Description

Kaapscehoop fungi

Therina Groenewald: Kaapscehoop fungi – professional photographer

Kaapscehoop fungi – A mushroom, or toadstool, is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil or on its foodsource.

The standard for the name “mushroom” is the cultivated white button mushroom.  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.