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[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 37 points 22 hours ago (7 children)

As far as I know there are a lot of fungi that have hundreds or even thousands of mating types, i.e. "sexes". Fungi are weird.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

I've heard that their orgies are as complex as they are awesome

[–] PolarKraken@programming.dev 4 points 20 hours ago

'twas told to me that in many ways they refuse to cooperate with our system of taxonomy at large, too freaky to ever be properly pinned down

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