The Most Interesting But Unusual Features of Mushrooms
Published by Mushrooms are amazing but bizarre non-flowering plants that spring up overnight. They look like little umbrellas, or seats for fairies and even rest houses for small creatures. Fresh mushrooms are natural hidden treasure for human health as they offer a variety of nutrients and essential trace elements for immunity.
Mushrooms aren’t plants. Plants, especially green plants, make their own food through photosynthesis, but mushrooms do not. Mushrooms are non-flowering plants and thus they don’t produce flowers.
Since mushrooms aren’t animals, they cannot move around like animals. Mushrooms belong to a group of fungi. They look magical as they spring up everywhere overnight. Now, look at mushrooms in rotting wood and damp soil and I’m sure you’ll be surprised at what you come across!
There, of course, hidden in the mushrooms are tiny spores which look as though specks of dust. The wind and rain carry the spores drop from the mushrooms away. If the spores land on a rotting log or a damp soil, they begin to grow. Soon, new “baby” mushrooms will push up through the soil “to see this world”.
Wow, this is really a great place for a little frog to rest! A mushroom makes an excellent umbrella for a little toad/frog too! Look carefully, mushrooms look magical-like little umbrellas, or seats for small creatures and fairies as well.
Long time ago, people used to think that toads made mushrooms poisonous by sitting on top of them. But, scientists declared that this statement is not true. Still, people call poisonous mushrooms as “toadstools”. And for toads themselves, these mushrooms make excellent stools for them!
Some mushrooms are so small, and you can hardly see them.
These mushrooms grow as big as a size of a dinner plate or even bigger!
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On March 27, 2010 at 4:23 am
A interesting post. You have really educated me on mushrooms. Well done.
Christine
On March 27, 2010 at 5:02 am
Very interesting article. I know there are lots of mushroom species out there, but many of them are non-edible. Wanna share this, Chan, thanks.
On March 27, 2010 at 5:07 am
A well researched post, Chan. Mushrooms are my favorites except of course, toxic ones.
On March 27, 2010 at 7:15 am
Outstanding photos and a very interesting article as always, Thanks Chan for sharing
On March 27, 2010 at 7:37 am
Great research on Mushrooms. Well, they have a great diversity in size, shape, colour and habitat they live..
Kudos.
On March 27, 2010 at 7:38 am
Great research on Mushrooms. Well, they have a great diversity in size, shape, colour and habitat they live..
Kudos.
On March 27, 2010 at 7:38 am
Great research on Mushrooms. Well, they have a great diversity in size, shape, colour and habitat they live..
Kudos.
On March 27, 2010 at 7:39 am
Great research on Mushrooms. Well, they have a great diversity in size, shape, colour and habitat they live..
On March 27, 2010 at 7:58 am
Great article Chan! The glow in the dark mushrooms are really cool!
On March 27, 2010 at 8:22 am
Very Impressive write
On March 27, 2010 at 8:42 am
Excellent. We love mushrooms, sauteed and stewed with other tender vegetable.
On March 27, 2010 at 9:23 am
An interesting read up on unusual and colorful mushrooms.
On March 27, 2010 at 4:00 pm
Fantastic! Very well-researched and interesting. Great work!
On March 27, 2010 at 5:54 pm
Wow! very interesting and well researched article. loved mushrooms too. great pictures as well. Liked it!
On March 27, 2010 at 6:07 pm
Very interesting and well presented article. The pictures were outstanding. I get bracket mushrooms on the oak trees in my backyard. They can grow quite large and right on top of each other.
On March 27, 2010 at 7:58 pm
Wonderful information and great pics too. You did a great job, my friend.
On March 28, 2010 at 10:21 am
Chan, this is a wonderfully researched article on mushrooms and I loved the pictures! Wherever did you find so many?
On March 28, 2010 at 2:22 pm
This is an excellent article, Chan, but those annoying ads on top of the pictures really took the fun out of it for me!
On March 28, 2010 at 9:05 pm
You did some great research on mushrooms. I really enjoyed reading about them and I liked the pics. I noticed that the frogs in a couple of the pics looked really small around the mushrooms.
On March 28, 2010 at 10:21 pm
The red ones look so cool and interesting. Great article Chan!
On March 29, 2010 at 2:33 am
nice and very interesting to read….
On March 29, 2010 at 7:16 am
Really cute article. No wonder there’s something called a toad stool.
On March 30, 2010 at 7:39 am
very nice share….thanks dear…..
On March 30, 2010 at 11:35 am
Those red mushrooms make me feel to take them, but I’ll remember your warning and stay away from them. Excellent article and well researched.
On March 31, 2010 at 12:42 am
I enjoy mushrooms but like you say they come in every shape, size and color. I wish I could tell the poisonous from the safe.
On March 31, 2010 at 10:06 am
I love taking photos of fungi, but I wouldn’t dare eat anything that didn’t come from the supermarket. Unless you know exactly what you’re doing they can be tricky to identify.
On April 1, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Excellent article with fantastic pictures. Mushrooms are quite delicious when sauteed and added as a side to any meal.
On April 12, 2010 at 12:30 am
Excellent article as well as excellent pictures.
On May 10, 2010 at 4:22 am
Exquisite presentation. Are ‘Aminita Muscaria’s’ a psychedelic mushroom?
On June 7, 2010 at 5:55 am
Amazing! I enjoyed reading this article! Thanks!