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.

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 ...

Ruby Anastasio started foraging when she was a little kid. "We lived in Canada and I found morels in the yard every year, so I just became obsessed with it and I just spend a lot of time in the woods, ...

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 ...