A mushroom called Earthstar is spouting spores now, with video

 I went to the usual forest again today to look for mushrooms and so on. On a different forest slope from the one I blogged about the other day, I had already noticed a mushroom called Earthstar that was half-buried in the soil on the slope since last year. Because time has gone by, I completely thought the spores had already released and disappeared from inside the "earthstar", making the spore bag empty. By the way, the so-called the spore bag is called "gleba" in mycology.

This time, I pushed the earthstar with a culm of a bamboo grass. Then a lot of spores spouted out like smoke from the central pore of the spore bag. I was surprised that there were still a lot of spores left in the spore bag. 

Dispersed spores will germinate and make the symbiotic relationship with fine roots of the trees nearby as a ectomycorrhizal fungi, I suppose.

I'd like to show the short video on how the spores are spouted from the mushroom.