When you encounter a mushroom on the forest floor it’s not just a mushroom. Mushrooms are merely the fruit of a predominantly underground organism. The majority of the organism is underground in the form of mycelium – the vegetative part of a fungus that consists of a mass of branching single-cell strands called hyphae. The mushroom itself is the fruiting body of that fungus, which allows it to disperse spores and create more mushrooms.
~ BBC Earth: The Surprising World of Mushrooms

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