In China, scientists have found the biggest mushroom, which refers to the tinder (F. Ellipsoidea).The weight of its fruit body - about 500 kg, a length of macromycetes reaches about 10 meters, and width - about 80 cm. According to preliminary estimates, his age is not less than 20 years.It contains 450 million spores.
Polypore - a mushroom that grows on wood and soil.Externally, they are different from the "classic" macromycetes.Fruiting bodies of typically are rigid and flat plates.Discovered in China, the biggest mushroom tinder for a long time grew under the ground, so remained hidden from the eyes.This allowed macromycetes grow to such huge sizes.The scientists who found the fungus, they say that in that area a lot of tinder, but before such gigantic specimens no one has yet found.They argue that simply studied the local macromycetes and accidentally stumbled upon a strange brown hill.A more detailed study he was a great tinder.
However, the biggest mushroom in the world, biologists have found in relic forests of the United States.It is considered the largest living thing on the planet.However, if the reader imagines a mushroom the size of a house, it will be disappointed.Macromycetes honey agaric honey or dark (Armillaria ostoyae) fits easily in the hand and not too noticeable.All business in the area of the mycelium, which grew at the Oregon woods about 2,500 years, destroying the root systems of the trees in its path.Therefore, the fungus is considered a monster.Its mycelium, which is a single organism, occupying 880 hectares of one of the national parks in Oregon.Its tentacles are located underground and entangle territory equal in size in 1665-five football fields.Therefore, this macromycetes and is the largest on the planet.
Of course, many people are interested in the question of whether to eat the biggest mushroom?Oregon biologist Tina Dreysbach claims that honey agaric honey edible.However, there is a "monster" would not advise it.Tina says that even though honey fungus and is called, it tastes quite sweet, and eat it can only be with a lot of garlic and butter.
to American biologists are now the main task is to learn to control the growth of mycelium macromycetes.Because the biggest in the world like mushrooms Armillaria honey can wipe out entire forests.The problem lies more in the fact that macromycetes developed thousands of years naturally.Therefore, interruption of its development could have a negative impact on the ecosystem of Oregon forests.Scientists are studying the body and try to predict the consequences of any action.Photos of the biggest mushroom you can see in this article.
If we talk about traditional macromycetes in the conventional sense, the leader of the size can be called Macrocybe Titans, which grows in the Caribbean and the United States.In one of the southern Mexican states in 2007 it was found a copy of whose mass is 20 kg and height - about 70 cm. However, this finding is not unique.In 2005, the United States found the fungus, which was equal to the weight of the whole 28-kilograms.Such large size makes this macromycetes object of attention of the scientific community.
