When scientists and archaeologists examined the body of Otzi the Iceman - a 5,300-year-old natural mummy discovered in the Italian Alps in 1991 - they found birch polypore mushrooms among his ...
In May 2024, Vermont designated the bear’s head tooth – also known as Hericium Americanum, which means the “Hedgehog of the Americas” – as its state mushroom. The white, spiny fungus, found growing on ...