Glossary of Mycology Terms: F

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FAE

[ eff-ay-ee ]

Fresh Air Exchange. A mushroom cultivation term referring to airflow.

Fairy Ring

[ fair-ee ring ]

Mushrooms growing in a ring or arch formation. Marasmius oreades are often associated with fairy rings.

also known as fairy circle, elf circle, elf ring, or pixie ring.

Fibrillose

[ fy-BRIH-lohs ]

A surface covered in thread-like filaments; containing fibrils.

All types of mushroom cap surfaces.

Fibrils

[ FIB-rils ]

small hairs or thread-like filaments.

Fibrous

[ FIB-rus ]

string-like tissue.

Filament

[ FIL-uh-muhnt ]

a threadlike cell.

Often referring to a hypha.

Filamentous

[ fil-uh-MEN-tus ]

containing filaments or hyphae.

Flesh

The inner tissue of a mushroom.

Technical term: trama.

Flexuous

[ FLEK-shoo-us ]

Containing bends or curves.

Floccose

[ FLOK-ohs ]

A surface covered in Wooly or cotton-like hairs; also known as Flocculose.

All types of mushroom cap surfaces.

Free

gills that do not attach to the stipe (stem).

See gill attachments.

Fruiting Body

[ FROOT-ing body ]

a mushroom; The reproductive structure of most fungi.

Fruticose

[ FROO-ti-kohs ]

Shrub-shaped.

Often used to describe lichen.

Fugacious

[ fyoo-GAY-shus ]

Short-lived; easily destroyed.

Fungi / Fungus

[ FUN-jai or FUN-gai ]

an immobile single-cell or multicellular eukaryote with a cell wall comprised of chitin.

Kingdom Fungi.

Furfuraceous

[ fur-fyu-RAY-shus ]

A surface covered in flaky bran-like particles; dandruff-like.

All types of mushroom cap surfaces.

Furrow

[ FUR-oh ]

Exhibiting narrow trenchlike groves.

Fusiform

[ FYOO-si-form ]

spindle-shaped; widest in the middle and tapering at both ends.

also known as Fusoid

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