Mushroom poisoning occurs every year, due to either accidental ingestion or misidentification of mushroom species by amateur mushroom hunters. The apparent differences between the edible and non-edible species may be very minute, so is safest to purchase cultivated edible mushrooms from a standard grocery store.
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