The best Halloween decorations sometimes come directly from nature. Intricate spider webs, enormous pumpkins, and a fungus that might stop you dead in your tracks. Commonly called dead man’s fingers, ...
They do not harm healthy trees and are beneficial in breaking down dead wood. Honey fungus, or Armillaria, is a notorious parasitic fungus that can cause serious damage to trees. It spreads through ...
Fungi are ubiquitous in the environment and play a key role in the decomposition and recycling of nutrients. On the one hand, their special properties are a great asset for the agricultural and ...
My mushroom book reports that this particular mushroom is “one of the prettiest and most deadly.” The next day while walking in the woods, I found and picked some small fresh fungi that I thought to ...