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Botany Photo of the Day: Marasmius oreades
A GoogleEarth photograph showing fairy rings in Kensington Gardens in central London, formed by fungi of this species.
http://www.ubcbotanicalgarden.org/potd/2007/03/marasmius_oreades_1.php
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Marasmius oreades
Tom Volk provides photographs and information on this species, which often grows in fairy rings.
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/mar2003.html
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Marasmius oreades
Photograph and description of this species including its edibility, and details of other fungi with which it might be confused.
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/species/Marasmius_oreades.html
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Marasmius androsaceus
Photograph and notes on this dainty fungus, seen here growing on fallen pine needles.
http://www.mycena.sfsu.edu/pages/hawaiian/Pine_Forests/M_androsaceus.html
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Marasmius radiatus
Photograph and notes on this tiny species.
http://www.mycena.sfsu.edu/pages/hawaiian/Alien_Wet_Forests/Ma_radiatus.html
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Shiitake
Also known as the Chinese Black Mushroom, Lentinula elodes has long been used in China and Japan for cooking and is now being studied for its medicinal benefits.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiitake
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Bioluminescence
Extract from the book "In the Company of Mushrooms" by Moselio Schaechter discussing the bioluminescence produced by Armillaria mellea
http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/cgi-bin/ifetch?netnews+382096931382702+F
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Xerula furfuracea
Photograph and information on this edible species.
http://www.uoguelph.ca/~gbarron/MISC2006/june2006.htm
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California Fungi: Marasmius
The principal characteristics of the genus Marasmius and links to other sites. Also a list of those species found in California with photographs of about 6 of them.
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/genera/Marasmius.html
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California Fungi: Strobilurus
A list of those species in this genus to be found growing in California with photographs of 3 of them.
http://www.mykoweb.com/CAF/genera/Strobilurus.html
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