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.” ...

It's October again and mushroom season is here, filling Westborough's woods and clearings with colorful and odd-looking mushrooms and other fungi. Among them, the shaggy mane mushroom offers a sight ...

QUESTION: Just about every time it rains, I get bunches of these toadstools coming up in my lawn. They start out tan-colored, but in a few days they turn black and get really gross. I am worried that ...

Because of surgical complications it was a slow summer for me. I took only a smattering of photos, but as my health improved my interest in taking snapshots did too. The appearance of multitudes of ...

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 ...

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 ...