When I first started gardening, I used to think mushrooms meant something was going wrong. I’d be out watering the tomatoes or pulling weeds, and suddenly – poof – a strange little mushroom would ...

Photographer’s description: “This is the first year that inky cap mushrooms showed up under our Japanese maple. They were so gloriously oozy that I just had to take a picture with my iPhone 13.” ...

May, June, July and much of August have mostly been pleasant months except for rainfall. All have received less than normal, some far below, and the word for the summer is "drought." Thanks to ...

Mushrooms frequently appear in lawns in the wetter months, which, in our Mediterranean climate, are the winter and early spring. Fungi are a key component in the decomposition process in that they ...

Two men and two women appeared in the emergency room of St. Patrick’s Hospital in Missoula, Mont., one afternoon early last summer and insisted that they had been poisoned by drinking beer. The ...

Whether you find inky caps popping out of your petunia patch or a giant puffball chilling near your rose bushes, discovering mushrooms in your flower beds can be a bit startling. Usually it's not ...

Please be aware that I will be scrupulously avoiding the subject of edible or poisonous mushrooms for three reasons. First, different people react to mushrooms in different ways. Second, there are ...