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Coast to Canopy: Mushrooms and other Fungi in Florida

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We’ve all seen mushrooms growing in our yard and for sale at the grocery store, but how can you learn which wild mushrooms are safe to eat and which ones are their poisonous lookalike? This week on Coast to Canopy, host Rob Diaz de Villegas sits down Dr. Matthew Smith, a professor in the Department of Plant Pathology at the University of Florida, and his graduate student, Alassane Sow to discuss all thing Florida mushrooms.