A growing number of firms are turning fungi roots into clothing and building material. 🍄
Business reporterFrom the popular Netflix documentary Fantastic Fungi, to the surge of medical trials exploring the use of a compound found in hallucinogenic speciesBut there's one part of fungi that businesses are now especially tapping into, and that's mycelium, the root structure of a mushroom.
Once the mycelium has grown over a number of weeks, Biohm harvests and dries it, and then compresses it into brick-like panels. "Mycelium-grown Reishi is an incredible material, and the first of its kind [leather replacement] that doesn't use plastic as a core ingredient," says Sophia Wang, MycoWorks co-founder.
Ms Wang says the cost of Reishi is currently comparable to luxury leather. However, she hopes that as the firm introduces production on a much larger scale, the price will fall. "These days the topic is much more popular. Companies are popping up everywhere including the US, UK, Italy, the Netherlands, Indonesia, South Korea, Estonia and Australia. The more media attention the topic gets the more people want to get into it commercially and found start-ups. The allure is the 'weirdness' of the concept, for want of a better term."is a series exploring how technological innovation is set to shape the new emerging economic landscape.
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