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    TOXIC MUSHROOMS

    May 12, 2022 4 minutes
    WORDS SCOTT DUTFIELD

    Earth’s forests are littered with the weird and wonderful umbrellas of mushrooms – some edible and some deadly. Mushrooms are classified as the reproductive structures of some, but not all, species of fungi. Similarly to how fruits bear the seeds of some plants, mushrooms are filled with millions of spores, held in their gills. These spores ride the wind or hijack a lift on a passing animal and travel to their new home to begin another mushroom population.

    There are around 14,000 different mushroom species within the 3.8 million species of fungi on Earth. Of those thousands, around one per cent are

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