The "kingdom of fungi" Mother found mushrooms - giant weighing 15 kg

China's Yunnan Province is known as "the kingdom of mushrooms", since there the forests are more than 600 species of edible mushrooms. Recently, there has been found a mushroom of monstrous proportions, the form of which has not yet been defined. The diameter of its cap is 93 cm, and weight - about 15 kg.

Fungi are neither plants nor animals - they are a distinct group of living organisms and reproduce normally spores containing a nucleus with chromosomes. Despite its appearance, the fungus is closer to animals than to plants.

Mushroom industry in China each year brings the state a huge profit, for example, in 2005, the year it was $ 44 million. Some of the most delicious and expensive species of fungi, such as, for example, matsutake that is appreciated in Japan as a delicacy, grow it in Yunnan .



Probably found in China, a giant mushroom is not safe to eat - many species of mushrooms are poisonous. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University believe that hallucinogens contained some "magic mushrooms", could someday help treat a variety of mental disorders, including depression, anxiety and addiction.

It is unknown whether China will find other such mushrooms or mushroom found - an isolated case, but it is not the largest in the world - in 1998, the giant honey agaric dark cave was discovered in the US state of Oregon. Its area - 965 hectares, and was at least 2,400 years.

via factroom.ru