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unusual facts about mushroom


Creative Extension

As part of its Creative Extension series the Krishi Vigyan Kendra has conceived and produced an audio CD containing songs on Mushroom production


Albatrellus confluens

Grifolin is an anticancer isolate of the mushroom Albatrellus confluens.

Amanita nothofagi

The mushroom may be confused with another New Zealand species, A. australis, but can be distinguished by certain characteristics.

Amanullinic acid

It is an amatoxin, all of which are found in several members of the Amanita genus of mushrooms.

Aspidella

:Aspidella is also a synonym for the mushroom genus Amanita.

Ballıca Cave

The Magnificent Gallery on the third floor is formed by the three adjoining halls: Mushroom, Column, and New Halls.

Boletus barrowsii

It was officially described by Harry D. Thiers and Alexander H. Smith in 1976 from a specimen collected near Jacob Lake, Arizona on August 21, 1971 by amateur mycologist Charles "Chuck" Barrows, who had studied the mushroom in New Mexico.

BTTR Ventures

They partnered with Peet's Coffee & Tea(PEET) and other local coffee shops as sources of coffee grounds and Whole Foods Market (WFMI), Andronico's, Mollie Stone's and other regional grocery stores as distributors of the company's mushrooms and mushroom kits for more than their 30 Bay Area stores, and CitySlickers Farms, an Oakland Urban Farming Project, and Oakland Unified School District as receivers of the company's compost donation.

Calocybe carnea

Originally described as Agaricus carneus by the French mycologist Jean Baptiste François Pierre Bulliard in 1792, this small pink mushroom has been through many taxonomical name changes over many years, and as a result has had many binomial names.

Can't Get It Out of My Head

In the '70s, a "Sacred Mushroom Edition" cut of Kenneth Anger's experimental film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome circulated that used the ELO song as its score instead of the original Glagolitic Mass by Czech composer Leoš Janáček

Channel U

Channel AKA, a UK music video channel owned by Mushroom TV, previously known as Channel U TV

Cortinarius austrovenetus

Initially described as Cortinarius austrovenetus by Australian naturalist John Burton Cleland in 1928, this mushroom along with many other members of the group was separated from the huge genus Cortinarius, and placed in the newer genus Dermocybe, commonly called Skin-heads, derived from the meaning of their scientific names.

Countrywise

For example, the edition broadcast on 10 December 2010 mentioned gathering mushrooms, and mentioned the cep mushroom.

Fiddleford

Interesting flora grows in the different seasons, such as holly in the winter, and the Dunce Cap (Conocybe) Mushroom in the autumn.

Gamma-Amanitin

It is an amatoxin, a group of toxins isolated from and found in several members of the Amanita genus of mushrooms, one being the Death cap (Amanita phalloides) as well as the Destroying angel, a complex of similar species, principally A. virosa and A. bisporigera.

Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

Amanita caesarea — the edible and highly prized Caesar's mushroom

Greensulate

The mix is used as a base for the growth of the oyster mushroom, Pleurotus ostreatus.

Hygrophorus bakerensis

The specific epithet bakerensis refers to Mount Baker, a volcano in the North Cascades of Washington State in the United States, where the mushroom was first collected.

Ibotenic acid

"Ibotenic" comes from the Japanese name for the Amanita strobiliformis mushroom, iboten(gutake), from which it was first isolated.

In a Priest Driven Ambulance

The song "Take Meta Mars" is closely modeled on the Can song "Mushroom" off the album Tago Mago.

Inocybe geophylla

The fruiting body is a small all-white or cream mushroom with a fibrous silky umbonate cap and adnexed gills.

John Dies at the End

They spend the chapter collecting ammo from kills, breaking crates for items, numbered keys to locked rooms, and specifically for John's benefit, what appears to be a 1up mushroom that saved him from the gunshot Dave delivered to his head, reversing the titular death.

John M. Allegro

The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross argued that Jesus in the Gospels was in fact a code for a type of hallucinogen, the Amanita muscaria, and that Christianity was the product of an ancient "sex-and-mushroom" cult.

Lactarius deliciosus

In the Girona area, this type of mushroom is called a pinatell (in Catalan) because it is collected near wild pine trees; they are typically harvested in October following the late August rain.

Lactarius fuliginellus

Described as a new species in 1962 by American mycologists Alexander H. Smith and Lexemuel Ray Hesler, the mushroom is found in North America.

Lactarius rupestris

Although the fungus is suspected to be mycorrhizal (like all Lactarius), there was a wide diversity of plant species growing in the open, dry forest where the mushroom was found (including members of the tree families Euphorbiaceae, Fabaceae, Myrtaceae, Nyctaginaceae, and Polygonaceae—all known to form mycorrhizal associations), so the authors did not speculate on any specific interactions.

M. vulgaris

Mycena vulgaris, a saprotrophic mushroom species in the genus Mycena

Monomethylhydrazine

Monomethylhydrazine is believed to be the main cause of the toxicity of Gyromitra genus mushrooms, especially the false morel (Gyromitra esculenta).

Mushroom Corner, Washington

Mushroom Corner is located in the urban growth area of Lacey, along Interstate 5 south of Olympia, and is included in the Tanglewilde-Thompson Place Census-designated place (CDP) for Census purposes.

Mycena minirubra

The mushroom was originally found growing on the fallen leaves of Elaeocarpus dentatus, a species of flowering plant in the Elaeocarpaceae family.

P. graveolens

Psilocybe graveolens, a mushroom species discovered in the salt marshes of Hackensack, New Jersey

Panaeolina foenisecii

In 1963 Tyler and Smith found that this mushroom contains serotonin, 5-HTP and 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid.

Phallolysin

Phallolysin is a toxic hemolysin that has been isolated from the death cap mushroom Amanita phalloides.

Pleurotus sajor-caju

Lentinus sajor-caju, a species of mushroom formerly called Pleurotus sajor-caju

Psilocybe muliercula

Unable to locate this species in the field, botanist Roger Heim and mycologist Rolf Singer based their descriptions of this mushroom on dried specimens purchased from Matlatzinca Indians in the marketplace of Tenango del Valle, in the Nevado de Toluca region of the state of Mexico.

Psilocybe zapotecorum

1963: Roger Heim describes this mushroom in the work "Les Champignons Toxiques et Hallucinogènes."

Rainbow Valley Conservation Reserve

A marked trail leads to another featured formation called Mushroom Rock where Fairy Martin nests are located high up on the rock wall.

Russula integra

In Romanian, the mushroom is called pâinişoară ("little bread") due to its edibility and perceived taste and texture.

Rydz

Rydz is a Polish surname, and a Polish name for Lactarius deliciosus mushroom.

Tassili n'Ajjer

In his 1992 book Food of the Gods, new-age icon Terence McKenna hypothesized that the Neolithic culture that inhabited the site used psilocybin mushrooms as part of its religious ritual life, citing rock paintings showing persons holding mushroom-like objects in their hands, as well as mushrooms growing from their bodies.

Termitomyces schimperi

In the plural the mushroom is referred to as Omajowa (with the alternative spelling of omajova or omayova) by both the Herero and Ovambo people of Namibia.

The Voice in the Night

John Brosnan's novel The Fungus from 1985 has a similar plot, where mutated fungi destroy England, and those infected die or become mutated mushroom people, depending on what kind of fungus they have become infected with.

Timballo

Mushroom sauce or fonduta, a rich Piedmontese cheese soup and sauce, are sometimes used, and Anna Del Conte wrote that Béchamel is the most consistently used ingredient in timballos.

Tricholoma

Some well-known species are the East Asian Tricholoma matsutake, also known as "matsutake" or songi, and the North American species Tricholoma magnivelare, also known as "ponderosa mushroom", "American matsutake", or "Pine mushroom".

Trogia

A team led by Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention epidemiologist Zeng Guang suggests that the element barium, present in local foods and contaminated water, may increase the toxicity of the Trogia mushroom.

Ustalic acid

Ustalic acid is a naturally occurring chemical compound found in the poisonous mushroom Tricholoma ustale.

Yunzhi

Trametes versicolor, known in Chinese as Yunzhi (雲芝), a type of mushroom


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