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.
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Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Those aren’t mushrooms, they’re conks
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 11 months ago
anon6789@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Thank you for clarifying. That was my takeaway from reading the polypores Wikipedia article.
Conks are all mushrooms, but not all mushrooms are conks.
anon6789@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Neat, I hadn’t heard that term before. I’ll have to read more about them.
On a convenient note, the wiki for polypores had a pic of the orange “mushroom” I had found.
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