It's all Greek

I seem to be falling behind,  the days they do slip by.... 

Anyway here's a little mushroom I found in a pile of wood chippings.  The fluffy stuff at the base of the stalk is a mass of filaments called hyphae (hypha = web in ancient Greek) connected underground to the mycelium (múkēs  = mushroom, also from ancient Greek).
I bet Tivoli will know what mushroom is in modern Greek!


The hyphae are the growing tips of the underground fungus formed by the mycelium and what we see above ground are just the fruiting bodies thrust up to disperse spores.