DID YOU KNOW …

• Three thousand years ago, mushrooms were a delicacy of the Pharaohs in Egypt, who considered them too delicate for common people to eat.
• Mushrooms were first cultivated by the Greeks and Romans. (In Rome, they were called the food of the Gods.)
• Cultivated in France around 1700, mushrooms were first introduced to the Americas as a cultivated food about 1890.
• There are around 38,000 varieties of mushrooms (from delicious and very edible to deadly!).

• A Mycologist is a mushroom expert – a botanist that specializes in the study of fungi.
• Mushroom hunting can be a dangerous pastime, as many (or most) mushrooms are poisonous. In Southern France, pharmacies test wild mushrooms to make sure they´re poison-free!
• Mushrooms have no chlorophyll so they get all their nutrients from the organic matter where they grow.
• In Irish folklore, Leprechauns used mushrooms as umbrellas.
• Wild mushrooms have predictable growth patterns, but they never grow in the same place two years in a row!
• Mushrooms have three roles in nature (besides being sautéed in olive oil and consumed by us!)

1. They are parasites that consume resources from other living things.
2. They are decayers and decompose non-living material.
3. They are nurturers, so they attach to the root hairs of plants and provide nutrients as well.

 

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