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Some mushrooms change color when you press on their flesh or cut the stem or gills.  The colors range all the way from blue to yellow, red, and black. The cornflower bolete turns deep blue, while the yellow stainer turns chrome yellow, and a milk cap can bleed blue or red juice from a single […]

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Finding a mushroom that bleeds, oozes, or drips can be a little unnerving. Some look like they’re covered in drops of blood, and others like they’re leaking milk. There are mushrooms that drip amber goo down a tree trunk and mushrooms that have small dark tears along their gills.

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Finding the black, finger-like growths of dead man’s fingers (Xylaria polymorpha) can be a little unnerving. They emerge from rotting stumps and at the bases of dead trees, and the fruiting bodies look like swollen, charred fingers reaching out of the wood. The mushroom grows in tight clusters of three to six fingers, and the […]

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Among the smelliest mushrooms include ones that smell like rotting flesh, coal gas, maple syrup, apricot, curry, coconut, shrimp, and almond. The range of smells for mushrooms is vast!

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There are a ton of top edible species among the summer mushrooms, including chanterelles, black trumpets, lobster mushrooms, and puffballs.

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