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General Motors’ venture capital arm has invested in a California startup that’s making imitation leather from mushrooms

. The material is made by MycoWorks using the root-like structures of mushrooms, called mycelia. It could provide an alternative to both traditional leather made from animal skins, usually cattle, and artificial leather made from plastics. The auto industry is the largest user of leather other than for shoes, according to 2015 data from International Council of Tanners. MycoWorks grows these threadlike mycelia into flexible, leather-like sheets.

” It takes a number of weeks, rather than years, to grow a sheet of the Reishi material similar in size to roughly half a cowhide, Wang said. Reishi’s uniformity eliminates the need to dispose of material due to blemishes, as happens with leather made from animal hides, she said. Fine Mycelium is MycoWorks’ trademarked term for the basic material from which the imitation leather is made. It is the final leather-like material itself that is called Reishi.

 

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👆🏿Cool, no? Vegan Vegetarian DanielNewman

Soon your car will have that new mushroom smell

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🤣 they fingered trees to far now we can make leather from mushrooms?

What's the shelf life 3 weeks 🤔

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