An idea about pouch fungi in New Zealand.
I have no idea how plausible this is, but could there be a virus that ordinarily circulates in the popular of its endemic host species, that occasionally has a mutation allowing it to infect mushrooms, where is inserts the gene(s) causing them to grow in the pouch form?
If it is ordinary dependant on circulation in the population of an endemic species this could explain the excessive number of pouch fungi in NZ.
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