oh man, my wife wants me to eat more mushrooms, but it's just hard for me to eat spore bearing fungus that use soil as a food source!
That's crazy, I love mushrooms! How are they even grown anyways?
the whole process starts when a mushroom's gills make little spores that spread over the ground and make new mushrooms!
Where do people even find mushrooms? I've seen them in my yard but I'm pretty sure those ones aren't edible.
Psilocybe semilanceata
Psilocybe semilanceata, commonly known as the liberty cap, is a psilocybin or "magic" mushroom that contains the psychoactive compounds psilocybin which the body breaks down to psilocin, and the alkaloid baeocystin. It is both one of the most widely distributed psilocybin mushrooms in nature, and one of the most potent. The mushrooms have a distinctive conical to bell-shaped cap, up to in diameter, with a small nipple-like protrusion on the top. They are yellow to brown, covered with radial grooves when
Lanka. The fungus and the termites have a complex symbiotic relationship. The termites cultivate the fungus on plant material within the mound, which they eat. The nutrients in their food are made more digestible by the fungus. After rain, the fungus is triggered into producing large mushrooms that grow and spread spores elsewhere.
Consumption.
In October 1972, it was recorded as being sold in markets in Midnapore in West Bengal. In the northern Malaysian state of Kedah, it is eaten by locals and known as "cendawan