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This familiar pizza topping is cultivated worldwide and is the most commonly eaten mushroom on Earth.
- Button mushroom
- Portobello
- Shiitake
- Oyster mushroom
This fuzzy growth appears on old bread and is actually a type of fungus.
- Yeast
- Mold
- Lichen
- Algae
This single-celled fungus is essential for making bread rise and brewing beer.
- Mold
- Mildew
- Mushroom
- Yeast
These microscopic reproductive units allow fungi to spread to new locations, similar to plant seeds.
- Pollen
- Seeds
- Spores
- Eggs
This dangerous category of mushrooms can cause severe illness or death if eaten.
- Medicinal mushrooms
- Poisonous mushrooms
- Decomposer mushrooms
- Parasitic mushrooms
This luxury ingredient, hunted with pigs or dogs, grows underground near tree roots.
- Morel
- Chanterelle
- Porcini
- Truffle
This dome-shaped mushroom with white spots is iconic in fairy tales and video games, though toxic in real life.
- Fly agaric
- Death cap
- Morel
- Chanterelle
This network of thread-like fungal filaments grows beneath the soil, forming the main body of a fungus.
- Roots
- Stems
- Spores
- Mycelium
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