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Edible mushroom species have been found in association with 13,000-year-old archaeological sites in Chile. Ötzi, the mummy of a man who lived between 3400 and 3100 BCE in Europe, was found with two types of mushroom. The Chinese value mushrooms for their supposed medicinal properties as well as for food.
A mushroom edible, also sometimes known as "legal shrooms", is a food item that may contain hallucinogens associated with those in psychoactive mushrooms, such as psilocybin mushrooms or Amanita muscaria mushrooms.
Raw morel mushrooms are 90% water, 5% carbohydrates, 3% protein, and 1% fat. A 100 gram reference amount supplies 31 calories , and is a rich source of iron (94% of the Daily Value , DV), manganese , phosphorus , zinc , and vitamin D (34% DV, if having been exposed to sunlight or artificial ultraviolet light ).
[11] The species has been named state mushroom of Minnesota, and was the first state mushroom of any state. [24] [25] It can also be found in Brazil and Bulgaria. [26] In Jammu and Kashmir wild mushrooms, locally known as Himalayan wild mushroom, Gucchi, Morchella conica and Morchella esculenta, are gathered and supplied as medical remedy. [27]
In the UK, it may be found from July through to November. The stipe is inedible due to being very fibrous in texture, unless dried and ground into a powder. Macrolepiota procera is also edible raw, though its close lookalikes in the genus Chlorophyllum are toxic raw. These mushrooms are popularly sauteed in melted butter.
Hypsizygus tessulatus, the beech mushroom, is an edible mushroom [3] native to East Asia. It is cultivated locally in temperate climates in Europe, North America and Australia and sold fresh in super markets. In nature, these are gilled mushrooms that grow on wood. Most often the mushroom is found on beech trees, hence the common name ...
Texas Star Mushrooms, which attach themselves to decaying cedar elm stumps, have been found in just 16 counties in central and northern Texas, researchers at the Botanical Research Institute of ...
Craterellus cornucopioides, or horn of plenty, is an edible mushroom found in North America and Eurasia. It is also known as the black chanterelle, black trumpet, trompette de la mort (French), trompeta de la mort (Catalan) or trumpet of the dead.