31. Some form annual fruiting bodies while others are perennial and grow larger year after year. 32. Asci are embedded in an ascocarp, or fruiting body . 33. Moisture promotes mushrooms, the fruiting bodies of various fungi. 34. The fungus produces fruiting bodies in the summer months which are edible and popularly collected. 35. Each fruiting body has the potential to be fertilized by more than one male gamete. 36. The fruiting bodies are initially spherical and expand to become cuplike at the fungus matures. 37. Both the sclerotium and the fruiting bodies are edible. 38. New fruiting bodies are formed in the spring and are flat and gray with white edges. 39. These are the fruiting bodies of fungi that invade an open wound and decay the wood. 40. The final stage is a fruiting body which pumps new spores out into the surrounding air.
