Mulch Mushroom #4 is a painting by J McCombie which was uploaded on July 2nd, 2015.
Mulch Mushroom #4
We have had such a wet season, this beautiful, dainty mushroom grew out of the mulch we haver covering the gardens. It is very fragile making the... more
by J McCombie
Title
Mulch Mushroom #4
Artist
J McCombie
Medium
Painting - Photographic
Description
We have had such a wet season, this beautiful, dainty mushroom grew out of the mulch we haver covering the gardens. It is very fragile making the whitish-grey portions of the mushroom look like a textured rice paper that is somewhat translucent. The yellow-orange double stripes spoke outward from the centre of the cap and show up like ribbons that highlight the middle of the pleats on the cap. And it looks like each panel was painstakingly sewn from the centre of the cap to the pointed ends like you would see in an open man-made parachute or umbrella
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 (Basidiomycota, Agaricomycetes) that have a stem (stipe), a cap (pileus), and gills (lamellae, sing. lamella) on the underside of the cap. These gills produce microscopic spores that help the fungus spread across the ground or its occupant surface.
"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 morphology usually have more specific names, such as "bolete", "puffball", "stinkhorn", and "morel", and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called "agarics" in reference to their similarity to Agaricus or their place Agaricales. By extension, the term "mushroom" can also designate the entire fungus when in culture; the thallus (called a mycelium) of species forming the fruiting bodies called mushrooms; or the species itself.
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