Mushroom is a kind of fungus. Its basic structure is a kind of white thread like elements. These fungus remain as if like a web of a spider. These fungus extract their food materials from the decayed substances from the environment. Basically being mushroom a vegetable it should have lied on the kingdom plant, but as its colour not being green or we can say as being the absence of chlorophyll in it, it lies the kingdom fungi. Which means it does not undergo photosynthesis and cannot prepare its food itself, rather we have to provide a suitable temperature, humidity and air for its food preparation. It also has a different kind of life cycle very much different than that of plants. And unfortunately has a very less life span, may be less than a week, and hence very difficult to store mushrooms for a long period of time. Well most of the mushrooms are white in colour but may vary according to the types of mushrooms. A typical mushrooms carries lots and lots of spores around it which is why the person responsible for its cultivation has to wear a mask while going for the yield.
If we talk about the structure of a mushrooms, the shape and size of it may differ from the types of species, but a normal mushroom has a root below the substratum, a stipe above it, and a cap like an umbrella over its stem i.e. stipe, with the presence of a huge amount of gills below it. And this is a food which is very rich in protein as comparison to that of a meat. About the evolution of a mushroom different has their different view in this matter. In the ancient age it use to grow in the forest area but later on it was developed by the people as a Cash crop. The most famous and popular whose name is Agricus Bisporus was brought in Paris during the period of 1800, and the process of producing the spawn for mushrooms reached to England afterwards, followed by us in 1890s and so on. In the ancient age it is also said that in china, the Chinese people not only use the mushrooms for the food purpose, they also use them as a kind of medicine which use to make them young for a long period of time. Also the emperors of the Greek use to eat mushrooms as a most tasty item during their food. In this way mushrooms are famous since long time ago.
After the development of mushrooms, the producers use to produce it in huge amount in the form of a cash crop and till now approx. 25-30 species of common eatable mushrooms are cultivated. And now in this generation not only for the tastier food but also for the medical and study purposes the mushrooms are in use. They are now cultivated in a large scale in the countries like China, Japan, Thailand, Philippines, Malaysia, Europe, America, Australia etc. The most mushroom producing country is china as the canned mushrooms from china roams all around the world.
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