Portal:Fungi/Did you know/24


 * ... that despite its acrid taste, Lactarius vietus is edible after boiling?
 * ... that wolf lichen, fungal species Letharia vulpina, was used historically as a wolf poison by combining it with powdered glass and meat?
 * ... that species from Cookeina, a genus of cup fungi, are used in Peninsular Malaysia as fish bait?
 * ... that consuming the elfin saddle mushroom would result in the harmful formation of monomethylhydrazine, a component of rocket fuel, in your body?
 * ... that Tricholoma ustaloides, generally considered an inedible species of mushroom, is consumed by inhabitants of some Mexican communities?