So first of all, yes, there are carnivorous mushrooms. The veils that conceal the gills as they develop, have broken away, and the gills have that beautiful, dark brown chocolate color and they've also started to develop a lot more flavor.įabrice Senger asks, "A carnivorous mushroom, how scary is that?" The cap has started to open, started to turn brown as the spores have matured.Īnd the Portobellos are the fully mature Agaricus bisporus, the cap has opened up, it become kind of flattened out. So the gills are gonna be just a pale pink and not particularly flavorful.Ĭremini mushrooms are harvested a little bit later on, they've started to turn brown, developed some pigmentation. The classic little, white Button mushroom with the closed cap is harvested very early in its life, before the cap has started to open, before the spores are mature. They're just harvested at different stages of the lifecycle. Well, the difference is really just a matter of age, because all of these types of commercial mushrooms are the same species, Agaricus bisporus. Shelia Crimmins asks, "What's the difference between Cremini, Button, and Portobello Mushrooms?" They don't end up germinating and forming a new fungus, but the fungus makes many, many spores in order to maximize its chances of reproducing successfully. This must work really well for spore dispersal. So a spore is a cell that's designed to be disseminated, to be distributed by wind or water or insects or some other means.Ī bracket fungus, like this, might produce a billion spores a day.Ī giant puff ball can produce literally trillions of spores and an awful lot of mushrooms have a shape like this, with a cap and a stalk, maybe gills underneath, maybe pores, maybe teeth, and that tells us that, this must be the right shape for a mushroom. The shapes of mushrooms that have evolved through natural selection have been optimized for spore dispersal. I'm trying to enjoy them, but their physique makes me uncomfortable."Ī mushroom has one function and that is to liberate spores. ![]() Okay, first up from nicolesimoneau3 who says, "Why do mushrooms have to look like that? I'm here to answer your questions from Twitter. ![]() I'm David Hibbett, professor of mycology. What's the difference between crimini, button and portobello mushrooms? What are the weirdest mushrooms? Why do "magic" mushrooms exist? How can you tell if they are poisonous or not? David answers all these questions and much more! Director: Justin Wolfson Director of Photography: Constantine Economides Editor: Richard Trammell Expert: David Hibbett Line Producer: Joe Buscemi Associate Producer: Paul Gulyas Production Manager: Eric Martinez Production Coordinator: Fernando Davila Senior Casting Producer: Nicole Ford Camera Operator: Cloud Audio: Michael Guggino Production Assistant: Ryan Coppola Post Production Supervisor: Alexa Deutsch Post Production Coordinator: Ian Bryant Supervising Editor: Doug Larsen Assistant Editor: Marisa DeMarini Additional Editor: Paul Tael Video Transcript Clark University mycologist David Hibbett answers the internet's burning questions about mushrooms.
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