Why are some mushrooms poisonous?
By Karen Hughes, University of Tennessee (THE CONVERSATION) — Why are some mushrooms poisonous and some are not? – Alice T., age 11 You may have noticed that mushrooms pop up in your yard or in parks right after a rain but don’t last for long. A mushroom is the above-ground part of a fungus. Most of the time, fungi live as threadlike structures called hyphae underground or in materials like wood. For