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If you find a mushroom with a stem covered in tiny dark bumps, as if it rolled through ground pepper, it is almost always a scaber stalk bolete (Leccinum sp.). Those bumps are called scabers (hence the common name), and no other bolete genus has the same rough, speckled look covering the entirety of the […]

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Coral mushrooms look like something that belongs in a tide pool. The fruiting body branches upward in dense clusters of fingers and forks, like the sea coral it is named for. These corals range in color from bone white to butter yellow to bright red.

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You don’t always have to go out to the forest to find a mushroom; there are tons of urban mushrooms. Mushrooms grow in many places, including mowed lawns, wood chip paths, a mulched flower bed, a potted houseplant, on trees along streets, and in public parks. Many types of mushrooms can grow within a short walk of the front door, and some of them are even edible, too.

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Plums and custard (Tricholomopsis rutilans) sounds like an edible mushroom, but unfortunately it is not. It is way too bitter to be enjoyable. It is a beautiful mushroom, though, and a lot of fun to see. The cap is bright yellow and covered in a dense coat of tiny purple-red scales, and the gills underneath […]

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A bunch of fungi species grow in some very unusual places. There are mushrooms that grow in horse dung, burned ground, the caps of other mushrooms, buried pine cones, and dead insects.

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