This PPT is all about Mushroom. Made By- Aryan Saxena Class- 8 Delhi Public School Kashipur

1. MUSHROOMS
Submitted To- Mrs Nisha Sinha
Submitted By- Intelligent Mushrooms –
Aryan Saxena, Harsh Dogra, Hitesh Rana,
Dilraj Singh Cheema, Manveer Singh

3. WHAT IS A MUSHROOM
• Mushrooms are not plants! Recently it has been
discovered that they are more closely related to
animals. But at one time, Fungi, including
mushrooms, were believed to be close relatives of
plants so much of their nomenclature (names for parts
of the mushroom) are close to the names used for
plant parts. It is the fruit (like an apple) of the
mushroom "body" and contain mushroom "seeds"
called spores. The body of the mushroom in called
mycelium and its individual parts are microscopic.

4. SIMPLY IT MEANS THAT!
 Mushrooms are fungi, and are
usually placed in a Kingdom of there
own apart from plants and animals.
Mushrooms contain no chlorophyll and
most are considered saprophytes. That
is, they obtain their nutrition from
metabolizing non living organic matter.
This means they break down and "eat"
dead plants, like your compost pile does

5. HOW MANY KINDS ARE THERE
?
There are approximately 1.5 million
species of Fungi in the world;
Of those, 2,327 are used for edible
or medicinal purposes

6. HOW BIG THEY ARE ?
 Mushrooms themselves can vary from anywhere
between 1 mm and 1 m!
 The largest known fungal organism is an Armillaria
gallica in Crystal Falls,
 Michigan. Called the “humongous fungus,” it is 1500
years old and weighs
 over 9,700 kg ( > 100 tons, and almost the mass of an
adult blue whale)

7. The How and Why of
Being Upright

8. Upright orientation allows spores to escape
vs.
Because of the
sticky sides
of the gills (the spore-producing
triangular
structures on the
underside of the cap,
spores cannot escape if the
mushroom is tilted…

9. Fungi Facts
Mushrooms are more similar to
animals than plants!
Some mushroom spores can sit dormant for 10
years and still grow!
Some of the largest mushroom colonies are
so large that they can be seen from airplanes
or even satellites!
Mushroom spores are made of chitin, one of the hardest natural
substances on Earth!