The history of mushrooms started 460 million years ago. They were edible and they called it agaricus bisporus hence the mushroom. The scientist, Steve Bonneville was the first to find the mushroom in northeast Brazil. Steve was born on June 19, 1951, and he discovered that he was on a new walking path. 

 He stumbled upon the mushroom fossil and found that the first mushroom was 460 million years old. A group of researchers led by Professor Bonneville, from the Biogeochemistry and Earth System Modelling research unit at the Université libre de Bruxelles, discovered a new mushroom fossil—the oldest to ever be identified from its molecular composition. 

But did you know that there are 80 different glowing mushrooms? People in the old days used mushrooms for food and medicine for sick people and they also used for drugs like medicine for Medicinal Mushrooms (PDQ®) – National Cancer Institute Medicinal mushrooms have been used for hundreds of years, mainly in Asian countries, for treatment of infections. More recently, they have also been used in the treatment of pulmonary diseases and cancer.  Long known as the mushroom of immortality, Ganoderma lucidum, also known as ling zhi or reishi, is one of the most widely used medicinal mushrooms in the world today. Mushrooms are fungi and grow differently than fruits and vegetables. Mushrooms begin life as fungi. Mushrooms have been here for years and years and they are still used to this day for food and medicine and way more. all these scientists a still finding a lot more facts about mushrooms and stuff

But the reason why I like mushrooms is all the interesting facts, the different colors of mushrooms, their weird shapes and all the cool stuff people used them for and all the facts but the most interesting thing is about them the real reason I love mushrooms is that when I was younger I was always curious about mushrooms and all the cool colors and shapes, sizes and all the interesting facts about them like did you know. Fungi are one of the most diverse organisms on Earth and contribute to many aspects of life as we know it. They’re the most populous kingdom on the planet – an estimated 3.8million fungi exist worldwide – and yet, more than 90% of them are currently unknown to science. 

You might be surprised to learn, that the mushroom kingdom can be quite animalistic, too: they breathe like us, and some are known to even eat flesh! One of the largest fungi in the whole world is the biggest living organism on the planet, a fungus known as the “honey mushroom”.10 But, despite its rather sweet-sounding name, it kills trees, feeding off both live and dead wood for nutrients.