What Are Mushrooms

What are Mushrooms?

The mushrooms we see in the woods are fungal fruiting bodies made up of massed strands of hyphae. Each mushroom produces millions of tiny spores, the "seeds" of the fungus. A giant puffball can contain 7,000 billion spores and if every one were to grow to maturity the mass of fungal material would be many times the size of the earth. [CH] {AU}