Talk:Matango/@comment-46337589-20200713211936

It is quite remarkable that they were inspired by the ability of fungi (not only the cordyceps) to parasitize living beings in some way in the case of animal plants and incects there are many cases of human beings can be affected by certain spesies mainly on the skin, it is also not advisable to breathe the spores of these, since some species are usually toxic. In the case of plants, they tend to parasitize the roots or parts of the trunk, stealing nutrients and creating a a net of own roots to distribute the nutrients among the other nests of the original, forming a complex net which can measure kilometers; what is interesting is that they normally keep the tree alive. to guarantee the obtaining of nutrients on a reasonable basis.