How many types of mushrooms are there?
Beacham: About 150,000 have been identified, but there are probably millions. Does Georgia have a lot of wild mushrooms? This state is loaded with some of the best mushrooms in the world. In the wild, we don’t notice them unless we’re looking for them or standing on them. How do you cultivate mushrooms? I’m a passionate mushroom hound. It started as a hobby; I was sick and tired of not being able to get my favorite mushrooms. They grow in bags and the mushrooms come out the perforated holes – that’s called pinning. I can’t go to bed before checking on them. In the morning, I check to see how they did overnight. I get about 100 pounds of oysters a week – about eight or nine bushel baskets. Aren’t some mushrooms poisonous? You’ve gotta be really careful: There’s a lot of danger in mushrooms. Chanterelles look a lot like Jack o’ lantern mushrooms; one is delicious, one is deadly. You can’t be 99 percent sure. One mushroom can kill you dead as hell. I hear there’s a Mushroom Club of Georgi
