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{{otheruses}} '''Mushroom(s)''' are the fleshy, [[spore]]-bearing [[fruiting body|fruiting bodies]] of [[fungi]] typically produced above ground on soil or on their food sources. The standard for the name '''mushroom''' is the cultivated white button mushroom, ''[[Agaricus bisporus]]'', hence the word mushroom is most often applied to fungi ([[Basidiomycota]], [[Agaricomycetes]]) that have a stem (called a '''[[Stipe (mycology)|stipe]]'''), a cap (called a '''[[Pileus (mycology)|pileus]]'''), and gills (each called a [[lamella (mycology)|lamella]]/pl. lamellae) on the underside of the cap just as do store-bought white mushrooms. However, mushrooms can also be a wide variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally to describe both fleshy fruitbodies of some [[Ascomycota]] and woody or leathery fruitbodies of some [[Basidiomycota]], depending upon the context of the usage. Usually forms deviating from the standard form have more specific names, such as [[puffball]]s, [[stinkhorn]], [[morel]]s, etc. and gilled mushrooms themselves are often called [[agaric]]s, in reference to their similarity to ''[[Agaricus]]'' or placement in the order [[Agaricales]]. By extension, ''mushroom'' can also designate the entire fungus when in culture or when referring to the whole [[thallus]] (called a [[mycelium]]) of species forming fruitbodies called mushrooms. [[Image:Amanita muscaria (fly agaric).JPG|right|thumb|250px|The mushroom ''[[Amanita muscaria]]'', commonly known as "fly agaric".]]

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