3140 x 3836 px | 26,6 x 32,5 cm | 10,5 x 12,8 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
4 novembre 2011
Altre informazioni:
A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its food source. Like all fungi, mushrooms are not plants and do not undergo photosynthesis. The standard for the name 'mushroom’ is the cultivated white button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus; hence the word "mushroom" is most often applied to those fungi ( Basidomycota and Agaricomyetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamella) or pores on the underside of the cap. 'Mushroom' describes a 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 structure usually have more specific names, such as 'puffball', 'stinkhorn' and 'morel '. The Porcelain fungus, Oudemansiella mucida, is specific to beech wood. In autumn it grows on dead trunks and can also appear on fallen branches. Sometimes it also breeds on dead branches high up in living trees. The Porcelain Mushroom is slimy, translucent and all white. The Porcelain fungus commonly occurs between July and October. During wet weather a mucous slime covers the cap.
