Where do mushrooms grow? Im doing this project for school and it would be wonderful...
Im doing this project for school and it would be wonderful if I could procure an answer soon (:
Answers: Usually in forests, or contained by the shade, often close to dead wood. I'm not a mushroom expert, but do know that lots of them are poisonous, especially the Amanita, which has a red sou`wester with white spots. Also the one near white gills are often poisonous. The gills are the radial tight pieces on the underside of the cap. If you indicate in what states, probably adjectives but the desert southwest, that's a guess, but they seem to similar to moist, shady places. My children, when on a vacation contained by Colorado, went on mushroom picking expeditions next to the people where on earth they were staying. They said they picked mushrooms as life-size as dinner plates.
If you are just looking for facts on mushrooms, here's one. Truffles, considered a prettiness, are found by using pigs to sniff them out.
Some species that cannot be easily cultivated, such as the truffle or matsutake, . specified in Italian as Fungo Porcino (plural 'porcini') (Pig mushroom), ...
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We be taught to mushroom hunt as children and other taught to look for the shag yap hickory trees. They loose more bark than other trees and mushrooms thrive within that kind of mossy, moist environment. So look for a shag yap tree and then look around the ground beneath it, almost always find mushrooms if the time of the year, weather and rainfall have be right.