Mushrooms

Well, they sorta do look like them..don't they?

A fungus found in bushland near my home.

This fungus looks like it's peeling but on close inspection, it wasn't . That's just the way it grows.

mushrooms

golden colored mushrooms

Yellow, flower pot 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 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. However, "mushroom" can also refer to a wide variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally to describe both the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota and the woody or leathery fruiting bodies of some Basidiomycota, depending upon the context of the word. Forms deviating from the standard form usually have more specific names, such as "puffball", "stinkhorn", and "morel", and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called "agarics" in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their placement in the order Agaricales. By extension, "mushroom" can also designate the entire fungus when in culture or the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms.

The Mushroom

Some so yummy and some so deadly

stir fried bok choy with mushrooms

like to eat vegetables

Edible Mushrooms

An edible mushroom, I would love to go mushroom hunting this year..

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Extra large mushrooms

Well, i wonder how big the guys that eat that mushroom are... Those are from the park near my home. Photo 2 years ago while i was still in high school.