This brings fresh new air to be converted to clouds. However, in order to rain, the clouds need something to condense on, but there might be very few nuclei in the air above pristine forests. Fortunately, mushroom spores, along with other tiny particles like pollen, are abundant in the atmosphere.
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Most edible fungi belong to the Phylum Basidiomycota; however, some basidiomycetes produce deadly toxins. For example, Cryptococcus neoformans causes severe respiratory illness. The lifecycle of basidiomycetes includes sexual and asexual reproduction Figure 2. Most fungi are haploid through most of their life cycles, but the basidiomycetes produce both haploid and dikaryotic mycelia, with the dikaryotic phase being dominant.
Note: The dikaryotic phase is technically not diploid, since the nuclei remain unfused until shortly before spore production. In the basidiomycetes, sexual spores are more common than asexual spores. The sexual spores form in the club-shaped basidium and are called basidiospores.
In the basidium, nuclei of two different mating strains fuse karyogamy , giving rise to a diploid zygote that then undergoes meiosis. The haploid nuclei migrate into four different chambers appended to the basidium, and then become basidiospores.
Each basidiospore germinates and generates monokaryotic haploid hyphae. The mycelium that results is called a primary mycelium. Mycelia of different mating strains can combine and produce a secondary mycelium that contains haploid nuclei of two different mating strains. This is the dominant dikaryotic stage of the basidiomycete life cycle. All parts of the mushroom are poisonous; cooking or peeling does not make the mushroom safe to eat.
The poisonous compounds are extremely stable. You cannot remove them by soaking, cooking or drying. The caps of the mushrooms are mm wide, usually pale green to yellow in colour, with distinctive white gills and white stem. It has a membranous skirt on the upper part of the stem and a cup-like structure around the base of the stem called a volva.
Sometimes the bulbous base and the volva are partially buried in the soil or hidden by grass and leaf litter. Mr Lepp, who is an honorary scientific associate at the Australian National Botanic Gardens, said the death cap was easily identifiable to those experienced in identifying mushrooms. But he said it was better to err on the side of caution and avoid picking wild mushrooms during autumn.
He said there were far more "unknowns than knowns" when it comes to native Australian mushrooms. Australia has quite a number of native amanita species which grow in symbiotic association with gum trees of which nothing is known about the toxicity. Death caps are common in many Canberra suburbs and can be found growing near established oak trees during warm, wet autumn weather. It is also well-established in several Melbourne suburbs and in some Victorian country towns near Melbourne.
It is not native to Australia and was accidentally introduced from the northern hemisphere. The straw mushroom Volvariella volvacea is grown and eaten throughout Asia but it does not grow naturally in Australia. However the species Volvariella speciosa is found naturally in many parts of Australia and looks very similar to the straw mushroom. Each species of Volvariella has a volva at the base of the stem and the gills do not reach the stem - just like the death cap. But with Volvariella there is no ring on the stem and the gills are pale pinkish-brown, rather than white.
However you could easily overlook some of these differences in a hasty examination and much depends on the weather.
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