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Minnesota was the first to declare a species; Morchella esculenta was chosen as its state mushroom in 1984, and codified into Statute in 2010. [1] Four other states, Missouri, Washington, Massachusetts, and New York [2] [3] [4] have had state mushrooms proposed.
According to the Missouri Department of Conservation, Calvatia gigantea typically grows up to 20–50 centimetres (8– 19 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) wide and high. [2] According to First Nature, it "can grow to 80 cm diameter and weigh several kilograms". [3] A specimen weighing over 23 kg (51 lb) was recorded in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada. [4]
The fungus was first described in 1800, by mycologist Christian Hendrik Persoon, as Helvella esculenta, [3] and gained its current accepted binomial name when the Swedish mycologist Elias Magnus Fries placed it in the genus Gyromitra in 1849. [4] The genus name is derived from the Greek terms gyros/γυρος "round" and mitra/μιτρα ...
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Hericium erinaceus, commonly known as lion's mane, yamabushitake, bearded tooth fungus, or bearded hedgehog, [1] [2] is a species of tooth fungus.It tends to grow in a single clump with dangling spines longer than 1 centimetre (1 ⁄ 2 inch).
Each subterranean sclerotium produces several mushrooms above ground. Laetiporus sulphureus, Polyporaceae Widespread in Northern Hemisphere. Approximately half of a specimen found by Ty Whitmore near Maysville, Missouri in October 2005 was 76 cm (30 in) wide by 41 cm (16 in) top to bottom. [47] [48] [49] 41 cm (16 in) top to bottom.
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