It’s being claimed in the Huffington Post that on 29th July in Puxiong, China that the worlds largest wild mushroom was found. The sample weighed in at thirty three pounds and was roughly forty inches round. Amusingly the person who found it is trying to establish whether it’s a brand Visit details (www.timesofisrael.com) new world record. As anyone who knows anything about wild mushrooms (fungi) will realize that this “wild mushroom” is really a tiddler!
Wild mushrooms are made up from two components, the mycelium (which is the key part) and also the fruiting body (which is the “mushroom” as we recognize it).
We eat the fruiting body and it is that part that virtually all men and women consider being the mushroom when in fact, it is the very long underground thread (mycelium) that is actually the main factor. The fruiting body only accounts for a small percentage of the entire animal.
You will find however some much larger wild mushrooms. In 2000 a really huge one was found, when measured it was believed that the mycelium given 3.5 miles and covered nearly 1700 football grounds.
The fruiting bodies seen sprouting in fields will usually have mycelium extending a lot of miles into neighboring woods, this’s where they gain the majority of their meals as they’ve a “symbiotic” connection with old and dying trees.
Some fungi are going to kill the host tree of theirs, including the Polypore (Chicken of the Woods), which happens to be a bracket fungus where as some actually advantage trees by offering them nutrients including the Cep and Chanterelle.
There are many styles of wild mushroom and you need to never ever eat any unless correctly identified by an expert. Numerous types of fungi can be identified by their smell, colour and shape but the difference between edible and poisonous can be extremely small and perhaps experts can fail to get it correctly.
We have witnessed a few situations in the last two years of people being killed by eating what are like regular area mushrooms only to find they’ve eaten the most deadly sort.