bracket fungus in English
noun
1
a fungus that grows on living trees or dead wood, forming one or more shelflike projections that are the spore-producing bodies. Hyphae spread through the wood absorbing nutrients and can cause the death of the tree.
It is a sessile wood inhabiting fungus and is commonly known as ‘ bracket fungus ’.
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1. As nouns the difference between mushroom and Conk is that mushroom is any of the fleshy fruiting bodies]] of [[fungusfungi typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources (such as decaying wood) while Conk is (mycology) the shelf- or bracket-shaped fruiting body of a bracket fungus'' (aka ''shelf fungus''), ''ie , a mushroom growing off a tree trunk.