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Do mushrooms need sunlight?
What is food for a mushroom? That depends.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Know about the role of fungi in the forest ecosystem, where some digest plant matter, while others team with the plant (mycorrhizal) mutually
Learn about fungi in the forest ecosystem, including how some fungi digest plant...
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)

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bracket fungus
Saprotrophic bracket fungi decomposing a dead tree.
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E. coli
False-color image of Escherichia coli, a species of Gram-negative anaerobic...
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water mold
Saprolegnia, a type of water mold, on a dead insect nymph.
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saprotrophism
Many fungi are saprotrophic—i.e., they obtain nutrients from dead organic matter.
© Alan Watson/Forest Light
pinesaps
Pinesaps (Monotropa hypopitys) are saprophytes with little photosynthetic...
© E.R. Degginger
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