A Minnesota State Symbol You Can Sautee with Butter

MN90: Minnesota History in 90 Seconds · May 12, 2026 · 1m · transcript

In 1984, Minnesota became the first state to name an official mushroom, the morel.

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Editor: Britt Aamodt

Producer: Katharine DeCelle

Editorial support: Emily Krumberger

Mixing & mastering: Chris Harwood

Image: Man at a table full of morel mushrooms. [credit: Photographer, Peter Leach. Courtesy of the Minnesota Historical Society]

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