FUN FACTS & CRAZY FACTS

Crazy Facts!

A long times ago before trees overtook land, earth was covered by giants mushroom!

In Devonian era (450 m.y.a.), there are a giants objects named as Prototaxites. For a long times scientists confused between it being a tree, fungal, algae, lichen, or even a liverwort. However, recent finding states that it is a fungi. Based on archeologies, this prehistoric buddy up to 24 feet (8 meters) high and as wide as three feet (one meter). This organisms roams the earth when the trees are much smaller and majority of others still underwater.

It is one of the most largest organisms during Devonian

Prototaxites fossils that have being escavated

The fossils Prototaxites of and the diagrams that have being illustrated to imagine how Prototaxites would be like

It'S taste like CHICKEN

Did you know there are mushroom in a wild that taste like chicken. Yes, there is. The fungi name Laetiporus sulphureus. This mushroom has a lemony, meaty taste. Some think it tastes like its chicken namesake; others describe the flavor as being more like crab or lobster. Whatever your opinion, the chicken fungus makes a great substitute for meat in almost any dish.

Sadly, this is one of those mushrooms that sometimes causes gastric distress in certain people. If you want to avoid a possible stomach misadventure, only try a little bit your first time to see what it does to you. Also always avoid chicken of the woods growing on conifers, eucalyptus, or cedar trees, as these are reported to contain toxins that can make people sick.

Glowing likes lamp

More than 70 species of mushrooms exist on Earth can glow in the dark. What I mean glow is emitting light. Like lamp, but alive. This is known as bioluminencent fungi. Bioluminencent is a word that discribes the organisms can produced it's own light. The bioluminescent glow is like a neon advertising sign; in the case of mushrooms, it's meant to attract insects that can then spread the mushrooms' spores and allow them to reproduce and spread. Insects crawling over the real bioluminescent mushroom can disperse the fungal spores, helping the fungi species spread and survive.

1) Fungi recycle plants after they die and transform them into rich soil. If not for mushrooms and fungi, the Earth would be buried in several feet of debris and life on the planet would soon disappear.

2) Under the right conditions, some mushrooms' spores can sit dormant for decades or even a century, and still grow!

3) Mushrooms are about 85-95% of water.

4) The oldest fungi are known is 545 years old. Microscopic fossils were found in northen Russia.

5) One of the daintiest, prettiest fungi is the Maiden Veil Fungus that smells like rotting meat •

6) The fungi in freshwater habitats comprise a diverse assemblage of true fungi and fungus-like straminipiles and protist.

7) A giant puffball which is Calvatia gigantea can be up to two feet long and contain 7 trillion spores.

8) Mushroom are the only fresh fruit or vegetable with Vitamin D.

9) A portabella mushroom cap has more pottasium per 100g serving than a banana.

10) It can make beautiful colors by boiling wild mushrooms and dipping cloth in the resulting broth. The book The Rainbow Beneath My Feet tell how to make dyes with mushrooms .

11) Ancient Egyptians believed mushrooms were the plant immortality according to the hieroglyphics of 4600 years ago.

12) White button mushrooms are the most popular variety representing 90% of mushrooms consumed inthe United States