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Fungi can be found everywhere. Mushrooms,
the yeast to make bread and the mold to make blue cheese are types of
fungi. If you find mold on the bread in your kitchen or mildew on your
shower curtain you are also seeing types of fungi.
Like plants, fungi cannot move.
Unlike plants, fungi don't contain chlorophyll and therefore cannot make
their own food. Most fungi feed on dead or decaying tissues. This is why
you usually see mushrooms on the sides of dead trees.
Most species of fungi are many-celled.
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| Toadstools, the often inedible or even poisonous mushroomlike
fungi are not called "toadstools" because toads actually use them
as stools. The word derives from the German words tod and stuhl,
meaning "death stool," in reference to the poisonous nature of
many of these fungi. (Myth Information) |
