Introduction to Mushrooms Revised April 2000
by By Michael W. Beug Email: beugm@evergreen.edu
The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA
Slide 9.
Fungi play many roles in the environment, largely as decomposers, like this Rhytisma punctatum, an ascomycete growing on this maple leaf. Without the decomposers our forests would soon be piled deep with debris and the cycle of life to death and back to life would be broken.
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