The scientific name of the demon cigar "Chorioactis" and the scientific name of the Chinese "Schizocus diasteris". One of the rarest mushrooms in the world, it is also known as the "Texas Star". This strange mushroom is found only in central Texas, two remote areas of Japan, and the Nara Mountains. The demon cigar is dark brown in color, with a cigar-like sporangia that splits to become a tan star, releasing spores and making a very different whistle. Demon cigars are one of the few fungi known to make a whistling sound when releasing spores.
Brain mushroom, deer flower fungus, a type of fungus, is widely distributed in Europe and North America. It occurs in spring and early summer and generally grows in sandy soils under pine trees. Its fruiting body (i.e., the mushroom) has an irregular brain shape, is generally dark brown in color, about 10 cm tall and 15 cm wide, and inhabits a thick white stalk 6 cm high. Although it is a poisonous inedible strain, it is still a popular cuisine in Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, and the northern part of the five major lakes of North America. In Spain, it is banned. In Finland, its sale is not prohibited, but must be accompanied by clear warning signs and detailed instructions for its proper use. It cannot be eaten raw, and it must be cooked half-cooked when eaten, but even if it is fully cooked, it cannot be guaranteed to be completely safe.
Hydnellum pecki, also known as the blood tooth fungus, actually has many different names, all related to oranges or blood. This fungus is commonly found in the United States, especially in the Pacific Northwest, and also grows commonly in pine forests.
As soon as you see it, you will think that the bright red liquid on its cap is some poor animal passing by and splashing on its white cap. But if you look closely, you'll see that this is a liquid oozing from its own pores. Hematodontum, also known as "devil's teeth" or "strawberry with cream", is not toxic. However, the mushroom tastes bitter to avoid becoming a plate meal for humans and animals. Scientists have found that the bright red liquid exuded by the dental bacteria contains an anticoagulant called "Atromentrin", which has similar properties to the natural organic anticoagulant heparin.
Another unusual member of the fungal family, the blood-toothed fungus, also has many different names, all related to oranges or blood. This fungus is commonly found in the United States, especially in the Pacific Northwest, and also grows commonly in pine forests. It has also been found in Europe and, more recently, in Iran and South Korea. As soon as you see it, you will think that the bright red liquid on its cap is some poor animal passing by and splashing on its white cap. But if you look closely, you'll see that this is a liquid oozing from its own pores.
The giant bald horse, belonging to the species Mabo, is typically a soccer ball-sized specimen that is white, and the largest found to be 5 feet long and weighs 50 pounds.
Depending on its shape and size, the giant bald horse is well identified, and the typical specimen is similar to the size of a football, but not so round. However, it may be much larger than a soccer ball (the largest foot found so far is 5 feet long and weighs 50 pounds!). And it's shaped more like a ball than a ball. But it can never look like an inverted pear because it doesn't have the sterile base part that is common to other Maboella species. Mature Maboella explodes at the slightest touch and explodes a mist of dust. The giant bald horse Bordo was born after the rain and was an inhospitable mushroom.
Depending on its shape and size, the giant bald horse is well identified, and the typical specimen is similar to the size of a football, but not so round. However, it may be much larger than a soccer ball (the largest foot found so far is 5 feet long and weighs 50 pounds!). And it's shaped more like a ball than a ball. But it can never look like an inverted pear because it doesn't have the sterile base part that is common to other Maboella species.
The popular name comes from their appearance, which looks very similar to the fan-shaped tail of a wild turkey.
Scientific name: Turkey tail mushroom, origin: usually found all over the world
Medicinal Value: Usually, turkey tail mushrooms are not edible, and they are often used as prescription materials in traditional Chinese medicine. Recently, scientists have studied and analyzed turkey tail mushrooms and found that they contain isolated polysaccharide-K, a human immune system booster that Japanese medicine has used as an adjunct to cancer treatment.
The sky blue mushroom (Entoloma hochstetteri), scientific name Huo's powdery fungus, is a mushroom of the genus Umbellifera, a mushroom found in New Zealand and India, with a distinctive all-blue color, mainly distributed in the woods of the North Island and the western South Island of New Zealand, growing in moist soils, especially in litter and moss in broad-leaved and Luohan pine forests.
In 2002, New Zealand issued a series of fungal stamps, including The Hodge's Powdery Fold Fungus, which also has a sky blue mushroom motif on the back of the New Zealand $50 bill.
This noodle-looking mushroom has many different names, such as lion's mane mushroom, lion's head mushroom, hedgehog mushroom, bearded tooth fungus, etc.
The noodle-like mushroom, known as hericium erinaceus, can be found on both live and dead trees (usually broad-leaved trees). The mushroom is edible and has a similar color and texture to seafood when cooked. Also known as the "hedgehog mushroom" or "beard of Satyros" (Satyros is the forest god of half-man, half-sheep), this mushroom is not a delicacy, but it is beneficial to the body. Traditional Chinese medicine has used this mushroom for hundreds of years to treat diseases. Scientists have found that the mushroom has antioxidant properties and can reduce glucose levels in the blood. Scientists are studying it to determine whether compounds can be found that can be used to develop drugs for the prevention of dementia. [1-2]
This noodle-looking mushroom has many different names, such as lion's mane mushroom, lion's head mushroom, hedgehog mushroom, bearded tooth fungus, etc. In the tooth fungus family, it is an edible mushroom. Wild bearded dental mushrooms are common in late summer and fall, usually growing on decaying hardwood plants, especially on American beech.
Snakehead mycology can be called the ugliest fungus. The stalk is cylindrical, the cap is bright red, and the cap is covered with viscous spores with a foul odor.
Morphological characteristics: the fruiting body is small, 6-8 cm tall. The bacterium is white, ovoid or nearly oval, 2-3 cm tall and 1-1.5 cm thick. The stalk is cylindrical, spongy, hollow, 0.8–1 cm thick, pink on the upper part and white in the lower part. The cap is bright red, with no clear boundary with the stalk, conical, with small holes at the apex, 1-2 cm long, with a nearly smooth or warty protrusion on the surface, on which there are dark green viscous and smelly spores. The spores are colorless, oblong-oval, 3.5-4.5 μm × 1.5-2 μm.
Ecological habits: Summer and autumn are born on the ground in the forest, often singly or scattered, and sometimes in groups.
Distribution area: Hebei, Jilin, Qinghai, etc.
Economic use: Toxic in the record.
Researchers recently discovered Mycena luxarboricola, a small mushroom that can fluoresce in Brazil's rainforest near the Atlantic Ocean, which grows solely on bark. Des Jardin of San Francisco State University said, "When you walk through the rainforest, you'll find trees sparkling next to them. ”
The cause of the fungus's luminescence remains a mystery. Mushrooms usually emit light from sites containing spores, which some scientists believe may help attract the attention of insects and help them spread their spores elsewhere to generate new mushrooms. But in foxfire, linear-like mycelium (the part that allows the fungus to get nutrients) glows.
If they are very attractive luminous structures, insects attracted to the mycelium may be detrimental to them. Des Jardin said: "At the moment we do not know the cause of mycelium glow. Perhaps they glow in order to attract the natural enemies of these insects, and are eliminated by their natural enemies before these insects destroy the mycelium. But we don't yet have any data that can support this view. ”
Poison fly umbrella psychedelic mushroom (scientific name: Amanita muscaria), also known as poison fly Amanita fungus, toad fungus poison fly mushroom, commonly known in English as fly agaric or fly Amanita, is a kind of nasal fungus containing neurological poisons of the basidon fungus, one of the genus Amanita. The fungal fruiting body is larger. The cap is 6-20 cm wide. The edges have distinctly short ridges, bright red or orange-red surfaces, and have white or slightly yellow granular scales. The fungal folds are pure white, dense, detached, and unequal in length. The flesh is white and red near the epidermis of the lid. Today, the poison fly umbrella is mainly known for its hallucinatory toxicity, and its psychostimulant component is a compound, muscimol. This toxin was used by the inhabitants of Siberia as a medicine that caused hallucinations and out-of-body feelings, and had religious significance in their culture. The Tunguska and Yaku people of Siberia used it as a traditional festival mushroom. Generally, adults will have a feeling of intoxication after eating one, and they think it is a kind of enjoyment. India used it as a potion for magicians. In some countries it is used as a sleeping pill. In northeast China, this fungus was broken up and mixed into rice to poison flies, and even rats and other harmful animals. There has been a lot of speculation about the use of this mushroom for traditional purposes, suggesting that the mushroom's toxins were used across Siberia to cause hallucinations, but these legends are too old to be fully examined. Robert Gordon Watson, an American banker and amateur behavioral fungist, proposed that the poison fly umbrella was in fact sumo wine mentioned in the Indian religious classic Pear Veda; even though this theory was refuted by anthropologists, it was universally accepted when the theory was first published in 1968.