Colorado's official designated mushroom is edible, tastes and smells like almonds, and can be found in the high mountains of ...

DENVER (CN) — The emperor mushroom, Agaricus augustus, stands supreme in Colorado after Governor Jared Polis signed a bill into law on Monday naming the fungi the official state mushroom. “We are here ...

Colorado has long had a state flower (the Rocky Mountain columbine), a state bird (the lark bunting) and a state animal (bighorn sheep), but it just became the eighth state with an official mushroom.