Mushrooms Used to Clean E. Coli from Rivers and Immediately Implemented in England 🍄 💧

3 days ago by Blair to c/upliftingnews

The mushrooms in question were the very delicious and very helpful turkey tail, and the pollution in question was sewage

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/...

"The application was ever so simple: a bag of woodchips impregnated with turkey tail spores left at the bottom of the river. The mycelia, or filament system of the mushroom, filtered out 80% of the E. coli, 83% of the phosphorous, and 35% of the nitrogen."

Hayduke 30 points 3 days ago

That title is making me feel like I am having a stroke.

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paraphrand 28 points 3 days ago

Mushrooms are pretty awesome.

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Ekpu 7 points 3 days ago

"The mushrooms in question were the very delicious and very helpful turkey tail..." No clue where this idea comes from. You can barely eat them. You could use them as chewing gum. But very delicious is a stretch.

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nousername 3 points 2 days ago

And then at the end it says they can absorb nuclear fallout. Great idea, eat radioactive mushrooms.

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Lucius_Sweet 3 points 2 days ago

That's how we get Mushroom Man!

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nousername 2 points a day ago

lol

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PushButton 3 points 3 days ago

Ah!

That might explain why they are tripping with age verifications, jailing protestors and such...

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