My former neighbor Mike Corse, owner of Canton-based Deep Root Mushroom Farm, suggested I write about a Christmas fungus that could account for some of the magical features of that holiday tradition.

Q : Can you identify this mushroom? [The reader sent a photo.] I ran across it while deer hunting in a pine grove in south Arkansas. A : I am not a mushroom expert, but I think it is commonly called ...

Every mind-bending molecule in nature has an evolutionary origin; a defense against being eaten, a lure for pollinators, or ...

In the yard yesterday, I came upon a fly amanita. This is a mushroom — Latin name Amanita muscaria — that you don’t want to harvest and eat. Whenever I find one, I’m reminded of a walk I took decades ...

MADISON - If Lewis Carroll had described in detail the mushroom Alice nibbles in Wonderland to shrink and grow to her rightful size, he might have noted a scarlet cap topped with white warts: the fly ...

The federal agency is warning against products from Berlin-based company Deutschen Cannabis Manufaktur (DCM). Muscimol is known to cause dizziness, nausea tiredness, visual and auditory ...