You can relax in different ways. For some it is reading a book or watching a long-awaited film, for others it is a picnic with noise and barbecue. Standing somewhat apart are people who prefer to spend time in nature in an interesting, if lucky, profitable way. Hunting for animals and/or birds, fishing, mushroom picking. Last view active pastime in the forest always has its fans. It's enough for someone to admire autumn forest, breathing fresh air, someone definitely needs to find the most big mushroom in the world, to surprise everyone, hang up your photo with a miracle of nature in your hands. , which both neophytes and experienced mushroom pickers, getting ready for a quiet hunt.
Giants of Russia
When talking about picking mushrooms, of course, most people mean definitely edible mushrooms that have a familiar shape, color and delicious smell, and not those varieties that frighten you just by their appearance, and you need to cook them with the care of a chef from Japan who conjures fugu fish
First of all, these are mushrooms whose names are familiar from childhood, and whose collection experience goes back centuries:
- Boletus. The most recently described case of finding a giant specimen, about which there was a short TV report on the Rossiya TV channel, occurred in 2011 in Omsk region. Alexey Korol, a mushroom picker with considerable experience, found a mushroom with a cap diameter of 36 cm. The height of the giant’s leg is 28 cm, weight is 2.4 kg. What was especially surprising and pleasing about the find was that it turned out not to be wormy.
- Mushroom, which many mushroom pickers consider the only one worthy of pickling. Mentions of preparation methods can be found even in monastery chronicles. By the way, in the West it is considered inedible. The mushroom is very dense, so even with its small size it is quite weighty. Unfortunately, there were no reliable facts about the record load. It is only known that the cap is 25 cm in diameter; almost a kilogram weight is not the limit for it.
- Ryzhik. The second most important mushroom for pickling, but it also has an excellent taste when fried. You can also salt it and bake it over a fire right in the forest. The cap is 20 cm, the weight is about 0.5 kg - the limit for an edible specimen, which no one has ever enjoyed before the mushroom picker.
- Oil can. Those who have at least once tasted the taste of buttered potatoes fried with onions, are happy to collect them in clean coniferous forests. This mushroom is not striking in size. Unfortunately, it is highly valued not only by people, but also by forest dwellers, from worms to squirrels. Therefore, you should not wait for record sizes, but send the boletus into the basket.
- The white mushroom or boletus is the dream of many, the king of Russian forests. The mushroom is very dense, with a rich (even dried) smell. There is information about a find in 1961 in forest near Moscow a porcini mushroom with a 60-centimeter cap that weighed about 11 kg, which is impressive. This is the biggest one to date White mushroom in the world, but nothing lasts forever, and new record waiting for its lucky owner.
Some facts:
- Fungi are living organisms, not lower plants, as previously thought. At the same time, they combine some characteristics of animals and plants.
- There are more than 100 thousand. various types, of which for lovers quiet hunt Macromycetes are of interest.
- These are cap mushrooms with massive fruiting bodies that are so nice to put in a basket. These also include puffballs and tinder mushrooms, which, as they say, are not for everyone. A separate type, the “macromycete” variety of mushrooms, as they like to mindlessly label the find in many photographs, does not exist.
- Of all the rest for lovers forest walks are of interest unless they are medicinal birch mushroom- chaga, which is easy to find; yeast, which was used to make dough for pies on the road; tea mushroom, giving a sour drink that perfectly quenches thirst after a quiet hunt.
- All cap mushrooms, which are of greatest interest to mushroom pickers, scientists divide them into two more groups: basidiomycetes and marsupials.
- For example, boletus, boletus, milk mushroom, oiler, honey fungus, saffron milk cap are basidial, and the famous truffle and mushrooms with unpleasant names: morel, string - are marsupial mushrooms.
Miracles on a global scale
News about foreign achievements in the search for record mushrooms is also interesting, although it often evokes mixed feelings. But first things first, immediately discarding the “information” with the obvious use of Photoshop about “macromycetes” found all over the world with multi-meter legs, caps, weighing hundreds of kilograms:
- Truffle. A very tasty mushroom, most valued by gourmets, weighing 7 kg was found in the south of Italy. A real record.
- Lingzhi or lacquered tinder fungus. A 7.5-kilogram specimen was found in China. It also grows in Russia - in warm climates. Black Sea coast Caucasus. Considering that this medicine traditional medicine, By appearance differs little from birch chaga, with nutritional value equal to zero, it is unlikely that he should be included among the contenders for victory.
- Champignon. A specimen weighing 14 kg was found in Italy.
- Raincoats of enormous size - from 0.5 to 1.72 (!) m in diameter, found from Russia, Great Britain to Canada. Since food taste value this bag of spores is very arbitrary, and, according to the Russian “table of ranks”, among edible mushrooms it is classified in the 4th, last category (little known, rarely collected), it is unlikely that these giants should be considered successful finds that shocked the world.
If we agree with the Guinness Book of Records, then the first place was taken by the Americans, who accidentally discovered something that had lived peacefully for 2500 years before. giant mycelium, which was slowly destroying a relict forest in Oregon on an area of 880 (!) hectares, with only small fruits a few centimeters in size on the surface.
Armed with the advanced achievements of American propaganda, they awarded it the title of “the largest mushroom in the world” and are now resting on their laurels, while a lot of sites trustingly copy the amazing, exciting story about this “macromycete”. It seems that with the same success the biggest mushroom can be considered what is located under Belovezhskaya Pushcha in Belarus, the Siberian or Far Eastern taiga. Then the scale of records will reach a new level, unprecedented in the United States.
Mushrooms - special shape life, combining the characteristics of plants and animals. Among them there are record holders for height and weight. Biologists believe that giant mushrooms are not an anomaly. Any mushroom can become a giant if it grows in favorable conditions. And oddly enough, most of the largest mushrooms are edible, which by some miracle did not end up in the mushroom picker’s basket and were not eaten by animals.
The list includes the most big mushrooms in the world, which became known to the media.
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Calvatia gigantea from England weight 2 kg
Unlocks ten large mushrooms Calvatia gigantea from England. The record holder was discovered by a young gardener, Terri Hodson-Walker, after the rainy season. The width of the giant's cap was approximately 46 centimeters, and he weighed 2 kilograms. After the discovery, the girl decided to submit an application to the Guinness Book of Records so that the macromycete would be officially recognized as the largest mushroom in the world. Scientific name discovered mushroom – Calvatia gigantea. This is an ordinary raincoat that can be found almost all over the world. This type can reach colossal sizes, but often becomes a victim of forest animals who are not averse to feasting on the raincoat.
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Boletus from Russia weight 2.4 kg
Another contender for the title of the largest mushroom in the world is boletus from Russia, discovered in the Tomsk region. Local mushroom picker Alexey Korol found a giant boletus mushroom in the forest near his village. The diameter of the giant mushroom cap was 36 centimeters, and the height of the stem was 28 cm. The weight of the record holder was 2 kilograms 400 grams! As the Rossiya TV channel noted, this is not some mutant alien from outer space, but common boletus, not even wormy.
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Lingzhi from China weight 7.5 kg
Found a huge lacquered tinder fungus, or as it is called in China - lingzhi(Ganoderma lucidum) - weighs 7.5 kg, and its diameter is 107 cm. The find was discovered in one of the provincial Chinese cities of Hezhou. This mushroom belongs to the genus Ganoderma, which has been used in Chinese medicine for over 2000 years. It is also called the “mushroom of immortality.” Lingzhi is believed to improve immunity due to active compounds, called polysaccharides, which can increase the activity of white blood cells. The impressive size and weight of the tinder fungus allow it to occupy one of the positions in the ranking of the most large mushrooms in the world.
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Raincoat from Russia weight 12 kg
The largest mushroom in Russia is raincoat, found by mushroom picker Vladislav Grabosinsky in the fall of 2011 in Perm region. The diameter of the giant's cap was 1 meter and 72 centimeters, and the height was about half a meter. The weight of the find exceeded 12 kilograms. Biologists do not consider this find to be rare. Raincoats grew in size and reached 20 kg in weight. Puffballs are eaten when they are still young. Since it was too late to eat the giant, Vladislav took him to the Department of Botany of Perm University for study. This edible miracle was included in the Guinness Book of Records.
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Champignon from Italy weight 14 kg
In Italy, a kind of record was also recorded. A huge champignon, weighing approximately 14 kilograms, was found by Francesco Quito, a resident of the province of Baria. Despite the fact that the mushroom was discovered near the village, Francesco could hardly carry it on his shoulder, so he had to use a car. The mushroom turned out to be unspoiled and edible. I had to call my neighbors to eat such a giant.
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Macromycete from China weight 15 kg
A giant giant was discovered in Yunnan Province, China. macromycete, weighing 15 kilograms. The mushroom not only turned out to be huge, but also had unusual shape. Outwardly, it resembled a hundred small mushroom caps growing on one stem! The diameter of the cap reached almost 1 meter. Scientists have not yet determined what species the eccentric fungal organism belongs to.
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Macrocybe Titans from USA weight 20 kg
If we talk about traditional macromycetes in the usual sense, then the leader in size can be called Macrocybe Titans, which grows in the Caribbean and the United States. In one of the southern Mexican states in 2007, a specimen was found whose mass was 20 kg and height - about 70 cm. However, this find is not the only one. In 2005, in the United States, Mexican biologist and mushroom specialist Rene Andrade came across the same mushroom, which also grew on a coffee plantation, and its weight was as much as 28 kilograms. Such big sizes make this macromycete the object of close attention of the scientific community.
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Macromycete from Canada weight 26 kg
Canadian macromycetes can also compete in size. Canadian resident Christian Therrien discovered a raincoat weighing 26 kilograms. A man discovered a mushroom while walking with his son in the forest. The Canadians were amazed by their discovery and admitted that they had never seen such large raincoats in their lives. They took the mushroom home and had a photo shoot with it.
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Fomitiporia ellipsoidea from China weight 500 kg
Another mushroom, found and studied by Chinese mycologists, grew 10.85 meters in height with a cap width of 82-88 cm. Scientists believe that this outstanding representative mushroom kingdom has been growing for at least 20 years. The giant tinder fungus with the world's largest fruiting body was found on Hainan Island in 2010, and has now been studied and classified. The brown monster turned out to be perennial tree mushroom- representative of the species Fomitiporia ellipsoidea. One of the authors of the discovery, Yu Cheng Dai, from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, says that he and his colleagues first found solid specimens of the same mushroom in Fujian province back in 2008. But still, those macromycetes were not as large as the giant from Hainan. Interestingly, the authors of the study did not deliberately look for the record holder, but simply studied the diversity of tree fungi in the forests of the island. “None of us ever imagined that a mushroom could grow so huge,” says Professor Dai. “We didn’t recognize him right away in the forest because he was too big.” Biologists estimated the volume of this mushroom at 409-525 thousand cm3, and its weight at approximately 500 kilograms. Discovered by scientists, F. ellipsoidea grows underground, so it for a long time remained unnoticed and was able to grow to such an impressive size.
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Armillaria ostoyae from the USA, weight more than 600 kg
The first place in the ranking is occupied by the largest mushroom in the world, which mycologists discovered in the relict forests of the USA. It is considered the largest living creature on the planet. This giant belongs to the Armillaria family, whose representatives have been known for their size for quite some time. Most of This living organism was underground; only small mushrooms could be clearly seen on the surface. The name of these macromycetes is Armillaria ostoyae or otherwise they are called honey mushrooms. One such honey fungus fits easily in the hand and is not too noticeable. But its mycelium, which is a single organism, occupied national park Oregon 880 hectares of area! Its tentacles are located underground and entangle an area equal in size to 1,665 football fields. The mycelium grew throughout the Oregon forests for about 2,500 years, destroying root systems trees on its way. That is why this macromycete is considered the largest on the planet.
Remember the gnome who sat on a fly agaric hat. He so often becomes the hero of fairy tales in some Western countries. His decorative sculptures adorn many parks and attractions around the world.
Mushrooms are very interesting for housewives who create culinary masterpieces. They are of particular interest to a certain category of young people who are addicted to hallucinogens.
Yes, for many it is not easy to pass by even just an image of an unusual specimen of a giant mushroom found by someone.
And when you go to the forest to pick mushrooms, you hope that you too will come across such an unusual find, a really huge mushroom, even a giant. But usually you pick the most common boletuses, boletus, milk mushrooms, trumpet mushrooms and others forest beauties. And some people are much luckier. And then the find becomes the subject of active discussion for a long time and gives hope to subsequent mushroom pickers that such luck awaits them too.
By the way, giant mushrooms are not an anomaly, as biologists believe, and most of them are edible. And they find them in the most different parts Sveta.
Armillaria ostoyae (honey mushroom)
It was found in the relict forests of the United States. He is classified as largest creatures living on the planet. The largest part of it settled underground, leaving at the top only small mushrooms, macromycetes, honey mushrooms, any of which could easily fit even in your hand. But its mycelium is a single organism and is conveniently located on 880 hectares in the Oregon National Park. This is a real monster.
It grew for about two and a half thousand years, destroying tree roots along the way, and has now reached a weight of more than 600 kilograms. But hardly anyone can make soup from it. To the general public one of these giants was first reported in 1992 by the New York Times.
This giant tinder fungus, almost eleven meters high and with a cap width of 82-88 centimeters, was found in China. Similar outstanding representatives of the mushroom kingdom have been found here more than once since 2007. But a half-ton giant like this had never been seen before 2010. Yes, and it was discovered by chance during a study of tree mushrooms in the forests of Hainan Island, because for about 20 years it grew underground and remained unnoticed for a long time.
During a routine walk along forest paths, Canadian residents caught the eye of this 26-kilogram handsome man, who also became a fashion model.
It was discovered in 2007 in Mexico among coffee trees a specimen weighing 20 kilograms and almost 70 centimeters tall. And two years earlier, a similar giant weighing only 28 kilograms was found on a coffee plantation in the USA. They are also called giant rows and ten-kilogram specimens no longer surprise anyone.
Macromycete from China
This giant, weighing 15 kilograms, was also of an unusual shape, as if on its single leg there were a hundred small mushroom caps, up to a meter in diameter. The species of this fungal organism, so eccentric, has not yet been determined.
A lucky mushroom picker from Italy carried this giant, weighing 14 kilograms, on his shoulder with great difficulty. If not for the car, it is unknown how he would have gotten home. Doubly lucky. The fungus even turned out to be edible, and in order to eat it, we had to call our neighbors for help.
Was found in the Perm region. Half-meter handsome man, hat in 1.72 meters diameter He weighed more than 12 kilograms, but they say that they met even more, almost 20 kilograms. Of course, the mushroom is edible, but it has served science because it is no longer young and is not as tasty as those that are much younger. By the way, this is the largest mushroom found in Russia. And it is absolutely certain that in the previous mushroom season nothing grew in this place. And in 2011, this giant grew among its fellow raincoats, which were only slightly inferior to it in size.
Porcini
Once "Moscow Radio" reported in live about a completely extraordinary find that can amaze the imagination and arouse the envy of any mushroom picker, even the most experienced one. This delicious miracle weighed almost eleven kilograms, and the diameter of its cap reached almost 60 centimeters. It is a pity that there is no information about the place of discovery, only the year 1961 is known. But one thing is clear for sure. For a mushroom picker, such a find is true happiness. About nutritional beneficial properties boletus is known to everyone, here it will leave behind any edible mushroom that is known to man. And that makes such a find even more valuable.
This is what they call lacquered polypores in China, a huge specimen of which weighing seven and a half kilograms and with a diameter of more than a meter was discovered in Hezhou. A real find for Chinese medicine. It was not in vain that it received the name “mushroom of immortality” for its remarkable ability to enhance immunity and has been actively used for more than two thousand years.
This find in southern Italy can be considered the most expensive mushroom. If the owner had sold this unique seven-kilogram beauty, he would have earned a lot, because there is no more expensive than mushrooms than truffles. But the family enjoyed the fried delicacy.
In certain areas of the country searches white truffle, the rarest and most coveted food ingredient in the world, is handled by dogs specially trained for it and only three last month of the year. And from time to time there are giants weighing up to two kilograms, most often sold at auctions and tens of thousands of dollars are paid for them.
He was found in the Tomsk region. A 28 cm leg held a giant's hat 36 centimeters in diameter. And he weighed 2.4 kilograms. And given his parameters, he wasn’t even wormy.
He grew up in the garden, where his owner discovered him when the rainy season ended. Handsome, weighing just over two kilograms and with a hat reaching 46 centimeters in diameter. In general, just touching such a mushroom is enough for it to break and stop growing.
And yet, it is quite rare to come across mushrooms of truly impressive size. And then the lucky one will notify the world about such luck.
Mushrooms are the wealth that nature itself gives us. If used to be mushrooms belonged only to plants, now they contain both signs of plants and animals. Everyone dreams of finding the largest white mushroom avid mushroom picker. Eat different types porcini mushrooms. There are also some of them that cannot be eaten.
Features
So by what signs can you determine that you have found a porcini mushroom? Let's start with the hat. She's pillow-shaped, almost white. It is up to approximately 20 cm in diameter. After rain, it will feel slimy to the touch and slightly stick to your hands. The hymenophore will be tubular. The tubes are located very tightly, so when pressed they can turn blue.
The porcini mushroom is also called the king of all mushrooms. First of all, because of its taste and size. The porcini mushroom has another name - boletus, or it is also called cow mushroom. So why is it called white? The answer is simple. Whether you cut it, dry it, or cook it. It will not change its color. All other mushrooms may turn brown or even turn black. It is valued for its unique nutrients.
Karelian miracle
In 2014, the Davydov couple met a real giant. In the Karelian forest they found a white mushroom of incredible size. According to mushroom pickers, it was already slightly damaged by insects, but even in this form it looked very impressive.
Dangerous white mushroom
Of enough great variety There is one porcini mushroom that should never be consumed. It is called the “satanic” porcini mushroom. These are extremely dangerous boletuses. The diameter of the cap sometimes reaches up to 30 cm. If you cut it, you will see that it may turn slightly blue. They have, especially old mushrooms, an extremely unpleasant odor.
It may resemble rotten onions or smell like carrion. But in some countries, for example in the Czech Republic and France, it is considered conditionally edible. You can cook it, but first it is soaked and boiled for a very long time (10 hours). After prolonged processing, it loses its taste qualities and becomes inedible.
White mushroom from the Suzdal forest
Autumn is considered the most mushroom time. But you can collect them not only in autumn. Mushrooms such as porcini mushrooms, and many others, begin to appear at the beginning of June. But this is all approximate, it all depends on what the weather will be like.
The most good time for going to the forest to pick mushrooms – this is 5 days after the rain. During this time, the mushroom should grow. If this summer time, and it will be very hot outside, then better mushrooms look under the trees. This is where they will hide. Porcini mushrooms love a lot of moisture. In drought it is very difficult to find them.
A resident of Vladimir managed to find a specimen weighing 2 kg. According to the happy owner of this miracle, the porcini mushroom was knee-high and the diameter of the cap was about 30 cm.
But not only do porcini mushrooms like rain, but also that the soil temperature is between 15-18 degrees. All mushrooms, as well as white mushrooms, should be looked for in the forest. If you see an anthill or fern, then this is a clear sign that there are porcini mushrooms somewhere nearby. They also grow in spruce and pine forests. The biggest mushrooms grow there. If you find one, then under no circumstances tear it out. Take a knife and cut. In the future, new mushrooms will grow on the mycelium.
A gift from the Polish forest
A resident of the Polish town of Bydgoszcz was incredibly lucky; a man found a white mushroom weighing 3 kg. The diameter of this handsome man's hat is about 40 cm. This happened in 2013. What is further fate One can only guess about the Polish record holder. The mushroom picker himself stated in an interview with a local newspaper that he plans to freeze his find and prepare a special Christmas dish from it.
Record breakers
Giant mushrooms can be quite edible. One of these was a white mushroom found in the Moscow region. Its size will surely cause envy among experienced mushroom pickers. Its weight reached 11 kg, and the diameter of its cap was 58 cm. The find became known in 1961. This was reported live on the radio. Unfortunately, the exact location of its discovery is not known, and it is almost impossible to find a photograph on the Internet.
Lovers of “silent hunting” who find such giant mushrooms do not understand how valuable they are. They simply eat their find. If you find such a mushroom, it is better to give it for research; it is clear that most likely no one will return it to you, and you will not taste it again. But you can go down in history as the person who found the largest white mushroom in the world.
Today, on the Internet, many mushroom pickers post their videos and photographs of large and small, beautiful and slightly ugly mushrooms they have found. This is a representative of the Carpathian forest, which was found in 2015. The exact weight of the giant is unknown, but it is assumed that it is in no way inferior to its Polish competitor.
There are many very interesting and entertaining things about mushrooms. For example, in Japan, biologists made an amazing statement that mushrooms can think and remember, and the mycelium, due to its uniqueness, is called the underground “Internet”.
The most interesting thing is that the mycelium itself grows endlessly, sometimes reaching of enormous size. 10 years ago, a mushroom network was found in one of the US states; it stretched underground over almost 900 hectares, which is equal to approximately 1800 football fields. Knowing that the mycelium is the vegetative body of a fungus, we can say that the discovery is the largest mushroom in the whole world.
Its weight is more than 20 kilograms, and its height is about 75 centimeters...
Scientists say that this is macrocybe titans and this specimen is one of the largest edible mushrooms that have ever been found on our planet...
However, it does not reach the record: in 1985 in American state Wisconsin found a galvatia gigantea mushroom weighing 140 kilograms and spanning almost two meters. This giant was included in the Guinness Book of Records.
The unusual find has already been taken to a special laboratory. Usually in such cases, giant mushrooms are dried and research is carried out to determine their chemical composition...
But this is the largest of the edible mushrooms, and here is an example of truly giants!
So, the top 10 giant mushrooms.
10. Calvatia gigantea from England. Weight 2 kg
Discovers ten large mushrooms Calvatia gigantea from England. The record holder was discovered by a young gardener, Terri Hodson-Walker, after the rainy season. The width of the giant's cap was approximately 46 centimeters, and he weighed 2 kilograms. After the discovery, the girl decided to submit an application to the Guinness Book of Records so that the macromycete would be officially recognized as the largest mushroom in the world. The scientific name of the discovered mushroom is Calvatia gigantea. This is an ordinary raincoat that can be found almost all over the world. This species can reach colossal sizes, but often becomes a victim of forest animals that are not averse to feasting on the raincoat.
9. Boletus from Russia. Weight 2.4 kg
Another contender for the title of the largest mushroom in the world is the boletus from Russia, discovered in the Tomsk region. Local mushroom picker Alexey Korol found a giant boletus mushroom in the forest near his village. The diameter of the giant mushroom cap was 36 centimeters, and the height of the stem was 28 cm. The weight of the record holder was 2 kilograms 400 grams! As the Rossiya TV channel noted, this is not some kind of alien - a mutant from outer space, but an ordinary boletus, not even wormy.
8. Lingzhi from China. Weight 7.5 kg
The found huge lacquered tinder fungus, or as it is called in China - lingzhi (Ganoderma lucidum) - weighs 7.5 kg and its diameter is 107 cm. The find was discovered in one of the provincial Chinese cities of Hezhou. This mushroom belongs to the genus Ganoderma, which has been used in Chinese medicine for over 2000 years. It is also called the “mushroom of immortality.” Lingzhi is believed to boost immunity through active compounds called polysaccharides, which can increase the activity of white blood cells. The impressive size and weight of the tinder fungus allow it to occupy one of the rankings of the largest mushrooms in the world.
7. Raincoat from Russia. Weight 12 kg
The largest mushroom in Russia is the raincoat, found by mushroom picker Vladislav Grabosinsky in the fall of 2011 in the Perm region. The diameter of the giant's cap was 1 meter and 72 centimeters, and the height was about half a meter. The weight of the find exceeded 12 kilograms. Biologists do not consider this find to be rare. Raincoats grew in size and reached 20 kg in weight. Puffballs are eaten when they are still young. Since it was too late to eat the giant, Vladislav took him to the Department of Botany of Perm University for study. This edible miracle was included in the Guinness Book of Records.
6. Champignon from Italy. Weight 14 kg
In Italy, a kind of record was also recorded. A huge champignon, weighing approximately 14 kilograms, was found by Francesco Quito, a resident of the province of Baria. Despite the fact that the mushroom was discovered near the village, Francesco could hardly carry it on his shoulder, so he had to use a car. The mushroom turned out to be unspoiled and edible. I had to call my neighbors to eat such a giant.
5. Macromycete from China. Weight 15 kg
A giant macromycete weighing 15 kilograms was discovered in the Chinese province of Yunnan. The mushroom not only turned out to be huge, but also had an unusual shape. Outwardly, it resembled a hundred small mushroom caps growing on one stem! The diameter of the cap reached almost 1 meter. Scientists have not yet determined what species the eccentric fungal organism belongs to.
4. Macrocybe Titans from the USA. Weight 20 kg
If we talk about traditional macromycetes in the usual sense, then the leader in size can be called Macrocybe Titans, which grows in the Caribbean countries and the USA. In one of the southern Mexican states in 2007, a specimen was found whose mass was 20 kg and height - about 70 cm. However, this find is not the only one. In 2005, in the United States, Mexican biologist and mushroom specialist Rene Andrade came across the same mushroom, which also grew on a coffee plantation, and its weight was as much as 28 kilograms. Such large sizes make this macromycete the object of close attention of the scientific community.
3. Macromycete from Canada. Weight 26 kg
Canadian macromycetes can also compete in size. Canadian resident Christian Therrien discovered a raincoat weighing 26 kilograms. A man discovered a mushroom while walking with his son in the forest. The Canadians were amazed by their discovery and admitted that they had never seen such large raincoats in their lives. They took the mushroom home and had a photo shoot with it.
2. Fomitiporia ellipsoidea from China. Weight 500 kg
Another mushroom, found and studied by Chinese mycologists, grew 10.85 meters in height with a cap width of 82-88 cm. Scientists believe that this outstanding representative of the mushroom kingdom has been growing for at least 20 years. The giant tinder fungus with the world's largest fruiting body was found on Hainan Island in 2010, and has now been studied and classified. The brown monster turned out to be a perennial tree fungus - a representative of the species Fomitiporia ellipsoidea. One of the authors of the discovery, Yu Cheng Dai, from the Institute of Applied Ecology (IAE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, says that he and his colleagues first found solid specimens of the same mushroom in Fujian province back in 2008. But still, those macromycetes were not as large as the giant from Hainan. Interestingly, the authors of the study did not deliberately look for the record holder, but simply studied the diversity of tree fungi in the forests of the island. “None of us ever imagined that a mushroom could grow so huge,” says Professor Dai. “We didn’t recognize him right away in the forest because he was too big.” Biologists estimated the volume of this mushroom at 409-525 thousand cm3, and its weight at approximately 500 kilograms. Discovered by scientists, F. ellipsoidea grows underground, so it went unnoticed for a long time and was able to grow to such an impressive size.
1. Armillaria ostoyae from the USA. Weight more than 600 kg
The first line of the ranking is occupied by the largest mushroom in the world, which mycologists ( Mycology(from ancient Greek μύκης - mushroom) - a branch of biology, the science of mushrooms.) were discovered in relict forests of the USA. It is considered the largest living creature on the planet. This giant belongs to the Armillaria family, whose representatives have been known for their size for quite some time. Most of this living organism was underground; only small mushrooms could be clearly seen on the surface. The name of these macromycetes is Armillaria ostoyae or otherwise they are called honey mushrooms. One such honey fungus fits easily in the hand and is not too noticeable. But its mycelium, which is a single organism, occupied 880 hectares of area in the Oregon National Park! Its tentacles are located underground and entangle an area equal in size to 1,665 football fields. The mycelium has been growing throughout Oregon forests for about 2,500 years, destroying the root systems of trees in its path. That is why this macromycete is considered the largest on the planet.
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