DID MUSHROOMS NEED SUNLIGHT

Why don't mushrooms need sunlight to grow

Mushroom is a general term for several edible fungi. They are rich in nutrition and a variety of amino acids, taste delicious, known as "meat in vegetable", is one of the favorite food.

The mushroom is another strange plant. In terms of its appearance, some are straight and beautiful, some are ugly; Some are as big as a bathtub, some as small as a thumbtack. The taste is different, too. Some taste like chicken, others like pepper. And if you look at the way it grows, it's different. As the saying goes, "everything grows by the sun," but mushrooms like to grow and reproduce in dark places, and do not need the sun. What's going on here?

It turns out that the mushroom is a kind of aerobic saprophytic fungi, it has no chlorophyll, unlike ordinary green plants that rely on photosynthesis make the growth of organic material for their own needs, but by hyphae decompose absorbing medium of some organic matter and mineral salts to grow. Because mushrooms have this special physiological function and structure, they can grow without sunlight.

The growth of mushroom is closely related to the preparation of medium material. The raw material of artificial medium, commonly used after high temperature fermented dung, haystack, forage is generally dried straw, straw, manure with horse manure, cow dung, its ratio 6:4 or half as good. Cotton-seed husks are also used in some places as raw materials for culture media.