Posts Tagged ‘basidiocarps’

Seeking the Perfect Basidiocarp

Ohio-based researchers Nicholas P. Money and Mark Fischer have studied the shape of mushroom caps in an effort to understand how close to a perfect shape actual mushrooms are able to achieve. The role of a mushroom cap is to support a spore-bearing hymenium.
In the case of your regular garden variety mushroom the hymenium exists [...]

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