“MUSHROOMS” by Desmond Kelly ‘the Star of eLanka’ Mushrooms have been used for thousands of years, both as a food, and for medicinal purposes.They are often classified as a vegetable or a herb, but they are actually “fungi”. While there are about 14000 mushroom species, only about 3000 are edible, about 700 have known medicinal properties & fewer than 1% are recognized as poisonous. ...