Did you know... that mushrooms are not plants?
They are sedentary, but unlike plants, they cannot feed on photosynthesis. Like animals, they obtain energy by chemically breaking down and metabolizing foreign biomass. This can be, for example, dead plant remains or symbioses between fungi and living plants.
They are not only a source of important active substances, which have also been valued in medicine for centuries, but are also gaining importance as raw material. an Bedeutung.
In addition, some of them have very funny names, such as Wirrling or woolly milkling.