International Journal of Medicinal Mushrooms

ISSN for PRINT: 1521-9437

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2003, Volume5

Issue 3

112 pages

DOI: 10.1615/InterJMedicMush.v5.i3

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Emmanuel Oluwadare Akpaja
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Benin, P.M.B. 1154, Benin City, Nigeria

Omoanghe S. Isikhuemhen
Mushroom Biology and Fungal Biotechnology Laboratory, North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27411, USA

John Aroye Okhuoya
Department of Botany, Faculty of Science, University of Benin, P.M.B. 1154, Benin City, Nigeria

This study revealed that the Igbo people, residing in the southeastern part of Nigeria, use mushrooms for food and medicine. On the average, each respondent consumes 8.64 ± 3.70 species of mushrooms. Over 95% of the respondents consume edible mushrooms because of taste, 86% use them as substitute for meat and fish, while 36.36% use some mushrooms for medicinal purposes. Pleurotus tuberregium, Termitomyces robustus, and Daldinia concentrica are used in ethnomedicine among the Igbos. The study also revealed that mushroom hunting and eventual sales are status and gender-related issues, being generally regarded as work for women and children.

DOI: 10.1615/InterJMedicMush.v5.i3.100 Download article, 8 pages

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