Penicillium chrysogenum     

Creator of Penicillin "The Wonder Drug"                     *Contact		                          Tom Volk - Mycology - University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
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Multiple Organisms 
Shiitake Mushroom
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Answers:

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Clip Art- Mushroom four

1. Yes, this is a mushroom! This happens to be a fruiting body of a basidiomycota fungus. 

 

Tom Volk - Universtiy of Wisconsin, La Crosse

2. No, this is not a mushroom! This is the asexual structure of Penicillium sp. which resembles a paint brush. 

 

Clip Art - Mushroom six

3. The answer to this tricky bugger is both yes and no!  The mushrooms appear at the bottom left of the picture.

 

Clip Art - Mushroom three

4. The object in front is a mushroom; however, if you look carefully to the gnome's periphery, you will see smaller objects which are in fact mushrooms!

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