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Northumberland's Kielder Water and Forest Park offers water sports, mountain biking and running  Louise Cahill visited, though, for a half-day of wild food foraging with foraging expert and chef Linus Morton She learns from this bushcrafter that to eat mushrooms you find you must be certain on identification Towards the end of the foray, there's sheer joy as Linus spots Porcini, also known as 'the king of mushrooms' 

'We strongly advise against foraging for mushrooms,' Genevieve Adamo from the NSW Poisons Information Centre said.

Mushrooms thrive in East Texas.  What's not to like?  Cool and damp are perfect conditions in which mushrooms grow, and we've got plenty of that to spare in our area forests and thickets.  Several years ago, the air conditioner in our radio station control room had a slow, but steady leak onto the carpeted floor.  We didn't realize that there was a leak until we saw a mushroom actually growing out of a space between the carpet and back wall of the studio. Get our free mobile app So, if you can have a mushroom growing out of a wet, moldy rug, the soil conditions in East Texas forests and m...

Australians are being warned to keep an eye out for a deadly mushroom that causes food poisoning and death. The death cap mushroom, also known as amanita phalloides, is a deadly fungus that is often mistaken for edible mushrooms.  There has been an increase in growth of the death cap mushroom in Canberra thanks to the warm wet weather. The death cap mushroom, also known as amanita phalloides (pictured), is a deadly fungus that is often mistaken for edible mushrooms  Death cap mushrooms (pictured) are responsible for 90 per cent of all mushroom deaths  ACT Chief Health Officer Dr Kerryn Col...

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