The Shroomery Mycology Glossary
This glossary is to serve as a reference for both beginners and the advanced. Please e-mail us if you have any definitions that you feel should be added here.
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margin | The edge or rim of a mushroom cap. |
marginate | when there is a small circular ridge around the bulb at the base of the stem where the universal veil was attached |
milk | fluid contained inside a mushroom which often becomes sticky when released. |
mucilaginous | sticky, covered in slime |
mycelium | the whole body of a fungus. colony of hyphae arising from one inoculation |
mycorrhiza | a structure formed between a fungus and individual root tips that enables exchange nutrients OR a mutualistic symbiosis between roots and a fungus |