Category: C

A type of partial veil. A hairy, silky mass of spiderweb-like filaments attached from the cap margin to the stem.  

The common name for a large, woody, hoof-shaped polypore growing on trees.  

Cone-bearing tree with needles or scales, such as hemlock, spruce, pine, fir, or arborvitae. An evergreen, needled, cone-bearing tree or shrub. A member of a primitive order of flowering plants (the Gymnospermae), characterized by their cones and usually needle-like leaves. They are all shrubs or trees, usually evergreen, and the hardiest trees in cold climates;…

Spaced intermediately between subdistant and crowded.  

A tight roll of volva tissue that goes around the base of the stem.  

Thick-walled asexual spores of the mold phase of some ascomycetes, especially those that parasitize other fungi. In botany, a thick-walled asexual thallospore formed by the enlargement of a vegetative cell that assumes an oval shape.  

The netlike threads found inside many puffballs that aid in spore dispersal.  

Plants with several, or numerous, separate stems arising from a common system of roots, underground stems (rhizomes), above-ground runners, bulb off-shoots, or other means of asexual (vegetative) reproduction.  

An ulcerous sore on the lips, cheek or tongue. A lesion, chiefly of the mouth and lips, due to a virus or a vitamin deficiency. This passage describes a type of injury to a plant, which is caused by the breakdown of tissues surrounding the plant’s xylem cylinder. This breakdown can occur in the main…

A disease with gradual onset, long-term symptoms and gradual changes. A pathological condition that persists over a long period of time and progressively worsens unless measures are taken to halt its progress. Diseases which have one or more of the following characteristics: are permanent; leave residual disability; are caused by nonreversible pathological alteration; require special…