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Quorn is actually a mushroom.

• SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago
  Close but not quite - it's a fungus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_venenatum http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_venenatum ). Since fungi have been around for a very, very long time they have a lot of genetic variation - it's not that close to mushrooms, not even the same phylum as the common mushrooms ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus ).
  • SideburnsOfDoom 14y ago
    To be more specific, quorn is a mushroom in the same sense that a human being is an octopus - to pick two well-known animal species that are in different phyla.
  • Codhisattva 14y ago
    Ooops. Thanks for the correction. (That'll teach a techie to blubber about biology!)