petrichor

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Most of the fungus is underground and in decaying wood or dying tree roots in the form of white mycelia combined with black shoelace-like rhizomorphs that bridge colonized separated woody substrates. petrichor; a VERY small selection of the total fungi obtained from a 1 in 100 dilution of one gram of soil. yewenyi

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  • Most of the fungus is underground and in decaying wood or dying tree roots in the form of white mycelia combined with black shoelace-like rhizomorphs that bridge colonized separated woody substrates. petrichor; a VERY small selection of the total fungi obtained from a 1 in 100 dilution of one gram of soil. yewenyi —  Color + Design Blog by COLOURlovers / Feed
  • The essays contained within the book examine the pronunciation, usage and history of words like cynosure, desultory, ephemeral, gambol, petrichor, serendipity, and Susquehanna. —  MMD Newswire: Press Release News Wire
 

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