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Commonly known as "fly agaric" (agaric is a gilled mushroom)
    A few blocks from our house is Redwood Acres which hosts an annual mushroom fair. There were people selling mushrooms they grew, people teaching how to grow your own at home, and experts were discussing their favorite fungi with the curious observers. I saw people bringing in their home-grown mushrooms and arranging them in the display cases. Some mushrooms had folksy labels like "The Queen" and "Pigs Ears" but if anyone craved the scientific term, there was an expert at the front waiting to meet them with identification guides galore. There was even a sniffing booth and I discovered the queer smells of certain mushrooms like cinnamon butter and toothpaste and old shoes. This fair is full of surprises. Even though I've been two years in a row, I'm still shocked to see a mushroom head that's bigger then my own.
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These are various types of hallucinogenic mushrooms, by the far the most popular section
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The mascot for the learn-to-grow-your-own mushrooms kit.
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I learned in my natural history class that you can stamp the gills of the mushroom and identify it later that way
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Aminatas... Everybody's favorite for its bold colors (and probably its hallucinogenic properties)



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