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Mushrooms
Mushrooms are responsible for numerous calls to poison centers each year. There are thousands of different species of mushroom. Mushrooms come in a variety of shapes, sizes, and colors. Toxic mushrooms may resemble the edible mushrooms you find in the grocery store. Because of the difficulty identifying mushroom species, the poison center recommends never ingesting wild mushrooms.
As the saying goes, "There are old mushroom hunters and there are bold mushroom hunters, but there are no old, bold mushroom hunters."