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Basidiomycetes

Fruiting Body

Cap with gills, blunt ridges, pores or teeth, coral-like ................................

Yes

Body shape like a puffball, bird's nest, stinkhorn, cup-shaped, pine-cone-like,
jelly

Yes

with gills

Yes

with teeth

Yes

with ridges

Yes

with pores

Yes

coral-like

Yes

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Agarics
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Hydnums
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Key 3

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Chantarelles
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Key 4

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Are they fleshy, usually found on the ground?

Yes

Are they leathery and found on wood?

Yes

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Boletes
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Polypores
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Corals
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Which body shape does the fungi resemble?
Bird's Nest Yes	Earth Stars Yes	Puffballs Yes	Stinkhorns Yes	Jelly-like Yes
Pine Cone ........... Yes	Morels ............. Yes	False Morels ........... Yes	Cup Fungi ........... Yes	Earth Tongues Yes

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Gastromycetes
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Heterobasidiomycetes
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Ascomycetes
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