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Ascomycota
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poisonous mushrooms
morel brewer's yeast Zombie-ant fungus ergot earth tongue (Top) Xylaria hypoxlon; (bottom) earth tongue (Geoglossum fallax)
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Ascomycota: Media

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poisonous mushrooms
Poisonous mushrooms.
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morel
Common morel mushroom (Morchella esculenta) growing on the forest floor.
© tomasztc—iStock/Getty Images Plus
brewer's yeast
Saccharomyces cerevisiae, a type of budding yeast, is able to ferment sugar...
A to Z Botanical Collection/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Zombie-ant fungus
A deceased carpenter ant (Camponotus species) infected with zombie-ant fungus...
Oliver Thompson-Holmes/Alamy
ergot
Ergot fungus (Claviceps purpurea) growing on rye grass.
© Manfred Ruckszio/Dreamstime.com
earth tongue
Earth tongue fungi (Geoglossum fallax) have club-shaped fruiting bodies...
(Top) H.R. Allen/Natural History Photographic Agency, (bottom) Donald Van Buskirk
(Top) Xylaria hypoxlon; (bottom) earth tongue (Geoglossum fallax)
(Top) H.R. Allen—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., (bottom) Donald Van Buskirk
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