DEFINITION OF TERMS

1.) ballistospore - are actively discharged from the body of a fungal fruit (such as
a mushroom)
2.) decomposition - refers to the reduction of the body of a formerly living
organism into simpler forms of matter.
3.) edible mushroom - are used extensively in cooking, in many cuisines
4.) hasten - to move or act quickly
5.) leguminous plants - a large and economically important family of flowering
plants.
6.) madre de cacao - smooth, deciduous tree, 3 to 10 meters high, leaves are
opposite, oblong-ovate, 4-6 cm long with a pointed tip and rounded base,
flowers are pink, 2 cm long, with a truncate calyx and the pods are narrow,
oblong to oblanceolate, 10 t 14 cm longs, 2 cm wide, containing 6 to 8 seeds.
The tree is common in the southern Tagalog areas,
shedding leaves around December and flowering February
and March.
7.) Mimosa pudica or makahiya plant - is a creeping annual or perennial herb
often grown for its curiosity value: the compound leaves fold inward and
droop when touched, re-opening within minutes.
8.) mushroom - is the fleshy, spore-bearing fruiting body of fungus typically
produced above ground on soil or on their food source.
9.) nitrogen - is a colorless, odorless, tasteless and mostly inert diatomic gas at
standard conditions, constituting 78.1% by volume of Earth's atmosphere. It is
a constituent element of all living tissues and amino acids. Many industrially
important compounds, such as ammonia, nitric acid, and cyanides, contain
nitrogen.
10.) organic waste - is a type of waste, typically originating from plant or animal
sources, which may be broken down by other living organisms.
11.) substrate - is the surface a plant or animal lives upon. It can include biotic
or abiotic materials.
12.) Volvariella volvacea or straw mushroom or paddy straw mushroom - is
a species of edible mushroom cultivated throughout East and Southeast Asia
and used extensively in Asian cuisines.