Artist’s fungus  (Ganoderma applanatum)

Species information

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Glossary

  • Fruit bodies: in fungi, the fruit body is the visible part of the fungus which bears spores (microscopic particles involved in both dispersal and reproduction).
  • Parasitic: an organism that derives its food from, and lives in or on, another living organism at the host’s expense.
  • Photosynthesis: metabolic process characteristic of plants in which carbon dioxide is broken down, using energy from sunlight absorbed by the green pigment chlorophyll. Organic compounds are made and oxygen is given off as a by-product.
  • Spores: microscopic particles involved in both dispersal and reproduction. They comprise a single or group of unspecialised cells and do not contain an embryo, as do seeds.

References

  1. National Biodiversity Network Species Dictionary (September, 2003)
    http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nbn/
  2. Courtecuisse, R. (1999) Collins guide to the mushrooms of Britain and Europe.HarperCollins Publishers, London.
  3. Dickinson, C. and Lucas, J. (1979) The encyclopaedia of mushrooms.ORBIS Publishing, London.
  4. Buczacki, S. (1989) Fungi of Britain and Europe.Collins, London.
  5. Jordan, M. (1995) The encyclopaedia of fungi of Britain and Europe.David and Charles, London.
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