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Changing color when handled, rubbed, or otherwise injured. An area of bruises.  

Wood rot in which the fungus degrades the cellulose but not the lignin, leaving a brown, often cubical, firm residue; not as common as white rot. Wood decay that is triggered by fungi that destroys cellulose in trees results in the decomposition of wood, leaving behind a residue of brown lignin. This is distinct from…

Describes the distance between the gills’ attachment to the cap and the gills’ lower edge when it is equal to or greater than the thickness of the flesh of the cap.  

Fruit bodies of mushrooms and other fleshy fungi that cluster together, joined at their stem bases like a bouquet of flowers, caespitose.  

A fleshy mushroomlike fruit body with a removable tube layer on the undersurface of the cap; taxonomically placed in their own order Boletales.  

Gills attached straight into the stem, adnate, or slightly curving up the stem, emarginate or even adnexed.  

The variety of life; unfortunately, fungal biodiversity for most of North America, and elsewhere on the planet, is still underexplored and not well understood. The assemblage of living beings encompassed within a delineated ecological framework.  

Club-shaped cell of basidiomycetes on which basidiospores are formed at the end of pegs or sterigmata, after meiosis.