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Flying Mushrooms

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Some mushrooms hold their spores in a pod called a peridiole.

When rain falls, droplets can shoot the peridioles out of the mushroom cap.

The peridioles use their sticky hyphae to cling to grass until grazing animals take them for a ride.

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