All true oyster mushrooms are edible and won't present a major threat to tree health. Plus, they kill and eat roundworms, making them technically carnivorous. Polypores, overall, are common ...

Unlike many other common edible varieties, lobster mushrooms are actually a parasite—forming only after an Ascomycetes fungi ...

“Fungi are far more mysterious than plants,” says Robert Beelman, director of the Penn State Center for Plant and Mushroom Foods for Health. He led a recent study showing that two common ...

In Lithuania’s Dzūkija National Park, losing yourself amongst the pine trees while hunting for mushrooms is an occurrence so common it has ... and variety of edible mushrooms.

One of the world’s deadliest mushrooms and it's common in England. This mushroom has caused the most recorded fatalities in the UK and there is no known antidote.