Fungi Structure
The root-like typically underground structure of fungi
What is Mycelium?
The guy who discovered Penicillin
Alexander Fleming
The Domain containing Fungi
What is Eukaryota?
This genus contains the common button mushroom as well as many poisonous yellow-staining species
What is Agaricus?
The notch-like structures that release spores in many mushroom species
What are gills?
A very popular modern mycologist who was featured prominently in Fantastic Fungi
Who is Paul Stamets?
One of the two major subdivisions of Fungi in the subkingdom Dikarya which contains all gilled and pored mushrooms
What is Basiomycota?
This genus contains choice edibles, deadly mushrooms such as death caps, as well as the hallucinogenic red toadstool mushroom.
What is Amanita?
The tube-like structures that release spores in many mushroom species
What are pores?
An expert on the genus Candida, a yeast-like fungus that causes disease in humans.
Who is Rhoda Williams Benham
One of the two major subdivisions of Fungi in the subkingdom Dikarya which contains morels and truffles
What is ascomycota?
These mushrooms are known as the "brittle-gills" because of their fragile gills. They also have stems that snap like chalk and usually taste bitter/acrid if poisonous.
What is Russula?
The scientific name for the mushroom cap
What is the pileus?
She conducted experiments on soy fermentation and wrote the first authoritative treatment of Asian fermented foods.
Margaret Brooks Church
The order of fungi which contains the "true mushrooms"
What is Agaricomycetes?
This genus of pored mushrooms contains many choice edibles including the Porcini.
What is Boletus?
The scientific name for the mushroom stem
What is a stipe?
He coined the term symbiosis, meaning 'the living together of unlike organisms" in 1879, observing how lichens are formed.
Anton de Bary
The Clade containing both Animals and Fungi (but not plants)
What are the Opisthokonts?
A genus of mushrooms named for their web-like partial veils (AKA the webcaps)
What is Cortinarius?