Button Mushroom Scientific name: Agaricus bisporus

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Button MushroomScientific name Agaricus bisporus
Hyphae
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• Classification Club Fungus
• Habitat grasslands, fields, meadows after rain
  from late spring to early autumn
• Symmetry N/A
• Cellular Organization multicellular have cell
  walls- each cell is encased in a carbohydrate
  called chitin, which protects the fungus from
  digesting itself.
• Reproduction Asexually spores produced in a
  club- shaped structure called a
  basidium.Sexually reproductive structure forms
  at point where hyphae join.
• Method of Obtaining Food consumer
  heterotroph-saprophyte-absorbs dead decaying
  tissues of other organisms using hyphae and
  digestive enzymes.
• Special Notes/Adaptations Mycologists have
  raised concerns that this mushroom contains trace
  quantities of a chemical called agartine known to
  have carcinogenic properties. Fungi do not move.