I love mushrooms, especially on pizza . They are a good substitute for meat too.
Yes even though they are technically a fungus I really like them too.
I wouldn't hunt for them in the wild because some of them are poisonous. I usually just buy them at the stores.
Yes to be able to identify them in the wild, you have have to have a basic understanding of their macroscopic structure.
There seems to be a lot of different types in the stores now. I just stick with the button mushrooms mostly.
A mushroom basically described a variety of gilled fungi that may or may not have stems.
I think most of the mushroom is underground and in decaying wood or tree roots.
The gills of the mushroom actually produce tiny spores that help the fungus spread about.