If you’re curious about wild mushrooms, you have a whole kingdom to explore. To begin your journey of identifying the toadstools around you, invest in a wild mushroom field guide. When you’re ...

Professors R. Michael Davis and Robert Sommer will be at The Avid Reader in downtown Davis at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 2, to discuss their new “Field Guide to Mushrooms of Western North America.” The ...

Sherry Kay wrote "A New Guide to Kansas Mushrooms" with co-authors Benjamin Sikes and Caleb Morse As a girl hunting puffballs with her mother in south central Kansas, Sherry Kay never planned to write ...

Mushrooms that appear identical turn out to be different species, correcting decades of errors in biodiversity records.

Rachel Zoller’s career as a mushroom foraging instructor started by accident. Eight years ago, this Pacific Northwest native was out foraging for huckleberries with friends. The huckleberries were ...

Fungi are sprouting in clusters after weeks of heavy rain in the Bay Area. That may be good news for those interested in ...

Most of us were told the same thing about wild mushrooms when we were growing up: Don’t touch! Times are changing, however, and so is our connection to fungi. As Coloradans come around on the power of ...

As spring approaches, every forager, mushroom hunter, and turkey hunter wants to know: Where can I find morel mushrooms? After all, the morel is America’s mushroom—more so than any other. It may be ...

The hills are alive — with the sights of mushrooms. It’s peak mushroom season for both novice and pro foragers in the Pacific Northwest. You can find mushrooms in both eastern and western Washington, ...