Mushrooms (what do they do?)

[beagle]

I find mushrooms very weird. They look like little houses, but you can eat them!
I don't understand mushrooms. They taste terrible and grow on the ground, but people still eat them! It's bizarre!
If anyone has any info on mushrooms, please post it here.

[T3hR34p3r]

Where I'm from you stay the fuck away from mushrooms. Superstition states that if you fall asleep in a circle of mushrooms you'll be dragged to hell by the Sidhe.

EDIT: Also, beagle, seriously. Give Bruce Lee credit for that quote, it wasn't you.

[beagle]

I know I didn't make up the quote, but I'll change it anyway. Might as well.

[JimmyUK]

Mushrooms are a Halosagenic (Don't know if i've spelt it right) They make you see things that aint there, Crazy drug, ive heard stories that put me off ever trying one

[tomber]

There are a lot of odd things in nature, I would consider mushrooms not so odd when comparing them to other things, like carnivorous plants.

[BloodKnight9923]

Mushrooms are a Halosagenic (Don't know if i've spelt it right) They make you see things that aint there, Crazy drug, ive heard stories that put me off ever trying one

(Hallucinogenic, it was bugging me.)

Mushrooms as a whole are not hallucinogenic, most are just fairly common fungi growing in a nutrient rich areas breaking down all available nutrients via a mycelium network. Mycelium is made up of hyphae, and is the core of the fungus. As the mycelium spreads through soils, or tissues, the fungus will grow a mushroom. This is the fruit of the fungus designed to produce spores, that will grow into a new mycelium network elsewhere. Mushrooms have individual ways of dispersing their spores, these can be shown with spore patterns. There are however some extremely toxic mushrooms, this is because of metabolic reactions occurring in the mycelium pathways.

Take care not to randomly eat mushrooms found in the forest, or various other places, unless of course you were bored enough that you were okay with being dragged to a conference about mushrooms and know how to identify them.

(I was reeeeeealllly bored.)

[beast9]

There are a lot of odd things in nature, I would consider mushrooms not so odd when comparing them to other things, like carnivorous plants.

Carnivorous fungi are even cooler.

I used to hate mushrooms but since I moved out of home I now eat any food, and they're not so bad.

[bware1986]

mushrooms are bad ass. the caps give you a hallucinogenic high. The stems give you a body high. I prefer the stems. I have this recipe for peanut butter cups and you add the stems in and its the best thing in the world.

[ScrAm]

Haha, mushroom stems and peanut butter cups.
Sounds awesome.

[sync350]

shroomsss
hehe

Good shit =]