El Micelio — The Simbiosis Blog
Historia y Etnomicología
The oldest beer in the world is 13,000 years old and was made by a fungus. The medicine that saved the most lives in history was discovered by a fungus that contaminated a petri dish. And organ transplants exist thanks to a fungus from Norwegian soil. This is the story of how the fungi kingdom built modern civilization.
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Yeasts, ferments, and penicillin: the fungi that built modern civilization
Historia y Etnomicología
Ethnomycology — the study of human use of fungi — reveals that mushrooms have been food, medicine, religious symbols, and tools for consciousness transformation in almost every civilization in the world. The story we were told about mushrooms is incomplete.
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Ethnomycology: when fungi were medicine, food, and a portal
FungiFacts
90% of land plants cannot survive without fungi. The beer you drink exists thanks to a fungus. The largest living organism in the world is a fungus. And we've only known for 12 years that fungi can talk to each other. These are the 15 facts nobody told you about the kingdom that supports everything.
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FungiFacts #1 — 15 mushroom facts that will change the way you see them
Historia y Etnomicología
From July to October, when the rains saturate Mexico's temperate forests, the ground explodes in fungal diversity. The Hongosto — as connoisseurs call this season — is one of the country's richest gastronomic and cultural phenomena, and one of the least known outside the communities that lead it.
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Hongosto: the season that turns Mexican forests into a market