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Watch your Paws with Mushrooms!

 

Maybe you have had mushrooms in your spaghetti.  They can be really tasty, if cooked right.  And maybe you have seen mushrooms outside, growing on the ground or on the sides of trees.  What you should know, however, is that the ones you see outside are not the same type of mushroom that you have eaten for supper.

Mushrooms have an important job to play in nature.  They help by recycling the dead material in old trees.  They are also food (and sometimes homes) for some types of animals

If you see mushrooms outside ... watch your paws!

Do not pick and eat wild mushrooms.  Some of them can make you very, very, VERY sick.  Leave them alone and let them do their job.  (Let your parents choose which mushrooms you eat.)

 

 

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