured mycelium - put off oxygen or CO2? I'm not sure if I've encountered misleading or conflicting info in trying to find some other info. From my, for lack of a better word, spiritual perspective, fungi are "in-between" 'plants' - not really a plant, but not a mineral either... subsequently all of the great lore about them. But what about their chemical (in this case specifically O and CO2) interactions with their environment?

And what is the effect of sugar on mycelium? Like beet sugar/water solution? Would mycelium have any real use for it, or would it just end up fermenting or something?

[Floyd01]

First of all fungi are not inbetween plants they are actually more closly related to animals, recently being combined with the animalia family to make Opisthokontae (sp?). As such they don't photosynthesize (using C02 and emitting O2) they respirate (using 02 and emitting CO2) and they do this in all their forms. The mushroom that you see is solely the fruit of the mycelial mass.

Sugar is food to fungi, in fact fermentation is caused by fungi.

as for being inbetween plant and mineral....i guess man. but thats pretty broad effin' catagory.


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