Showing posts with label fungi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fungi. Show all posts

Sunday, February 28, 2016

LICHEN

Lichens are composite organisms rising from wood, algae and dead leaves stuff like that. Lichens may look like plants, but they are actual fungi, as they use spores instead of seeds and have leafless branches as well as no flowers, as all plants (besides conifers) have flowers, and lichens don't have flowers. 

Thursday, February 25, 2016

BOLETES

Boletes are mushrooms with no gills, instead of gills it has pores that contain spores, some bracket fungus also have pores, but still have difference in DNA.
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MOLD 

A mold is a fungus that grows on old plant materials, such as old fruit and old wood. Molds can form large colonies where the growth of hyphae forms discoloration, and a fuzzy mushy texture, and a fuzzy look. They play important roles in nature. 


There are millions of species of mold with even different ways of life. Most need moist damp surfaces and some grow in aquatic habitats. Like fungi, molds get their nutrient from organic matter, such as wood, other fungi, and dead leaves.    
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MUSHROOMS
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A mushroom, or toad stool, is a fleshy, spore bearing, fruitbody of a fungus, usually growing above ground on soil, or on its food source.


The standard for the name 'mushroom' is usually meaning the cultivated mushroom (the most common used mushroom in markets)  or fungi with a cap (head) a stalk (or stem) and gills (gill like slits which contain spores).