Harvesters reported a variety of reasons for collecting mushrooms. Many collected morels and chanterelles to eat, and species ...

While some mushrooms are completely harmless and, in fact, quite delicious to eat, others can cause severe or fatal health risks. The death cap mushroom, or Amanita phalloides, is aptly named due to ...

Sometimes it can be difficult to tell whether a plant is toxic or not based on its name alone. This isn’t the case with the death cap mushroom, which is as poisonous as it sounds. Although this ...

There are over 14,000 species of mushrooms on Earth, ranging from poisonous death caps to delicious morels to mushrooms of the psychedelic variety. I’m sure you’ve seem them growing from soil, cow ...

What Are Lion's Mane Mushrooms? Lion’s mane mushrooms are big, white mushrooms that resemble a lion’s mane. Although they’re generally thought of as a single type of mushroom, there are three ...