Mushroom
A mushroom is the fruiting body of a kind of fungus. Unlike plants, mushrooms do not use sunlight to make energy for themselves. A toadstool is another name for a mushroom. Some mushrooms can be eaten, and are used for cooking in many countries: China, Korea and many European countries. People who look for mushrooms to eat are called mycophagists, meaning "mushroom eater".[1] The act of looking for mushrooms is simply called "mushrooming".
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Kinds of mushrooms[change | change source]
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The fly agaric mushroom is poisonous
- Agarics (includes very poisonous, and hallucinogenic kinds)
- Boletus (edible)
- Bracket fungi
- Chanterelles (edible)
- Coral fungi (edible)
- Cup fungi (usually edible)
- Jelly fungi (usually edible, but tastes bad)
- Polypores (similar to boletes)
- Psychedelic (also known as shrooms)
- Puffballs (usually edible)
- Stinkhorns (edible, but smells bad)
- Tooth fungi
Structure of mushrooms[change | change source]
Most mushrooms have a stem and a cap. The bottom of the cap sometimes has gills to hold spores, and sometimes holds the spores themselves.
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Texas mushrooms: a field guide". books.google.com. http://books.google.com/books?id=HRtfvVigMmsC&lpg=PA37&dq=mycophagist&pg=PA37&hl=ko#v=onepage&q=mycophagist&f=false. Retrieved 23 December 2010.
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Identification[change | change source]
- Mushroom Expert
- MykoWeb
- An Aid to Mushroom Identification, Simon's Rock College
- Online Edible Wild Mushroom Field Guide
- Mushroom Observer (mushroomobserver.org), a collaborative mushroom recording and identification project
- list of field guides to mushrooms, from the International Field Guides database
