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Each fungus will have vast numbers of these hyphae, all intertwining to make up a tangled web called the mycelium. The mycelium is generally too fine to be seen by the naked eye, except where the hyphae are very closely packed together. The picture on the left was taken through a microscope.
Hyphae. This makes up the structure of fungi, and are composed of tiny threads of cytoplasm surrounded by a plasma membrane and covered by a cell wall Unlike plants who build their cell walls out of cellulose, fungi build their cell walls out of chitin.