A Minireview on Mushroom: Emphasis on the Wild Mushroom of Jordan

Mushrooms are large and highly diverse group of organisms called fungi that are similar in many aspects to plants. Since mushroom lack the chlorophyll pigments, thus, mushroom cannot produce their own food, but, they obtain their food by breaking down dead organic matter (saprobes) or in some cases by attacking and living on or within other living plants (parasites). From taxonomic point of view, most mushroom species belong to Basidiomycetes and few species belong to Ascomycetes mushrooms. The number of mushroom species on earth is estimated to be 140,000 and only 14.000 species of them are known.