| 31. | Some form annual fruiting bodies while others are perennial and grow larger year after year.
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| 32. | Asci are embedded in an ascocarp, or fruiting body.
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| 33. | Moisture promotes mushrooms, the fruiting bodies of various fungi.
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| 34. | The fungus produces fruiting bodies in the summer months which are edible and popularly collected.
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| 35. | Each fruiting body has the potential to be fertilized by more than one male gamete.
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| 36. | The fruiting bodies are initially spherical and expand to become cuplike at the fungus matures.
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| 37. | Both the sclerotium and the fruiting bodies are edible.
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| 38. | New fruiting bodies are formed in the spring and are flat and gray with white edges.
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| 39. | These are the fruiting bodies of fungi that invade an open wound and decay the wood.
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| 40. | The final stage is a fruiting body which pumps new spores out into the surrounding air.
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