fruit body

noun

1. a variant of fruiting body

Example Sentences

“Many companies, especially companies importing Chinese mushroom extracts like Nammex, promote their products as being fruit body extracts when, in fact, the liquid extract is sprayed back on the extracted mushroom pulp and then sold as 100% pure extracts,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

On the packaging, he adds: “Our label design includes images of the recognizable fruit body that the mycelium forms. This is normative across dietary supplements. Most echinacea root products have an image of an echinacea flower or plant on the package although the specific extract is made from the root.”

From Los Angeles Times

The form of the fruit body, the difference and the nature of special outgrowths upon it—the appendages—are characteristic of the various genera.

From Project Gutenberg

The ascocarps can be distinguished into two portions, a mass of sterile or vegetative hyphae forming the main mass of the fruit body, and surrounding the fertile ascogenous hyphae which bear at their ends the asci.

From Project Gutenberg

In the Helvellaceae there is no apothecium but a large irregular fruit body which at maturity bears the asci on its surface.

From Project Gutenberg