From: Ethnomycological knowledge among Kaqchikel, indigenous Maya people of Guatemalan Highlands
Issue | Vendors | Cementos Progreso workers | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
N | %° | N | %° | |
Use of mushrooms | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Food | 14 | 100 | 23 | 82 |
Do not know/no opinion | 0 | 0 | 5 | 18 |
Recipients of mushrooms | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Several people in the market | 5 | 35 | 13 | 47 |
Mushroom resale | 5 | 35 | 9 | 32 |
Gatherers near the village | 4 | 30 | 0 | 0 |
Does not sells mushrooms | – | – | 6 | 21 |
How to differentiate between edible mushrooms from inedible ones | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Color | 5 | 37 | 17 | 59 |
Cap with or without scales or warts | 2 | 14 | 4 | 14 |
Stem | 2 | 14 | 1 | 4 |
Ring | 2 | 14 | 0 | 0 |
Texture | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
Gills | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
Volva | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
Taste | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
Cuticle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Do not know/no opinion | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
Reasons to cut the foot to the mushrooms sold in the market | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Cleaning | 8 | 58 | 18 | 64 |
Interferes with the taste | 3 | 21 | 1 | 4 |
None of the above | 2 | 14 | 3 | 11 |
Leave “seeds” to grow new mushrooms | 1 | 7 | 6 | 21 |
Population that consumes more mushrooms | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Indigenous and ladinos | 11 | 79 | 14 | 50 |
Indigenous | 1 | 7 | 9 | 32 |
Ladinos | 0 | 0 | 4 | 14 |
Do not know/no opinion | 2 | 14 | 1 | 4 |
What you like most about mushrooms | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Taste | 11 | 79 | 23 | 82 |
Taste/texture | 1 | 7 | 1 | 4 |
Appearance | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Do not know/no opinion | 2 | 14 | 4 | 14 |
Difference between the Hongo de San Juan and the Hongo de San Pedro | 14 | 100 | 28 | 100 |
Color | 8 | 58 | 11 | 39 |
Taste | 3 | 21 | 10 | 35 |
Price | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11 |
Place of growth | 1 | 7 | 2 | 7 |
None of the above | 2 | 14 | 1 | 4 |
Do not know/no opinion | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 |