Post by: AngelOfThyNight on February 07, 2020, 02:19:25 AM
In 1864, Jules Verne's sci-fi novel "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" imagined explorers walking beneath a forest of 30-foot mushrooms "crowded together like the round roofs of an African city." Lewis Carol's "Alice in Wonderland" and H.G. Wells' "The First Men in the Moon" followed, employing towering fungal forests as literary allusions to Victorians' experimentations with opium.
Source: Your next house may be made out of mushrooms (http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_topstories/~3/25x1GrgHv0A/index.html)