A mushroom is the fleshy, spore-bearingfruiting body of a fungus, typically produced above ground on soil oron its food source. The word “mushroom” can also be used for a widevariety of gilled fungi, with or without stems, and the term is usedeven more generally, to describe both the fleshy fruiting bodies ofsome Ascomycota and the woody or leathery fruiting bodies of someBasidiomycota, depending upon the context of the word.
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This is not a mushroom you want to mess around with
