Table 8 General knowledge about mushrooms in the San Juan Sacatepéquez area according to the ethnomycological survey
From: Ethnomycological knowledge among Kaqchikel, indigenous Maya people of Guatemalan Highlands
Issue | Vendors | Cementos Progreso workers | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
N | %° | N | %° | |
Identity of mushrooms | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Vegetal | 4 | 29 | 12 | 43 |
Fungal | 7 | 50 | 12 | 43 |
Fruity | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Animal | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Do not know/no opinion | 3 | 21 | 2 | 7 |
Relationship of mushrooms with trees | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Yes | 14 | 100 | 26 | 93 |
No | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Mushroom production according to forest type | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Oak forest | 5 | 35 | 9 | 32 |
Pine forest | 4 | 29 | 4 | 14 |
Mixed forest | 4 | 29 | 13 | 47 |
Do not know/no opinion | 1 | 7 | 2 | 7 |
Substrate where more mushrooms are produced | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Forest floor | 12 | 86 | 27 | 96 |
Wood | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Cow dung | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Do not know/no opinion | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
Where mushrooms grow | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Each year in the same place | 13 | 93 | 21 | 75 |
Each year in a different place | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 |
Do not know/no opinion | 1 | 7 | 3 | 11 |
Same mushroom production 10 years ago | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
No | 12 | 86 | 25 | 89 |
Yes | 1 | 7 | 2 | 7 |
Do not know/no opinion | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
Season of growth of the Hongo de San Juan | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Just in June | 4 | 29 | 16 | 56 |
In winter | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 |
In other periods of the year | 5 | 35 | 3 | 11 |
June and September | 2 | 14 | 2 | 7 |
From June to October | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Rainy season no matter the month | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Do not know/no opinion | 3 | 22 | 1 | 4 |
Knowledge about medicinal mushrooms | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
No | 14 | 100 | 27 | 96 |
Do not know/no opinion | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Knowledge about the existence of hallucinogenic mushrooms in San Juan Sacatepéquez | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
No | 14 | 100 | 24 | 86 |
Do not know/no opinion | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 |
Use of hallucinogenic mushrooms in San Juan Sacatepéquez | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
No | 14 | 100 | 26 | 93 |
Do not know/no opinion | 0 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
Relationship between God and mushrooms | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Yes | 12 | 86 | 23 | 82 |
No | 1 | 7 | 5 | 18 |
Do not know/no opinion | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Mushroom knowledge transmitters | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Grandparents | 4 | 29 | 13 | 47 |
Mother | 5 | 35 | 7 | 24 |
Father | 1 | 7 | 4 | 14 |
Friends | 1 | 7 | 2 | 7 |
Cousins | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Do not know/no opinion | 3 | 22 | 1 | 4 |
Knowledge in relation to: | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Stories about mushrooms | 14 | 100 | 4 | 14 |
Mushrooms with names of animals | 5 | 35 | 4 | 14 |