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gilled mushroom
Can you tell edible mushrooms from poisonous ones?
mushroom cultivation panther cap mushroom
Do mushrooms need sunlight?
honey mushroom fairy ring artist's conk
Are fungi plants?
Puffball fruiting bodies
For Students
mushroom summary
Quizzes
Ceviche. Peruvian ceviche (sebiche). Raw seafood dish with lime, cilantro, peppers, plantains. Cuisine, food
A World of Food Quiz
Chef tossing vegetables in a frying pan over a burner (skillet, food).
What’s on the Menu? Vocabulary Quiz
Grains and spices in bags, India. (Indian, vendor, market, food)
Ultimate Foodie Quiz
Mushrooms growing in forest. (vegetable; fungus; mushroom; macrofungi; epigeous)
Science at Random Quiz
Read Next
Food. Pizza. Basil. Tomato.
Why Is Pizza So Popular in the U.S.?
Gills of three old specimens of webcap fungus (Cortinarius) in Gloucestershire, South West England. toxic, fungi, poisonous mushroom
7 of the World’s Most Poisonous Mushrooms
Discover
Title: Senate Square, St. Petersburg, December 14, 1825: repression of the troop mutiny - watercolor by Carl Ivanovitch Kollman, 1825 depicts Decembrist uprising clashing with cavalry, with spectators watching. (new style December 26, 1825) Europe. Saint
8 of the Largest Empires in History
Fish. Lionfish. Lion-fish. Turkey fish. Fire-fish. Red lionfish. Pterois volitans. Venomous fin spines. Coral reefs. Underwater. Ocean. Red lionfish swims by seaweed.
10 of the World’s Most Dangerous Fish
The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
New Seven Wonders of the World
Shah Jahan. Taj Mahal. Mughal architecture. Emperor Shah Jahan fifth Mughal Emperor (reigned 1628-1658) India, Himachal Pradesh, Basohli or Jammu and Kashmir, Mankot, circa 1690 Drawings; Opaque watercolor, gold, and ink on paper (see notes)
6 Important Mughal Emperors
bird. mourning dove. pigeon and dove. Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) family Columbidae.
Nikola Tesla's Weird Obsession with Pigeons
Data analysis of the Super Bowl's "winningest" teams, game locations, MVP winners by position, teams with the most game losses. football, sports, infographic
From Sport to Spectacle: The History of the Super Bowl
Sailboat against a beautiful landscape
Which Waters Do You Pass Through When You “Sail the Seven Seas”?

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Can you tell edible mushrooms from poisonous ones?
Poisonous mushrooms.
Video: © American Chemical Society (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
Do mushrooms need sunlight?
What is food for a mushroom? That depends.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Are fungi plants?
There are fungus among us. How well do we understand them?
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Witness the growing and dying of the fly agaric
Time-lapse video, filmed by Neil Bromhall, of the growing and dying of the fly agaric...
Video: Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
The role of fungi in forest decomposition
The role of fungi in the decomposition of forest litter.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Behold a time-lapse video of a mushroom cap's emergence from the ground
Time-lapse photography of a mushroom's cap (pileus) emerging from the ground
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Witness a group of mushrooms growing underwater and revealing gills on their caps' undersides
Time-lapse photography of mushrooms growing. Spores are produced on gills visible...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
See the mechanical growth of mushroom as they survive feeding on plants and animals
The primary mechanism of fungal growth is through the elongation of hyphae. The complex...
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Study the different ways mushrooms release spores and watch mold hyphae spread across bread
Fungi produce billions of spores that give rise to new generations of fungi.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.

Images

gilled mushroom
Close-up of mushroom growing on field.
© Karim Qubadi—500px/Getty Images
mushroom cultivation
Common white, or button, mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus) being cultivated...
© VladimirGerasimov—iStock/Getty Images
panther cap mushroom
Panther cap mushrooms (Amanita pantherina). Closely related to the death...
© asfloro/Fotolia
honey mushroom
Honey mushroom (Armillaria mellea)
H.R. Allen—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
fairy ring
Amanita alba, a species of mushroom, can grow into a large fungal colony...
L.N. and Anella Dexter
artist's conk
Artist's conk (Ganoderma applanatum), a bracket fungi. Distributed worldwide,...
Eric Steinert
Puffball fruiting bodies
Common puffball mushrooms (Lycoperdon perlatum) growing on the forest floor.
© RobertAx/iStock.com
ear fungus
Ear fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae) edible fungus found on dead tree...
© Stephan Pietzko/Dreamstime.com
death cap mushroom
Death cap mushroom (Amanita phalloides).
© Dariusz Majgier/Shutterstock.com
honey mushroom
A cluster of honey mushrooms (Armillaria mellea).
Strobilomyces
Amanita pantherina, commonly called panther cap, is a type of toadstool,...
L. Hugh Newman—NHPA/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
A mushroom typically consists of a stalk (stipe) and a cap (pileus). As the mushroom...
© Merriam-Webster Inc.
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