Officials with the department said the mushroom is the official state mushroom of Texas and one of the rarest mushrooms in the world. Officials said the mushroom is highly selective on where it grows, ...

The hissing fungus called "Devil's Cigar," which is found only in certain parts of Texas and Japan, was spotted at a state park again. Inks Lake State Park, about 100 miles north of San Antonio near ...

A Texas state park posted on social media Monday about rare mushrooms resurfacing in Burnet County and is allowing the public to see the fungi during a visit. Inks Lake State Park found chorioactis ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) – Some mushrooms are good on salads, while some can make you feel kind of funny. Still others apparently hiss. The latter mushroom, whose scientific name is Chorioactis Geaster and is ...

The Devil's Cigar nickname is inspired by the dark brown, 3-4 inch-long fuzzy capsule in which it first emerges, typically in the late fall, according to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden. When the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — East of the Permian Basin, located in the Zilker Park in Austin City limits, a strange organism has stirred up quite a bit of noise. This organism is actually the State Fungi of Texas, ...