Shiitake mushrooms at Mueller's Mushrooms in Guatay, Calif. (Alan Nakkash / For The Times; typography and illustration by Selina Saldivar / For The Times) As an avid gardener and (very) amateur cook, ...

In the first few days after you open the package, mycelium creates a dense spiderweb beneath the clear plastic. Soon, fungus foams out, morphing into lumpy white orbs. Once they’re shaggy and softball ...

If you didn’t know, fall is the ideal time for mushroom harvesting in the Pacific Northwest. What better way to honor this than with a mushroom festival, such as Mount Pisgah’s annual event held this ...

Golden oyster mushrooms arrived in the United States in the early 2010s. The canary-colored, fluffy mushrooms have since ...

Mushrooms commonly grow in lawns and gardens; you've likely seen mushrooms cropping up on your lawn after a long period of rain. Mushrooms are the visible fruiting bodies of fungi. They provide an ...

Fast-growing and fairytale-like, mushrooms don’t necessarily appeal to everyone. Many associate fungi with skull-and-crossbones-adorned green glass bottles due to the fabled stories of ‘ole, avoiding ...

Inside a warehouse in west Phoenix, mushrooms fruit from their sawdust blocks. There are king trumpets with their fat stalks and brown caps shaped like a trumpet's bell. There are clumps of lion's ...