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 * ... that though fruiting as a typical "little brown mushroom", Inocybe lacera is easily identifiable microscopically due to its extremely long, distinctive spores?
 * ... that the hexagonal-pored polypore mushroom produces the antifungal polypeptide alveolarin?
 * ... that several species in the mushroom order Pezizales, such as Geopyxis carbonaria, Peziza violacea, Peziza praetervisa, and Rhizina undulata, grow on burned-over ground?
 * ... that the mushroom Lactarius quietus is found exclusively under oak trees in Europe?
 * ... that a study of lichen growth in the Canadian Rockies showed that Xanthoria elegans expands at a rate of 0.5 mm per year for the first century before slowing down?