Mushrooms of the week
Mycology Basics
Random Fungi Facts
Mycology Club Lore
Foraging Tips
100
What mushroom is this?
What is Chanterelle?
100
What kingdom are mushrooms apart of?
What is Fungus Kingdom?
100
Mushrooms are more like ____ than plants.
Humans
100
What is our beautifully bearded treasure's name?
THE Gage Kile
100
If a mushroom has GILLS should you pick it or leave it?
Leave it!!!
200
What is the scientific name for "magic mushrooms"?
What is Psilocybe cubensis?
200
What is the underground white hyphae network that absorbs nutrients called?
What is mycelium?
200
Name of the day when Albert Hoffman accidentally consumed over 250 micrograms of LSD and had the first recorded acid trip?? (Double Points for name AND date)
Bicycle Day - 4/19
200
What was the theme of our first club mixer EVER?
Anything but a cup
200
You should ____ raw mushrooms.
Not eat / Cook
300
What mushroom "hatches" from an egg and oozes slime to attract flies as a form of spore distribution?
What is Devil's Fingers / Octopus stinkhorn?
300
What is the function of the mushroom?
Fruiting body / reproduction
300
What mushroom is currently under heavy research for its potential to treat Alzheimer's?
Lion's Mane
300
What is Jack's ICONIC party food? (This was in the kahoot, if you get this wrong get tf out)
Watermelon!
300
What is this under-cap formation called in the mushroom business?
Teeth!
400
During our spooky mushroom era, we talked about an orange jelly fungus that can be used for respiratory aid?
What is Witch's Butter?
400
How do spores grow into mycelium?
Two spores mate, opposite mycelia types fuse together.
400
Mushroom extracts/tinctures are being tested on ______ to protect from virus carrying mites.
Ganoderma lucidum a species of reishi mushroom is used to help HONEYBEES
400
What are the names of our glorious former President and Vice President?
Julia and Jack
400
When foraging you should use ____ to collect your mushrooms.
Baskets!!!
500
This mushroom of the week is consumed by people through drinking reindeer urine to experience psychedelic trips?
What is amanita muscaria / fly agaric?
500
The Fungi Kingdom is composed of 7 phyla. Name or give an example of at least 3.
Ascomycota- Yeast / Penicillium species (antibiotics)
Basidiomycota - Filamentous hyphae mushrooms
Zygomycota - Molds
Glomeromycota - Symbiotic mycorrhizal fungi
Chytridiomycota - Pathogenic fungus
Microsporidia - Parasitic
Neocallimastigomycota - Found in digestive tracts of herbivores
500
Your foot contains how many types of fungi?
200 types of fungi on YOUR foot. Heel (80 types), between toes (40), and beneath toenails (60).
500
Which exec member went down a hill in a shopping cart, hit a poll, destroyed the poll, flipped over and out of the front, and the destroyed his ankle?
Gage :)
500
Maitake is often confused with what mushroom?
Chicken of the woods