Super Mario fans have fun playing with them. They are studied by doctors. Many chefs around the world prepare meals with them. They can appear in a matter of hours, disappear quickly and leave no trace. Mycologists are students of this world. Now, the fungus has been studied as a possible treatment to cancer, PTSD and other psychological disorders. You can buy mushrooms online in this site.

Mushrooms (sometimes called toadstools) are fleshy, fungus-like bodies that can grow above ground on soil, or on food. They live in an entirely separate kingdom from the plant world called Myceteae, and they don’t have chlorophyll as green plants.

Some mushrooms get nutrients from other sources, such as by eating higher plants and breaking down organic material. These are called decomposers. Another group attacks living plants in order to kill and eat them. They are called parasites. Mycorrhizal is a mycorrhizal that lives near the roots trees such as oaks or pines.

The mushrooms of mushrooms can do three things for humans: they can nourish, heal, and poison. Few mushrooms are considered benign. The most common edible versions of this meat of vegetable world’ include the oyster and morel.

They are popular in Asian cuisine, including Japan, Korea, Japan, India. China is the world’s largest producer, cultivating more than half the mushrooms consumed globally. Many of the edible varieties in supermarkets today have been grown on farms. They include enoki, portobello, and shiitake.

For centuries, mushrooms have been used as a part of Eastern medicine, especially in traditional Chinese practices. Studies in the U.S. were started in the early 1960s to examine possible ways to regulate the immune system, and to prevent tumor growth with extracts of mushrooms used in cancer research.

Native Mesoamericans used mushrooms ritually for thousands upon thousands of years. Aztecs called mushrooms the ‘flesh-of-the gods’. Many cultures across America used mushrooms in religious ceremonies. It is shown in cave paintings in Spain, Algeria and Spain that ritualized ingestion dates back up to 9000 year. Psilocybin was discovered by Western psychiatry after World War II. Christian authorities both on the Atlantic and in Spain were questioned about its use.