#474: Hyphae and other fungal vocabulary

Merlin Sheldrake's book 'An Entangled Life' explores the world of fungi, and provides some very useful additional information on key words linked to this organism.

A hypha (from Ancient Greek ὑφή (huphḗ) 'web'; pl.: hyphae) is a long, branching, filamentous structure of a fungus, oomycete, or actinobacterium.

In most fungi, hyphae are the main mode of vegetative growth, and are collectively called a mycelium.

These run beneath the ground, and fungi are the fruiting bodies.

A reminder that developing new vocabulary will be part of any new GCSE... what vocabulary makes the list remains to be seen.

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