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Fascinating funji delicate, pink; will it kill you?

A mushroom, apparently a coral mushroom, gathered near Priest Lake.  (Pecky Cox)

NATURE — This week’s damp June weather is a gift from God for mushroom gatherers, and Priest Lake is a hot spot for variety.

Indeed, Pecky Cox, producer of the everything-about-Priest Lake website , found this beauty in her neck of the woods on Wednesday.  Can you positively identify it?

A coral mushroom?

” Would you ask you readers,” she wrote. “It’s not yellow like the other one. OK to eat? Smells like dirty socks the way it’s supposed to… but pink-ish?”

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "Outdoors Blog." Read all stories from this blog