Question

You might have seen packets of mushrooms sold in the vegetable market. You may have also seen fluffy umbrella-like patches growing in moist soils or on rotting wood during the rainy season (Fig. 1.7). Let us find out what type of nutrients they need to survive and from where they get them.​

Answer 1

They r saptrotrophs, they release digestive enzymes on the rotting wood or the surface it is growing on and then they absorb the digested food. They get their food from the surface it is growing from.