At this time of the year the local woods are littered 覆盖 / 许多with fungi . Fungi is the plural of fungus 菌类 / 真菌. In English, you could also say that the woodland floor/ground is ‘carpeted’ with fungi. They are ‘sprouting’ 成长 everywhere.
Some types of fungus like mushroom 蘑菇 are edible 食用 ; other types are inedible 非食用 – they cannot be eaten.
Different types of fungus .. but which one is edible?
To compound the situation (make worse 使恶化) a lot of the inedible fungus looks like similar edible fungus … A lot of the indeible fungus contains toxins – poison 毒素. If you make a mistake and pick (collect) a type of inedible fungus and eat it, you will be very ill for three days. Then you go through remission 缓解 and think you have recovered …. but, another three days later you die. Many types of fungus ‘prove fatal’ 致命/ 你死.
Every year a few people make a mistake and eat some sort of inedible fungus. Most die … Those who survive have serious problems with their kidneys and liver
肾脏 / 肝 and need dialysis 透析 for the rest of their life. Dialysis – a medical machine ‘cleans’ their blood – they must do it every week or they die.
Recently a chef 厨师 cooked some fungus to make a meal for three of his friends. The chef had been collecting wild fungus for many years … but one day he made a mistake … some poisonous fungus looks almost identical 相同 to edible types of fungus. One of the friends died – and the others will be on dialysis for the rest of their lives. They were lucky – they got to hospital in time ..
Even more recently a newspaper carried a report about a twelve year old girl who wanted to know if a type of mushroom she found was poisonous? To see if it was poisonous she ate it … It was a poisonous mushroom. That type of mushroom contained enough toxin (poison) to kill two adults. Doctors are amazed – the girl was ill for a few days but she survived .. and is back in perfect health. She does not even need dialysis. A lucky gir indeed.
Anybody want some mushroom soup?
Teaching in China 
teacher,your blog make me feel( falls into place).haha,i have been studying english for more than 10 years,why chinese student can not speak english well,not knowing. however, very happy to be here.