How do mushrooms grow if they don’t have seeds?

Moment Of Um

Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Education For Kids

4.4 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Have you ever gone outside after a rainy day and seen mushrooms growing in the grass or on tree trunks? How do they get there? We asked urban agriculture specialist Yolanda Gonzalez to help us find the answer. Got a question that’s really growing on you? Send it to us at BrainsOn.org/contact, and we’ll mold an answer for you. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	From the brains behind, brains on, this is Moment of Um.
0:05.9	Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um, Um,
0:11.9	Um, I'm Sand and Totten.
0:14.0	Um.
0:18.1	Ah, spring is in the air.
0:25.1	It's the time of year when those hairy, grisly wonders come out of hiding.
0:29.6	What? No, not bears. I'm talking about my forearms.
0:34.2	They've been hidden in winter sweaters for months. Time to come out, big guys.
0:39.3	It's also time for me to start planting the brainson garden. I've got the whole thing mapped out.
0:42.3	Hmm.
0:43.3	Carrots over here.
0:44.3	Oh, kale down yonder.
0:46.3	This section here for tomatoes, peppers.
0:48.3	Oh, and Mark's spicy peppers.
0:50.3	Mm-hmm.
0:51.3	Gotta have those.
0:52.3	Here we'll do eggplant, which sadly do not hatch, no matter how long you sit on them.
0:57.9	Learn that one the hard way.
1:00.0	Oh, and what did I write over here?
1:03.0	Fry macaroons?
1:05.3	Oh, try mushrooms.
1:08.2	That's right.
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