Mushrooms are common

Mushrooms are common in outdoor environments around our home.  As a fungi, molds and mushrooms decompose organic materials.  This cluster of mushrooms was found in the yard.“Mushroom” describes a variety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is used even more generally, to describe both the fleshy fruiting bodies of some Ascomycota and the woody or leathery fruiting bodies of some Basidiomycota, depending upon the context of the word.