Portal:Fungi/Did you know/7


 * ... that consumption of the psychoactive mushroom Psilocybe argentipes by mice who compulsively bury marbles significantly inhibits this behaviour?
 * ... that the mushroom Entoloma austroprunicolor of Tasmania's wet forests changes from bluish-purple, to reddish purple, to purplish grey as it ages?
 * ... that Disciotis venosa, Hygrophorus subalpinus, Mycena overholtsii, Plectania nannfeldtii, Ramaria botrytis, and Clitocybe glacialis are all mushrooms that grow in or near snowbanks?
 * ... that the spiny puffball, an edible fungus, can inhibit the growth of several bacteria pathogenic to humans?
 * ... that Cantharellus lateritius may typically be distinguished from other chanterelles by its smooth under surface?