Wild Mushroom
by Felix Lai
Title
Wild Mushroom
Artist
Felix Lai
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
This photo captures a beautiful wild mushroom in a local park. Contrary to belief, wild mushrooms are hard to find in Florida for photography. Most mushrooms wither quickly when the hot Florida sun comes out!
A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground, on soil, or on its food source. 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 that have a stem, a cap, and gills on the underside of the cap. "Mushroom" also describes a variety of other gilled fungi, with or without stems, therefore the term is used to describe the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface.
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March 18th, 2020
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