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Sugar mushrooms

fungi growing on sugar (GB)
See under Sacchareomyces.

Name (German: Zuckerhefen, Zuckerpilze) for a yeast genus in the department of tubular fungi. The name is derived from the ability to utilize different carbohydrates (saccharum = sugar). The yeasts, which grow very rapidly under ideal conditions, can reach maturity within only three days. The most important species for the fermentation of beer...

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