mycelium
Network of fungal hyphae growing through or over a surface or material.
fungal mycelium (mycel)
All languages
- English
- mycelium
- Norwegian
- mycel
- Japanese
- 菌糸体 — きんしたい — kinshitai
- Korean
- 균사체 — gyunsache
- Spanish
- micelio
- French
- mycélium
- German
- Myzel
Illustrations are AI-generated and translations are undergoing language review.
Reference sources
- Kew Gardens — mycelium is the hidden network of thin fungal strands called hyphae that explores soil or other substrate
- Store norske leksikon — most fungi develop a richly branched mycelium of threadlike hyphae living on and in organic material
- Australian National Botanic Gardens — an individual fungal thread is a hypha and the network of hyphae is a mycelium