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The Shroom Hunt series will acquaint you with some of the most common mushrooms found in northern Minnesota. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to ID the mushroom to genus using the photos and text provided.
In many cases you might find the actual mushrooms along this trail. If you happen to find morels, please PM me.
Photo: Noah Siegel
This bright red mushroom fruits in the fall and is usually associated with pines. It is quite brittle and shatters easily, While many mushrooms in this series are edible, this one is definitely not; it is known to cause gastrointestinal distress due to its emetic properties.
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