- Mycelium (plural mycelia) is the vegetative part of a fungus, consisting of a mass of branching, thread-like hyphae.
- The mass of hyphae is sometimes called shiro, especially within the fairy ring fungi.
- Fungal colonies composed of mycelia are found in soil and on or within many other substrates.
- A typical single spore germinates into a homokaryotic mycelium, which cannot reproduce sexually; when two compatible homokaryotic mycelia join and form a dikaryotic mycelium, that mycelium may form fruiting bodies such as mushrooms.
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