By Jack Dash In a previous blog post we discussed some of the mushrooms commonly encountered in the Sonoran Desert. Mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of fungi (think of an apple on an apple tree) and are often visible above ground. But not all fungi produce visible mushrooms like macrofungi do. In this post we’ll…
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Mushrooms of the Tucson Basin
By Jack Dash The Sonoran Desert is known for its strange and wonderful organisms like giant saguaro cacti, resilient desert tortoises, scavenging vultures, venomous Gila monsters and rattlesnakes, and so many more. But did you know the desert is also home to a variety of fungi? In fact, you’ll find fungi everywhere, from deserts to…
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