Some general types of mushrooms that grow on trees include bracket or 'shelf' mushrooms, jelly fungus, and cap fungus, although the wild world of mushrooms rarely fits into these neat categories.

Many wild mushrooms are nutritious, delicious, and safe to eat, but some pose a health risk. Learn 3 edible wild mushrooms and 5 poisonous types to avoid.

Wild mushrooms can appear overnight and remain maddeningly elusive even under the most ideal conditions. Veteran morel mushroom hunters covet their secret spots with a possessive fervor equal to that ...

Although China cultivates morels commercially, these wild mushrooms are typically hand-picked in other parts of the world. They can also be quite expensive, upwards of $40 per pound.

Most of those calls involve children under 5 picking or eating a mushroom that could be poisonous. From April through June, the Minnesota Regional Poison Center says it has received 66 calls for ...

PANDAPAS POND — Eating wild mushrooms can kill you, but hobbyists and now commercial collectors are combing Virginia’s wooded hills and hollows for edible fungi – even during this dry ...

We know people do forage and consume wild mushrooms, whether intentionally or accidentally. Sometimes, the consequences can be serious. It’s wild mushroom season in Australia.