{"id":8423,"date":"2016-09-12T03:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-09-12T02:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8423"},"modified":"2016-09-03T08:45:49","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T07:45:49","slug":"fine-and-fantastic-fruiting-fungus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/fine-and-fantastic-fruiting-fungus\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Fruiting Fungus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4098\/4818357810_33263ae67f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The mushroom we see is the fruiting part of a fungus that distributes the spores of the fungus for its own reproduction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fungus Facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Most fungi are small microorganisms that live in soil, on dead matter, or as a symbiont of plants or animals.<\/li>\n<li>Fungi perform an essential role in the decomposition of organic matter and have fundamental roles in recycling nutrients.<\/li>\n<li>The study of fungi is known as mycology, which is often regarded as a branch of botany<\/li>\n<li>Yeasts and moulds are forms of fungi but slimes are not.<\/li>\n<li>The Kingdom Fungi has been estimated to include approximately 1.5 million species, most of which have not been classified.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2752\/4225064433_6173c459ee.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->This bracket fungus was 7 foot high up a mature tree that did not seem to be suffering any ill effects.<\/p>\n<p>The black fungus above was on the stump of a dead Elm and the ill effects were long past. The recycling phase was in full flow.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4100\/4818357290_6db739c3b5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Edible Fungus<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Mushrooms provide food for a variety of insects and wild life and can be useful in a garden.<\/li>\n<li>Commercially grown mushrooms and truffles have been grown for centuries. This includes varieties like milk mushrooms, morels, chanterelles, black trumpets, and porcini mushrooms.<\/li>\n<li>Asian varieties have recently increased in popularity including Straw mushrooms Volvariella volvacea, Oyster mushrooms Pleurotus ostreatus, Shiitakes Lentinula edodes and Enokitake.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The mushroom we see is the fruiting part of a fungus that distributes the spores of the fungus for its own reproduction. Fungus Facts Most fungi are small microorganisms that live in soil, on dead matter, or as a symbiont of plants or animals. Fungi perform an essential role in the decomposition of organic matter and have fundamental roles in recycling nutrients. The study of fungi is known as mycology, which is often regarded as a branch of botany Yeasts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/fine-and-fantastic-fruiting-fungus\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-gardening","category-flowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}