Observation: I saw some stogy mushrooms poking out of the ground. Like upturned cups on stems they were a light brown. I didn’t get the feel of them since one cannot tell whether or not a mushroom is poisonous. We should leave this discovery to the experts after all.
Research: My research is from the Encyclopedia. I have learned that mushrooms grow from a root-like hyphae in the soil. The Fungi is grown in warm moist places, taking food from dead materials like animals. Under the mushrooms cap are little slits which are called gills. Spores grow on the gills and when the spores are ripe, they blow away till they find a moist place such as a rotten log. They grow very quickly. One day you see nothing unusual and the next day after a rain, mushrooms are poking out of the earth where you least expect them.
Some mushrooms you find in the forests are edible, but some like the fly amanita, which is red with white spots, are beautiful and deadly.
It is really strange that this kind of mushroom is often portrayed in video games and toys!
The most poisonous mushroom though is the destroying angel which is white with raised white bumps all over the cap.
The mushroom that I found is a brown cap that is very common in the USA.
