An exceptionally wet December has contributed to an abundance of death cap mushrooms, or Amanita phalloides, on the Central ...

County health officials are asking residents to not eat wild mushrooms following dozens of hospitalizations reported throughout the state. San Joaquin Public Health Services posted a public service ...

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

The ongoing outbreak has led California to issue repeated warnings against the foraging and consumption of wild mushrooms. It ...

Mycologist Larry Millman is on a mission to record the fungi at Fresh Pond Reservation in Cambridge. He's one discovery away ...

Health officials in California have issued a warning: not to forage for and eat death cap mushrooms after three people have ...

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 ...

Foragers are being warned of what could be the largest toxic mushroom outbreak in California history, which state health ...

Three people have died and dozens of others have become ill due to a toxic mushroom outbreak in California. California ...

State health officials again warned against foraging as illness and deaths from eating the wild mushrooms known as death caps ...