Mushrooms that appear identical turn out to be different species, correcting decades of errors in biodiversity records.

This winter, California is seeing the largest outbreak of mushroom poisonings in at least the past three decades. In a ...

What if living organisms could perform some of the tasks handled by silicon chips? New research suggests fungal systems can exhibit memory-like electrical behavior, opening the door to unconventional, ...

After poisonous mushrooms sickened 35 people in California and killed three, Washington state residents may be wondering if ...

California officials are warning Northern and Central Coast residents against foraging for mushrooms amid an outbreak of ...

A third person has died in a rash of poisonings from wild, foraged mushrooms in California, health officials report.

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...

California health officials are warning residents to avoid eating wild mushrooms after a sharp rise in poisonings that has ...

California reports a sharp rise in death cap mushroom poisonings, with three deaths since November. Learn the symptoms, risks ...

At least three people have died in California after consuming death cap mushrooms, a highly toxic wild fungus often mistaken ...

A California man died after consuming “death cap” mushrooms — the third such poisoning death since November. California has ...

A Sonoma County resident died last weekend after ingesting wild mushrooms, at least the third such death in California since ...