Colorful
mushrooms.
A mushroom is the fleshy,
spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced
above ground on soil or on its food source. The standard
for the name "mushroom" is the cultivated white
button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus, hence the word mushroom
is most often applied to those fungi (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes)
that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae,
sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap, just as do
store-bought white mushrooms... |
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