Word: armillaria
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...consequences will be a plague of mushrooms. That is how many fungi reproduce, and this mass of subterranean cytoplasm, known scientifically as Armillaria bulbosa, is one humongous fungus. The mushrooms are aboveground appendages of the real organism, a tangled mass of stringlike tendrils that spread below the surface. Just how far a given fungus can spread has always been open to speculation. Unless scientists happen to dig right where two clearly different fungi meet, there is no easy way to tell where one ends and another begins...
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