Mushrooms in a petri bowl shows it amazing mycelium
If you cultivate a mushroom in a petri bowl on agar, its actual “shape” becomes visible. The essential part of a mushroom, the Mycel, is usually hidden from our eye. What we perceive as a “mushroom” is only its transient fruit body.
The mushroom's main body is the mycelium, a network of thread-like structures called hyphae, which live underground or within the substrate (like wood or soil). The mycelium is the organism's true form and is typically hidden from view.
When you grow mycelium on an agar plate in a petri dish, its network becomes visible as it spreads across the medium. What we commonly recognize as a "mushroom" is actually just the fruiting body, which the mycelium produces to release spores for reproduction. This fruit body is temporary and only appears when conditions are right, while the mycelium can persist for years.
The Kaxinawa Tribe (Huni Kuin)
The Kaxinawá (Huni Kuin) people are the original inhabitants of Brazil and Peru. Their cities lie along the Purus and Curanja rivers in Peru and the Tarauacá, Jordão, Breu, Muru, Envira, Humaitã an...
Chilcuague - Aztec Gold Root
Chilcuague, also known as Heliopsis longipes or "Aztec Gold Root," is a medicinal plant native to central Mexico, particularly the Sierra Gorda region. Its root has been traditionally used for its ...
Ceremonial Cacao – The Elixir That Opens the Heart
Ceremonial cacao is much more than a hot drink. It is a sacred gift from the Earth, used for centuries in spiritual practices and healing rituals by indigenous cultures of South and Central America...
The Shawãdawa (Arara) tribe
‘Shawa’ means the red parrot Ara and ‘dawa’ means family. Around 1940 the tribe was thought to have died out. In the 1970s, the government tried hard to reach out to them because a highway was bein...
