In this mutualism, the fungus offers protection, water and nutrients. The partner produces energy through photosynthesis. Cyanobacteria in lichens may also contribute significant amounts of nitrogen ...

So, let's be careful!" [We see Chasalow on screen finishing his statement, "...let's be careful!"] Chasalow is picking puffball mushrooms from the ground and inspecting them in his hands. Chasalow: "I ...

Bright red toadstools, funky jelly fungus, and rounded puffball mushrooms in lawn grass may look alarming. However, lawn mushrooms can be a sign that you have healthy soil.

Other examples are given, such as spores from puffball fungi dispersing in the wind. Earthstar fungi open on the woodland floor in the autumn when drops of rain cause them to explosively erupt spores.

Many toxic mushrooms resemble edible varieties, according to the website for the Beaty Biodiversity Museum at the University of British Columbia. In the case of a puffball mushroom, which Minnitt ...

the mushroom is a variation of giant puffballs native to Japan. Both the Japanese and scientific names of the species were given by the late Seiichi Kawamura, a professor who specialized in fungi ...