Polypore fungi. Unidentified polypore fungi growing in a rainforest. The mushroom-like basidiocarps (or fruiting bodies) seen here hold the reproducti

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Polypore fungi. Unidentified polypore fungi growing in a rainforest. The mushroom-like basidiocarps (or fruiting bodies) seen here hold the reproductive spores as they develop. The spores are released from the many pores on the underside of the basidiocarp. Photographed in Panacocha, Ecuador.

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