Mushrooms are fungus and recycle leaves, trees, even remains of animals.
Without mushrooms the planet would suffocate.
In Crete, the southern island of Greece, mushrooms are called “amanites” (latin
– “amanita”), from where mushrooms then were called “manitaria”.
Julius Caesar loved wild “amanites” (mushrooms), therefore in his palace there
were many of them.
Mushrooms “kapanouska” are the most delicious. In Grevena, there
are many of them.
There are toxic and poisonous mushrooms. If we cut those who
are lethal, the poison will be spread in the soil.
The most dangerous mushroom in whole Europe is “amanita phalloides”. Its
color is yellow with brown or green. Its foot is white, as its “ring”. It has also
got a “volva”, something like a case where its foot is.
ring
volva