Mushroom

In fungi, the fruiting body (also known as sporocarp) is a multicellular structure on which spore-producing structures, such as basidia or asci, are borne. The fruiting body is part of the sexual phase of a fungal life cycle, with the rest of the life cycle being characterized by vegetative mycelial growth. Fruiting bodies that are visible to the naked eye, especially fruiting bodies of a more or less agaricoid morphology, are often referred to as mushrooms. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1472x1104, 618 KB) Summary Photo taken by Eraticus. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1472x1104, 618 KB) Summary Photo taken by Eraticus. ... Basidiocarps (mushrooms) of the fungus Leucocoprinus sp. ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Zygomycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota The Fungi (singular: fungus) are a large group of organisms ranked as a kingdom within the Domain Eukaryota. ... Spores produced in a sporic life cycle. ... Basidium is a cell on which the spores of the mushroom are produced. ... ASCI might be an acronym or abbreviation for: Asci (the spore-bearing containers produced in the ascocarps of ascomycete fungi. ... A life cycle is a period involving one generation of an organism through means of reproduction, whether through asexual reproduction or sexual reproduction. ... Wiktionary has related dictionary definitions, such as: vegetative Things commonly known as Vegetative include: Vegetative reproduction Related to Vegetation Vegetative state This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... Mycelium is the vegetative part of a fungus consisting of a mass of branching threadlike hyphae that exists below the ground or within another substrate. ... An agaric is a type of fungal fruiting body characterized by the presence of a pileus that is clearly differentiated from the stipe, with lamellae (gills) on the underside of the pileus. ... Basidiocarps (mushrooms) of the fungus Leucocoprinus sp. ...

If the spores are borne on the club-like cells called basidia, the fruiting body can be called a basidiocarp (or basidioma, plural: basidiomata); if they are in sac-like asci, the fruiting body is an ascocarp (or ascoma, plural: ascomata). An ascocarp is the fruiting body of some ascomycete fungi, containing millions of asci, each of which contains typically eight ascospores. ...

Multicellular spore-producing structures on fungus-like organisms, such as slime molds, and some colonial bacteria, such as the myxobacteria, are also called "fruiting bodies". Typical orders Protostelia    Protosteliida Myxogastria    Liceida    Echinosteliida    Trichiida    Stemonitida    Physarida Dictyostelia    Dictyosteliida Slime moulds are peculiar protists that normally take the form of amoebae, but under certain conditions develop fruiting bodies that release spores, superficially similar to the sporangia of fungi. ... Subgroups Actinobacteria Aquificae Bacteroidetes/Chlorobi Chlamydiae/Verrucomicrobia Chloroflexi Chrysiogenetes Cyanobacteria Deferribacteres Deinococcus-Thermus Dictyoglomi Fibrobacteres/Acidobacteria Firmicutes Fusobacteria Gemmatimonadetes Nitrospirae Planctomycetes Proteobacteria Spirochaetes Thermodesulfobacteria Thermomicrobia Thermotogae Bacteria (singular: bacterium) are a major group of living organisms. ... Families & Genera Archangiaceae    Archangium Cystobacteraceae    Cystobacter    Melittangium    Stigmatella Myxoccaceae    Myxococcus    Angiococcus Polyangiaceae    Chondromyces    Nannocystis    Polyangium The myxobacteria are a group of bacteria that predominantly live in the soil. ...

Fruiting bodies are termed epigeous if they grow on the ground, as with ordinary mushrooms, whilst ones which grow underground, such as truffles are hypogeous. Species Tuber melanosporum Tuber brumale Tuber aestivum Tuber uncinatum Tuber mesentericum Tuber magnatum Truffle describes a group of edible mycorrhizal (subterranean) fungi (genus Tuber, class Ascomycetes, division Mycota). ...