Bird's nest fungus
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Bird's nest fungi are fungi with fruiting bodies that look like egg-filled birds' nests and make up the order the Nidulariales. The "eggs" are spore cases called peridioles. Peridioles contain glebal tissue with basidia and are dispersed by rain.
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