The word 'fungus' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word 'fungus' to refer to a type of organism that can be either single-celled or multi-celled and typically grows in damp areas. For example, "I found a strange fungus growing on my kitchen counter."
Maurizio points out strange lichens, trees and plants: Indian bread, an edible (but tasteless) fungus; winter's bark, a source of vitamin C; and at one point explains at length how an entire ecosystem has developed on a single fallen log.
Does he not know that froggies, pegging-out world-wide from fungus epidemics, are the pit canaries of the planet?
Chopped rockfish in banana leaf with wakami and black fungus, and Aldona pork with pumpkin wasabi mash and spinach were, for me, standout dishes.
Lake Oku's clawed frogs have tested positive for chytrid (short for chytridiomycosis), a virulent disease caused by the fungus, Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis.
Last week, environment secretary Owen Paterson quietly published a written ministerial statement on ash dieback, setting out his department's plans for the months ahead to try to control the Chalara fraxinea fungus – as well as releasing the interim report by the independent Task Force on Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity.
But the principal culprit is Cryphonectria parasitica, the fungus that causes chestnut blight.
Tibetans in rural areas where this fungus grows have seen their incomes rocket (and fights have broken out among them over the division of fungus-producing land).
But he adds that such large losses to a population are not unusual in epidemics.One explanation offered by both Dr Ratnieks and Mr Traynor is of a once-rare disease, possibly caused by the Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), sweeping through colonies that have already been weakened by parasites such as Nosema ceranae, a parasitic fungus from Asia.
As a control, they repeated the process without the faeces.The fungus germinated on all the control slides.
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To check, though, Dr Arnold turned to his fungus.
