Most of the fungus is underground and in decaying wood or dying tree roots in the form of white mycelia combined with black shoelace-like that bridge colonized separated woody substrates | |
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The primordia form at ground level in lawns in humid spaces under the and after heavy rainfall or in conditions balloon to full size in a few hours, release spores, and then collapse | mushrooms were also sometimes regarded as magic or satanic, their fruiting bodies appearing quickly overnight from underground |
Similarly, there are even more ephemeral mushrooms, like formerly plicatlis , that literally appear overnight and may disappear by late afternoon on a hot day after rainfall.
2The as well as the common initially form a minute , referred to as the pin stage because of their small size | Once such stages are formed, the mushroom can rapidly pull in water from its and expand, mainly by inflating preformed that took several days to form in the |
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They "mushroom" to full size | This phenomenon is the source of several common expressions in the including "to mushroom" or "mushrooming" expanding rapidly in size or scope and "to pop up like a mushroom" to appear unexpectedly and quickly |
Though mushroom fruiting bodies are short-lived, the underlying can itself be long-lived and massive.
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