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no true pits on the surface. The cap is also attached only at the tip, hanging like a thimble on the end of a pencil. Reference to a good field guide with pictures helps in distinguishing the bad ones from the good ones.

The morel season is short. Only a couple of weeks and they disappear, along with most of the other spring mushrooms. Then in the fall, there are a number of really choice ones, including boletes, chanterelles, oyster mushrooms and puffballs. Even if you don’t want to eat them, it’s worth your time to take notice of them.

What exactly are

mushrooms?

Mushrooms, toadstools, bracket fungi, jelly fungi, coral fungi, puffballs, earth stars, stinkhoms, etc. are all common names for the reproductive structures of filamentous fungi. The actual “body” of the fungus is an extensive network of microscopic filaments called a mycelium that lives in the soil or dead wood and breaks down

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