Mold is a fungus, like mushrooms. And it's made up of thousands of threadlike filaments called hyphae. It uses those filaments like roots: to feed. Hyphae extend into your stale bread or rotten ...

View Full Profile. Learn about our Editorial Policies. Mycelium is the fabric of fungal populations: fungi produce thread-like roots called hyphae, which branch and fuse with one another to form a ...

Those mutant spores that were viable germinated into hyphae after ingestion by macrophages, unlike wild-type spores, which germinate into yeast forms after phagocytosis.

The "spaghetti" represent short fungal hyphae which might more aptly be described as "macaroni" and the "meatballs" represent fungal spores. If the diagnosis is still in doubt, skin scrapings may ...