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Published online 5 April 2007 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news070402-8

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Mushrooms popping up year-round

UK fungi season now longer in autumn, with an extra fruiting in spring.

Climate change could turn the autumnal fungus foray in Britain into a year-round event, say researchers who have recorded changes in fruiting patterns over the past half-century.

In the autumn, the UK mushroom season has doubled in length, from about 33 days in the 1950s, to nearly 75 days now, they say.

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