15
Jan
There are many thousands of types of mushrooms. How much should one sequence differ from another in order to say you have a new species.
Various types are hallucinogenic 1 to 2 of species are poisonous and others are used for their medicinal properties.
How many species of mushrooms are there. Currently there are over 10000 known types of mushrooms. That may seem like a large number but mycologists suspect that this is only a fraction of whats out there. We can put these various species in one of 4 categories.
Saprotrophic mycorrhizal parasitic and endophytic. These categories describe how the the organism feeds itself. There are many varieties of mushrooms that have medicinal benefits.
Some popular edible mushrooms with medicinal benefits include shiitake maitake lions mane and porcini. Other medicinal mushrooms are inedible as they are too woody or too bitter to ingest. Instead of being eaten these varieties can be made into teas or taken in capsule.
Amazingly there may be more than 10000 edible mushrooms around the world. Because there are so many species of edible mushrooms and many more that are either just inedible or even poisonous you want to be an expert forager before going out and picking your own mushrooms. 15 Popular Edible Mushrooms 1.
1 How many mushrooms are there. This is a tough one. No one knows how many types of fleshy fungi exist in nature.
There are about 10000 described species known from North America but everyone agrees that there are undiscovered species. Depending on who you believe the known species are a third to a fifth of whats really out there. There are over 600 species of this genus and it includes black bread mold one of the most frequently sighted by humans.
Another is Pilobolus which is capable of ejecting spores several meters through the air. White button mushrooms are the fruiting bodies of Agaricus bisporus a species of fungi. How long should it be.
How much should one sequence differ from another in order to say you have a new species. An article in the American Journal of Botany from 2011 indicated there could be anywhere from one to more than five million species while an article in Science Daily in 2015. There are many thousands of types of mushrooms.
Only a small percentage of them are poisonous and dozens of different types of mushrooms are not only edible but are considered desirable for eating. Among the most popular of the different types of mushrooms that are used in foods are white mushrooms morels truffles and portabella mushrooms. There are over 180 types of magic mushrooms all with different potency levels some 12x more than others in different habitats throughout the world.
They all have different levels of active ingredients which include psilocybin psilocin and baeocystin. There are over 50000 species of mushrooms including molds and yeasts. Various types are hallucinogenic 1 to 2 of species are poisonous and others are used for their medicinal properties.
There are over 5000 species of mushrooms in the United StatesWhile many kinds of mushrooms are safe to eat be sure that you are with someone who knows how to properly identify and cook mushrooms. Ascomycota is the largest phylum of fungi with over 64000 species. Some of these fungi are extremely valuable to humans for their culinary applications.
There are two main groups or subphyla. Pezizomycotina fungi have fruiting bodies similar to mushrooms and include morels truffles ergot. About 30 wild species of mushrooms are known to be consistently fatal due to high levels of toxicity.
The autumn skullcap mushroom contains amatoxin and can result in death within seven days due to liver failure The destroying angel is the most common toxic mushroom worldwide containing high levels of amatoxins that cause fatal mycetism. There are over 200 species and numerous subspecies in the genus Psilocybe alone. Spread across these different genera different magic mushrooms strains and species vary in their look color and potency.
It is not possible to talk about all of them in this post so we are limiting ourselves to the most popular species and strains. While there are over 14000 types of mushrooms you could find in the wild if you were to go to Google right now and search for mushroom hunting the top results on the page will be picture of the Morel mushroom. It is the most sought after mushroom to hunt in the world.