The shiny, blue-black layer that is so conspicuous on each fruit body in the photograph is comprised of thousands of balloon-like cells, each pointing up and each containing eight spores.
The mutant did not exhibit any visible sign of fruiting although the parental strain formed fertile fruit bodies constitutively.
A morel is noticeably different from a normal mushroom; instead of a cap, it has an upright fruit body, distinctively pitted and resembling a honeycomb or sponge.
The MD-fraction is extracted and fractionated from the mycelia and fruit bodies of Grifola frondosa or G. albicans, G. umbellata, or G. gigantea.
Its single-stalked fruit body is much like the surface of a mushroom gill, rich with spores.
Definition of fruit body in US English:
fruit body
noun
another term for fruiting body
Example sentencesExamples
The MD-fraction is extracted and fractionated from the mycelia and fruit bodies of Grifola frondosa or G. albicans, G. umbellata, or G. gigantea.
Its single-stalked fruit body is much like the surface of a mushroom gill, rich with spores.
The shiny, blue-black layer that is so conspicuous on each fruit body in the photograph is comprised of thousands of balloon-like cells, each pointing up and each containing eight spores.
A morel is noticeably different from a normal mushroom; instead of a cap, it has an upright fruit body, distinctively pitted and resembling a honeycomb or sponge.
The mutant did not exhibit any visible sign of fruiting although the parental strain formed fertile fruit bodies constitutively.