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Santa Cruz Celebrates Mushroom Bloom at Historic Fungus Fair

Highly poisonous Amanita muscaria (aka, fly agaric mushroom, smurf mushroom, Super Mario mushroom) ten feet from the Santa Cruz Yacht Harbor. Photo by Bridget Lyons.

The Fungus Fair celebrates its 50th, this year at the London Nelson Center in Downtown Santa Cruz, as mushrooms seem to pop up everywhere.