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On Earth, there are about two million species of mushrooms, and these representatives of the biological life of our planet are not to plants (no chlorophyll), nor to animals (no stomach). In its essentially all mushrooms are predators. But, at the same time, mushrooms possess collective mind.
The most expensive is considered to be the most expensive mushroom – truffle, the price of a kilogram this “mushroom gold” reaches three thousand dollars, because finding him is a whole problem. This unique and delicious of all mushroom lives underground. There are many truffle hunters in the world, they dogs and even pigs are adapted for these purposes (the latter, They say that dogs are better at this task).
There is a plasmodium mushroom that can “walk”. Not fast, just one centimeter per hour, but – it moves! For a month, plasmodium can completely change the area of their habitat – real traveler.
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The largest mycelium found in the United States (Oregon), she occupies nine hundred hectares and weighs more than one hundred tons.
Mushrooms are distinguished by their survivability, for example, in 2002, scientists found them in the reactor of the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant. Radiation even “liked” the mushrooms, they existed and bred here quite freely. Mushrooms can live in space, under tremendous pressure and not even afraid of contact with sulfuric acid.
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