Be sure before eating fungus

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August 7, 2013 - 12:00 AM

Are they mushrooms or toadstools that are cropping up from saturated ground and nurtured by warm, humid weather?
We ran a photo of one and identified it as a mushroom in Tuesday’s Register.
It’s a toadstool, said a reader kind enough to take time to call. Continuing, the caller said she always had been told the difference was toadstools looked — well — like toadstools and weren’t edible. Mushroom, on the other hand, may be eaten and come in many shapes and forms.
The only mushroom that most folks hereabouts are…

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