What is "fruiting"

Usage examples of "fruiting".

Carefully he tweezed a fragment of fruiting cup from its stem and deposited it in a waiting plastic vial.

It was as close to immortality as Vod could imagine, these fruiting bodies sprouting from the vast plait of mycelium crisscrossing DownWorld.

Caesar had imagined that no trees grew, but saw in surprise that there were whole groves of trees, sometimes small foreststhe fruiting persea, a local sycamore, black-thorn, oak, figsand that palms of all kinds grew besides the famous date.

A splendid stalk is raised, with a fruiting body on top, and out of this comes the next generation of amebocytes, ready to swim across the same moist ground, solitary and ambitious.

This is a remedy derived from the fruiting bodies of the horsehoof fungus, known to the ancient Greeks and the Australian Aborigines for its remarkable healing properties.

Fungi, for their fruiting bodies, or Protista, for their flagellate forms.

Big enough so that these basidiocarps," and he indicated the tripartite fruiting bodies nearby, "and the ones we saw at the place where we were attacked by the mokusinga could all be reproductive bodies sprouting from the same individual source.

Big enough so that these basidiocarps,” and he indicated the tripartite fruiting bodies nearby, “and the ones we saw at the place where we were attacked by the mokusinga could all be reproductive bodies sprouting from the same individual source.

The children wandered over the island and looked for bilberries, which were fruiting there in great numbers.

The plant life of the Viisiiviisii had evolved hundreds of ways of defending itself, from protective mimicry, to concentrating toxins in leaves and fruiting bodies, to throwing caustic spines and other more active means of repulsing would-be browsers.

Then she realized that the fruiting trees were placed at regular intervals, and each row was comprised of different types.

The Bearded Darnel, a common grass weed in English cornfields, is easily distinguished by its long glumes or awns and turgid, fruiting pales, containing the large grains, from the common Ray or Rye-grass (Lolium perenne), which is one of the best of the cultivated grasses, peculiarly adapted for both hay and pasture, especially in wet or uncertain climates.

Plants in handmade boxes stood as far as they could see, leafing, blooming, fruiting, blanketing trellises, vaulting the overhead, rose, lily, violet, bamboo, pumpkin, dwarf juniper, trumpet vine, grapevine, things that Earth never knew, a riot of life.

It took a long time for people to understand that the fruiting bodies and mycelium they were seeing were all part of a single gigantic life-form.

Fungi proliferated across the floor, spreading filaments through the leaf litter and erecting fruiting bodies in the shape of umbrellas and globes, platforms and spikes hung about by lace skirts.