Plausibility of Mushroom Buildings
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How plausible would buildings made inside of, or made using, giant mushrooms be?
Copyright Raphael Lacoste 2018
A staple of the fatasy genre, mushrooms have commonly been seen as magical and unusual. Often we see houses and structures made inside of these mushrooms by magical or nature-loving individuals, but how possible would this be?
If we assume that they could grow (either through magical or natural means) could you make a house inside of, or using, the giant mushrooms? To qualify as a house, it needs to be someone’s permanent place of residence and contain at least one room.
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How plausible would buildings made inside of, or made using, giant mushrooms be?
Copyright Raphael Lacoste 2018
A staple of the fatasy genre, mushrooms have commonly been seen as magical and unusual. Often we see houses and structures made inside of these mushrooms by magical or nature-loving individuals, but how possible would this be?
If we assume that they could grow (either through magical or natural means) could you make a house inside of, or using, the giant mushrooms? To qualify as a house, it needs to be someone’s permanent place of residence and contain at least one room.
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@JBH Thank you. I have edited out the second, less important question. I thought that the two would have been closely-related enough as to not appear too broad but better safe than sorry.
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How plausible would buildings made inside of, or made using, giant mushrooms be?
Copyright Raphael Lacoste 2018
A staple of the fatasy genre, mushrooms have commonly been seen as magical and unusual. Often we see houses and structures made inside of these mushrooms by magical or nature-loving individuals, but how possible would this be?
If we assume that they could grow (either through magical or natural means) could you make a house inside of, or using, the giant mushrooms? To qualify as a house, it needs to be someone’s permanent place of residence and contain at least one room.
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How plausible would buildings made inside of, or made using, giant mushrooms be?
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A staple of the fatasy genre, mushrooms have commonly been seen as magical and unusual. Often we see houses and structures made inside of these mushrooms by magical or nature-loving individuals, but how possible would this be?
If we assume that they could grow (either through magical or natural means) could you make a house inside of, or using, the giant mushrooms? To qualify as a house, it needs to be someone’s permanent place of residence and contain at least one room.
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Prototaxites!
Fossil mushrooms are rarities. Mushrooms are the fungal equivalent of flowers - spongy, ephemeral, disposable bodies generated to serve a reproductive need. You could not use mushrooms for wood.
The prototaxites were not mushrooms. They were large and substantial; up to 7 meters high.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/
They were not temporary structures like mushrooms, but perennial like trees. I deduce this from the presence of growth rings in the fossil prototaxites.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Transversely-sectioned-Prototaxites-fossil-This-overview-image-originating-from-a_fig1_51174561
The presence of rings means this structure endured shifts in growing conditions over time. This thing was there for many seasons. On earth, that means it weathered storms and wind: no small feat for an upright thing this size.
There is an analogous modern fungus: the bracket fungus aka "shelf fungus".
The shelf is also a spore-making body but a permanent one, and it also can persist many seasons, laying down growth rings with the seasons. Bracket fungi are as tough as wood.
https://herbarium.usu.edu/fun-with-fungi/shelf-fungi
Woody shelves may be several years old. They add a new layer of spore
tissue every growing season. The old layer is covered by the new one.
These layers look like growth rings in a tree. One author reported
counting 37 rings. Ten layers may mean the shelf is 10 years-old if
there is only one growing season (spring). If there are two growing
seasons per year (spring and fall), it may only be 5 years-old.
One of the largest shelves weighs 300 pounds…
Woody shelves are impossible to break with your hands and difficult to
cut. This toughness results from the kinds of hyphae (filaments) that
are used to construct the shelf. Easily crushed mushrooms are made of
thin-walled hyphae. Some of the hyphae in woody shelves are
thick-walled and the hyphae are interwoven making them tougher. They
resist tearing or splitting because there are no planes to split along
in the tissue.
A bracket fungus large enough could be used for wood. The medium to small ones are used to make real shelves and durable beads.
It is reasonable to assume the prototaxites were of a composition similar to modern bracket fungi and so suitable for use as a wood equivalent. A redwood-sized Prototaxite could be hollowed out and used as a dwelling.
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Buildings made out of mushrooms already exist, so I would say that the plausibility is very high. The vegetative part of the fungus, called mycelium, can be fashioned into to "bricks" by growing them in brick shaped molds and adding in some corn husks. Using these "bricks" a builder can construct many different types of buildings.
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The thing about mushrooms is that they grow on decay; on dead wood, plant matter and organic waste. They require either the fuel of other plants, or the symbiosis with them. In the latter case, there would either have to be millennia of cultivation and harmony between the humans and mushrooms, allowing for enough food to be provided to the mushrooms to allow for them to grow and be relatively stable. Or, trees that are large enough to support mushroom tree-houses.
So to try and answer your question, I think growing house sized mushrooms is out of the question, esp. wrt their decay cycles and relative softness. However, mushroom mattresses growing on trees could be a nice substitute.
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Can you tell me more about these mushroom tree-houses and mushroom matresses?
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Prototaxites!
Fossil mushrooms are rarities. Mushrooms are the fungal equivalent of flowers - spongy, ephemeral, disposable bodies generated to serve a reproductive need. You could not use mushrooms for wood.
The prototaxites were not mushrooms. They were large and substantial; up to 7 meters high.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/
They were not temporary structures like mushrooms, but perennial like trees. I deduce this from the presence of growth rings in the fossil prototaxites.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Transversely-sectioned-Prototaxites-fossil-This-overview-image-originating-from-a_fig1_51174561
The presence of rings means this structure endured shifts in growing conditions over time. This thing was there for many seasons. On earth, that means it weathered storms and wind: no small feat for an upright thing this size.
There is an analogous modern fungus: the bracket fungus aka "shelf fungus".
The shelf is also a spore-making body but a permanent one, and it also can persist many seasons, laying down growth rings with the seasons. Bracket fungi are as tough as wood.
https://herbarium.usu.edu/fun-with-fungi/shelf-fungi
Woody shelves may be several years old. They add a new layer of spore
tissue every growing season. The old layer is covered by the new one.
These layers look like growth rings in a tree. One author reported
counting 37 rings. Ten layers may mean the shelf is 10 years-old if
there is only one growing season (spring). If there are two growing
seasons per year (spring and fall), it may only be 5 years-old.
One of the largest shelves weighs 300 pounds…
Woody shelves are impossible to break with your hands and difficult to
cut. This toughness results from the kinds of hyphae (filaments) that
are used to construct the shelf. Easily crushed mushrooms are made of
thin-walled hyphae. Some of the hyphae in woody shelves are
thick-walled and the hyphae are interwoven making them tougher. They
resist tearing or splitting because there are no planes to split along
in the tissue.
A bracket fungus large enough could be used for wood. The medium to small ones are used to make real shelves and durable beads.
It is reasonable to assume the prototaxites were of a composition similar to modern bracket fungi and so suitable for use as a wood equivalent. A redwood-sized Prototaxite could be hollowed out and used as a dwelling.
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Prototaxites!
Fossil mushrooms are rarities. Mushrooms are the fungal equivalent of flowers - spongy, ephemeral, disposable bodies generated to serve a reproductive need. You could not use mushrooms for wood.
The prototaxites were not mushrooms. They were large and substantial; up to 7 meters high.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/
They were not temporary structures like mushrooms, but perennial like trees. I deduce this from the presence of growth rings in the fossil prototaxites.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Transversely-sectioned-Prototaxites-fossil-This-overview-image-originating-from-a_fig1_51174561
The presence of rings means this structure endured shifts in growing conditions over time. This thing was there for many seasons. On earth, that means it weathered storms and wind: no small feat for an upright thing this size.
There is an analogous modern fungus: the bracket fungus aka "shelf fungus".
The shelf is also a spore-making body but a permanent one, and it also can persist many seasons, laying down growth rings with the seasons. Bracket fungi are as tough as wood.
https://herbarium.usu.edu/fun-with-fungi/shelf-fungi
Woody shelves may be several years old. They add a new layer of spore
tissue every growing season. The old layer is covered by the new one.
These layers look like growth rings in a tree. One author reported
counting 37 rings. Ten layers may mean the shelf is 10 years-old if
there is only one growing season (spring). If there are two growing
seasons per year (spring and fall), it may only be 5 years-old.
One of the largest shelves weighs 300 pounds…
Woody shelves are impossible to break with your hands and difficult to
cut. This toughness results from the kinds of hyphae (filaments) that
are used to construct the shelf. Easily crushed mushrooms are made of
thin-walled hyphae. Some of the hyphae in woody shelves are
thick-walled and the hyphae are interwoven making them tougher. They
resist tearing or splitting because there are no planes to split along
in the tissue.
A bracket fungus large enough could be used for wood. The medium to small ones are used to make real shelves and durable beads.
It is reasonable to assume the prototaxites were of a composition similar to modern bracket fungi and so suitable for use as a wood equivalent. A redwood-sized Prototaxite could be hollowed out and used as a dwelling.
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Prototaxites!
Fossil mushrooms are rarities. Mushrooms are the fungal equivalent of flowers - spongy, ephemeral, disposable bodies generated to serve a reproductive need. You could not use mushrooms for wood.
The prototaxites were not mushrooms. They were large and substantial; up to 7 meters high.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/
They were not temporary structures like mushrooms, but perennial like trees. I deduce this from the presence of growth rings in the fossil prototaxites.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Transversely-sectioned-Prototaxites-fossil-This-overview-image-originating-from-a_fig1_51174561
The presence of rings means this structure endured shifts in growing conditions over time. This thing was there for many seasons. On earth, that means it weathered storms and wind: no small feat for an upright thing this size.
There is an analogous modern fungus: the bracket fungus aka "shelf fungus".
The shelf is also a spore-making body but a permanent one, and it also can persist many seasons, laying down growth rings with the seasons. Bracket fungi are as tough as wood.
https://herbarium.usu.edu/fun-with-fungi/shelf-fungi
Woody shelves may be several years old. They add a new layer of spore
tissue every growing season. The old layer is covered by the new one.
These layers look like growth rings in a tree. One author reported
counting 37 rings. Ten layers may mean the shelf is 10 years-old if
there is only one growing season (spring). If there are two growing
seasons per year (spring and fall), it may only be 5 years-old.
One of the largest shelves weighs 300 pounds…
Woody shelves are impossible to break with your hands and difficult to
cut. This toughness results from the kinds of hyphae (filaments) that
are used to construct the shelf. Easily crushed mushrooms are made of
thin-walled hyphae. Some of the hyphae in woody shelves are
thick-walled and the hyphae are interwoven making them tougher. They
resist tearing or splitting because there are no planes to split along
in the tissue.
A bracket fungus large enough could be used for wood. The medium to small ones are used to make real shelves and durable beads.
It is reasonable to assume the prototaxites were of a composition similar to modern bracket fungi and so suitable for use as a wood equivalent. A redwood-sized Prototaxite could be hollowed out and used as a dwelling.
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Prototaxites!
Fossil mushrooms are rarities. Mushrooms are the fungal equivalent of flowers - spongy, ephemeral, disposable bodies generated to serve a reproductive need. You could not use mushrooms for wood.
The prototaxites were not mushrooms. They were large and substantial; up to 7 meters high.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-trees-overtook-the-land-earth-was-covered-by-giant-mushrooms-13709647/
They were not temporary structures like mushrooms, but perennial like trees. I deduce this from the presence of growth rings in the fossil prototaxites.
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Transversely-sectioned-Prototaxites-fossil-This-overview-image-originating-from-a_fig1_51174561
The presence of rings means this structure endured shifts in growing conditions over time. This thing was there for many seasons. On earth, that means it weathered storms and wind: no small feat for an upright thing this size.
There is an analogous modern fungus: the bracket fungus aka "shelf fungus".
The shelf is also a spore-making body but a permanent one, and it also can persist many seasons, laying down growth rings with the seasons. Bracket fungi are as tough as wood.
https://herbarium.usu.edu/fun-with-fungi/shelf-fungi
Woody shelves may be several years old. They add a new layer of spore
tissue every growing season. The old layer is covered by the new one.
These layers look like growth rings in a tree. One author reported
counting 37 rings. Ten layers may mean the shelf is 10 years-old if
there is only one growing season (spring). If there are two growing
seasons per year (spring and fall), it may only be 5 years-old.
One of the largest shelves weighs 300 pounds…
Woody shelves are impossible to break with your hands and difficult to
cut. This toughness results from the kinds of hyphae (filaments) that
are used to construct the shelf. Easily crushed mushrooms are made of
thin-walled hyphae. Some of the hyphae in woody shelves are
thick-walled and the hyphae are interwoven making them tougher. They
resist tearing or splitting because there are no planes to split along
in the tissue.
A bracket fungus large enough could be used for wood. The medium to small ones are used to make real shelves and durable beads.
It is reasonable to assume the prototaxites were of a composition similar to modern bracket fungi and so suitable for use as a wood equivalent. A redwood-sized Prototaxite could be hollowed out and used as a dwelling.
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Buildings made out of mushrooms already exist, so I would say that the plausibility is very high. The vegetative part of the fungus, called mycelium, can be fashioned into to "bricks" by growing them in brick shaped molds and adding in some corn husks. Using these "bricks" a builder can construct many different types of buildings.
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@d-b I've flagged your comment as offensive. If you were able to see the edit history and the voting history then you would understand why I made the comment I did, and see that I upvoted the answer once the edit had been made. When you have more experience you will see.
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Buildings made out of mushrooms already exist, so I would say that the plausibility is very high. The vegetative part of the fungus, called mycelium, can be fashioned into to "bricks" by growing them in brick shaped molds and adding in some corn husks. Using these "bricks" a builder can construct many different types of buildings.
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@d-b I've flagged your comment as offensive. If you were able to see the edit history and the voting history then you would understand why I made the comment I did, and see that I upvoted the answer once the edit had been made. When you have more experience you will see.
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Buildings made out of mushrooms already exist, so I would say that the plausibility is very high. The vegetative part of the fungus, called mycelium, can be fashioned into to "bricks" by growing them in brick shaped molds and adding in some corn husks. Using these "bricks" a builder can construct many different types of buildings.
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Buildings made out of mushrooms already exist, so I would say that the plausibility is very high. The vegetative part of the fungus, called mycelium, can be fashioned into to "bricks" by growing them in brick shaped molds and adding in some corn husks. Using these "bricks" a builder can construct many different types of buildings.
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The thing about mushrooms is that they grow on decay; on dead wood, plant matter and organic waste. They require either the fuel of other plants, or the symbiosis with them. In the latter case, there would either have to be millennia of cultivation and harmony between the humans and mushrooms, allowing for enough food to be provided to the mushrooms to allow for them to grow and be relatively stable. Or, trees that are large enough to support mushroom tree-houses.
So to try and answer your question, I think growing house sized mushrooms is out of the question, esp. wrt their decay cycles and relative softness. However, mushroom mattresses growing on trees could be a nice substitute.
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Can you tell me more about these mushroom tree-houses and mushroom matresses?
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The thing about mushrooms is that they grow on decay; on dead wood, plant matter and organic waste. They require either the fuel of other plants, or the symbiosis with them. In the latter case, there would either have to be millennia of cultivation and harmony between the humans and mushrooms, allowing for enough food to be provided to the mushrooms to allow for them to grow and be relatively stable. Or, trees that are large enough to support mushroom tree-houses.
So to try and answer your question, I think growing house sized mushrooms is out of the question, esp. wrt their decay cycles and relative softness. However, mushroom mattresses growing on trees could be a nice substitute.
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Can you tell me more about these mushroom tree-houses and mushroom matresses?
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– Liam Morris
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The thing about mushrooms is that they grow on decay; on dead wood, plant matter and organic waste. They require either the fuel of other plants, or the symbiosis with them. In the latter case, there would either have to be millennia of cultivation and harmony between the humans and mushrooms, allowing for enough food to be provided to the mushrooms to allow for them to grow and be relatively stable. Or, trees that are large enough to support mushroom tree-houses.
So to try and answer your question, I think growing house sized mushrooms is out of the question, esp. wrt their decay cycles and relative softness. However, mushroom mattresses growing on trees could be a nice substitute.
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The thing about mushrooms is that they grow on decay; on dead wood, plant matter and organic waste. They require either the fuel of other plants, or the symbiosis with them. In the latter case, there would either have to be millennia of cultivation and harmony between the humans and mushrooms, allowing for enough food to be provided to the mushrooms to allow for them to grow and be relatively stable. Or, trees that are large enough to support mushroom tree-houses.
So to try and answer your question, I think growing house sized mushrooms is out of the question, esp. wrt their decay cycles and relative softness. However, mushroom mattresses growing on trees could be a nice substitute.
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Welcome to Worldbuilding.SE! We're glad you could join us! When you have a moment, please click here to learn more about our culture and take our tour. The SE model is one-specific-question/one-best-answer. You've asked multiple questions, which will likely get the question closed as too broad. Can you narrow this down to one, specific question? (You can always ask more questions.)
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– JBH
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@JBH Thank you. I have edited out the second, less important question. I thought that the two would have been closely-related enough as to not appear too broad but better safe than sorry.
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– Liam Morris
9 hours ago