Here’s more mushy trivia. • Mushrooms reproduce by launching microscopic “spores”—airborne seedlike structures—into the air. There are probably 10,000 spores in the air around you right now, many of which will land in wet dirt and grow into mushrooms. • Mushrooms eat by extending tiny tubes called hyphae into their food (like dead wood). This injects an acid into the food that dissolves it into a soup, which then travels back up the hyphae to the mushroom. • 90% of mushrooms purchased in the U.S. are white, or “button,” mushrooms. • Mushroom Capital of the World: Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. Farms and businesses in and around the town produce half of all American mushrooms. • September is National Mushroom Month. • Every year about 40 people in the United States die from eating wild mushrooms they didn’t think were poisonous. • MSG, the flavor-enhancing chemical often added to Chinese food, is a synthetic form of glutamic acid, found naturally in mushrooms.
What do You think about Uncle John's Endlessly Engrossing Bathroom Reader?
