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Dimorphic fungi can change from the unicellular to multicellular state depending on environmental conditions.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

I ought to have written before to thank you for the copies of your papers on Primula and on "Cross-unions of Dimorphic Plants, etc."

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

The papers which on this subject preceded and contributed to 'Forms of Flowers' were the following:— "On the two Forms or Dimorphic Condition in the Species of Primula, and on their remarkable Sexual Relations."

From Life and Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Darwin, Francis, Sir

Dimorphic branches in tropical crop plants: cotton, coffee, cacao, the Central American rubber tree, and the banana.

From All About Coffee by Ukers, William H. (William Harrison)

Dear Darwin,—I ought to have written before to thank you for the copies of your paper on "Primula" and on "Cross Unions of Dimorphic Plants, etc."

From Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1 by Marchant, James