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Lawn Mushrooms: Identify Mushrooms in Your Yard

Mushrooms in a lawn are fruiting bodies of fungi feeding on buried wood, dead roots and thatch — not on living grass. These pages cover why they appear, how to tell the common yard species apart by gill colour, spore print and stem base, and what to do when children or dogs share the yard. No page on this site tells you a wild mushroom is safe to eat. If anyone has eaten one, call Poison Control at 1-800-222-1222 in the United States before symptoms appear.

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