DIVERSITY AND ECONOMIC VALUE OF MEDICINAL MUSHROOM OF CHATTISHGARH
India has a very rich assemblage of traditional healing systems. Traditional aboriginals knew the medicinal value of edible and wild mushrooms. In India mushroom are boon for progress in the field of food and medicine and in developing countries generating employment. Mushroom in twentieth century are well known to people, mushrooms and toadstools belong to the kingdom fungi are nutritive, low calorie food with good quality proteins, vitamins, minerals and an important source of drugs source of potent new pharmaceutical products. The immense socio cultural diversity makes it an ideal storehouse of traditional medicinal knowledge. The only safe way to distinguish between edible and poisonous species is to learn to identify them accurately. The aim of the present study was brings into light the species diversity of fungal flora as well as socio economic value as non edible, edible and mushroom medicines in different agro climatic zones of Bilaspur Raipur India.