ushrooms have been used in different ways, e.g. as tinder, medicine, aphrodisiacs or as a medium to get in contact with supernatural powers, since the very beginning of human history.The use of mushrooms as a source of food is probably more recent.Remnants of puffballs (Lycoperdon), still used in folk medicine, have been found in the 100,000 yearold archaeological site of Salzgitter-Levenstedt...