Is it necessary to get a piece of the mouth?

[ewaldm]

When you frag a mushroom is it necessary to get a piece of the mouth? A few of the frags I cut last weekend I didn't think that I got a piece of it, but they have started to heal nicely...just curious if it simply has better success rates when you get a piece of it or what?

Thanks

 

[TealCobra]

I don't believe so. I have had a Ricordia Yuma move around on a rock and leave bits of fleshy tissue all over it from their foot. In a short time, new Ricordia were formed from this tissue.

 

[smp]

I had to cut a ricordea florida a while back .. three pieces and only one piece had the mouth. They all made it and the two mouthless pieces are developing mouths.

 

[BillnJennh]

Yeah, that mouth business seems to be an urban myth. You can practically cut any part of a healthy mushroom and have it attach and grow a whole new mushroom, no matter whether or not there was any mouth included.