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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
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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
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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
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Santa Claus flying in his sleigh, christmas, reindeer
Was Santa Claus a Real Person?
A Factory Interior, watercolor, pen and gray ink, graphite, and white goache on wove paper by unknown artist, c. 1871-91; in the Yale Center for British Art. Industrial Revolution England
Inventors and Inventions of the Industrial Revolution
Baseball laying in the grass. Homepage blog 2010, arts and entertainment, history and society, sports and games athletics
10 Greatest Baseball Players of All Time
Los Angeles Police Department wanted flyer on Elizabeth Short, aka the "Black Dahlia," who was brutally murdered in January 1947. The FBI supported the Los Angeles Police Department in the case, including by identifying Short through her fingerprints that
America’s 5 Most Notorious Cold Cases (Including One You May Have Thought Was Already Solved)
Thanksgiving Turkey with all the sides
Why Do We Eat Turkey on Thanksgiving?
Iraqi Army Soldiers from the 9th Mechanized Division learning to operate and maintain M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tanks at Besmaya Combat Training Center, Baghdad, Iraq, 2011. Military training. Iraq war. U.S. Army
8 Deadliest Wars of the 21st Century
Woman tied to a ducking stool, a method of punishment by means of humiliation, beating, or death. (cucking stool)
8 Unusual Punishments Inflicted on Women Throughout History

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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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