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All about mushrooms: the fungus among us GARDENING.(Flavor/Gracious Living)
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The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
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November 5, 2006
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Byline: REBECCA BURCHER JONES
By Rebecca Burcher Jones
Correspondent
SPEND ANY TIME at all listening to Theresa Augustin talk about mushrooms and the important role they play in nature and you'll never again kick over another one - certainly not just for the fun of it.
"Their purpose is to decompose," says Augustin, curator of natural areas at Norfolk Botanical Garden. "If we didn't have mushrooms, we'd have dead stuff piled to the sky. We'd have no soil."
In North America, there are about 10,000 identified species of mushrooms. They come in an array of ...
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