Ethnomycological study of wild edible and medicinal mushrooms in district Jammu, J&K (UT), India

Table 3 The social belief regarding collection of wild edible mushrooms (WEMs)

Attributes	Informants	Number	Mean number of WEM collected		ANOVA
Attributes	Informants	Number	Visits after lightening	Regular visits	F value	P value
Gender	Female	87	4.6	4.1	1.86	0.177^ns
	Male	105	3.5^a	2.8^b	5.71	0.019*
Age	Up to 50 years	93	3.3	3.2	0.08	0.781^ns
	> 50 years	99	4.5^a	3.3^b	5.37	0.023*
Education	Illiterate	61	5.5^a	4.0^b	15.99	< 0.001**
	Literate	131	3.3	2.9	2.72	0.101^ns

Fisher’s least significant difference (LSD) was applied as multiple-range test when analysis of variance (ANOVA) was found significant at P < 0.05
Ns non-significant
*^,**P < 0.05 and 0.001, respectively

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