Winter Mushroom - Flammulina velutipes |
But I wonder if growing in cold weather when no other mushrooms are growing gives it some kind of advantage. Maybe the spores have a better chance of developing and dispersing in the cooler weather when there aren't many or any slugs, bugs, bacteria, etc to eat them. Or maybe mushroom mycelia compete for space in rotten stumps and logs and F. velutipes gets a head start by sending out spores when other mushrooms aren't out.
My next question is: if there is an advantage to growing in the cold, why don't more species of mushrooms do it?
I've posted about F. velutipes a couple of other times. You can get a bit more information here and here.