Many of mushrooms species from the forest area of Bucegi Mountains are consumed by the native population without thinking about the heavy metals uptake in the human body. From all the edible species we choose eight mushrooms, part of them considered edible and part with uncertain edibility. Heavy metals concentration in the fruiting body of mushrooms are different from one species to another an...

For centuries, macrofungi have been used as food and medicine in different parts of the world. This is mainly attributed to their nutritional value as a potential source of carbohydrates, proteins, amino acids, and minerals. In addition, they also include many bioactive metabolites which make mushrooms and truffles common components in folk medicine, especially in Africa, the Middle East, China...

BACKGROUND Majority of the people in rural areas depend on traditional fungi-based medicines to combat different illnesses. This ethnomycological survey was undertaken to document the traditional knowledge of mushrooms among the communities in the Kilum-Ijim mountain forest reserve. Although macrofungi are exploited for food and medicine, their ethnomycological knowledge has not been documented...

This paper was carried out on two secotioid macrofungi taxa within the order Agarigales. One of them, Chlorophyllum lusitanicum G. Moreno, Muñ.-Moh., Manjón, Carlavilla & Altés is reported as new record for Turkish and Asian mycobiota. A locality given second one, agaricoides (Czern.) Vellinga, which also a rare taxon in Turkey. described briefly, localities, voucher numbers are provided to...