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Are fungi plants?
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Ceviche. Peruvian ceviche (sebiche). Raw seafood dish with lime, cilantro, peppers, plantains. Cuisine, food
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Grains and spices in bags, India. (Indian, vendor, market, food)
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Mushrooms growing in forest. (vegetable; fungus; mushroom; macrofungi; epigeous)
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Gills of three old specimens of webcap fungus (Cortinarius) in Gloucestershire, South West England. toxic, fungi, poisonous mushroom
7 of the World’s Most Poisonous Mushrooms
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Hemp (Cannabis sativa).
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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)
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Common, or southern, cassowary (Casuarius casuarius).
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