Although they may look magical and appealing, it's important to be cautious when foraging for fungi. Experts share eveyrthing ...

While I was thinking I should write about a spring-like subject, the dawn chorus that now greets us every morning or the skunk cabbage and rhubarb pushing up through the thin remains of the snow, but ...

Fall mushrooms, the fruiting bodies of fungi, may not excite gatherers as much as May morels. But their shapes, colors, ...

While some mushrooms are completely harmless and, in fact, quite delicious to eat, others can cause severe or fatal health risks. The death cap mushroom, or Amanita phalloides, is aptly named due to ...

Wine caps are named for their wine-red round heads, which can be as large as 2 to 6 inches in width, with a white stem around 3 to 6 inches long. The caps lighten as they mature, while the black gills ...

These September days are ideal for taking walks in nature. Whether it is looking at the leaf colors of the annual autumn arboreal show or noting the growth, colors and insect activity in patches of ...

Botanist Marja-Liisa Kämärä told "Terevisioon" that identifying mushrooms requires examining the whole fungus, including the cap, stem and the underside.

I grew up in Western North Carolina seeing plenty of mushrooms around the yard, picked them to be umbrellas for my dolls, and peeked under a few, hoping to find a garden fairy. I haven't seen many ...

Challenging the long-standing assumption that a cell’s nucleus contains a complete set of chromosomes, recent research ...

A DEADLY fungus invasion has hit Britain as mushrooms so poisonous a mouthful could kill you spring up in UK soil, experts claim. Death Cap mushrooms, dubbed "silent assassins" by the Woodland Trust, ...