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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.
Fungi are either decomposers or parasites, and they have extracellular digestion and absorption of organic nutrients. Another unique characteristic of the fungi is that the body of a fungus, or mycelium, is made up of many branching and unbranching filaments, called hyphae.Also, most fungi produce both sexual and asexual spores, depending on the environmental conditions.ndeed, these and most fungi are multicellular organisms made up of cells have cell walls, a typical plant characteristic. However, on closer inspection, you would notice that the fungi are lacking chlorophyll, leaving them unable to produce their own food (although many plants lack chlorophyll as well).