Select a mushroom-growing kit or purchase spores. Kits are ideal for beginners as they contain everything you need, including ...

If there is dead or sickly-looking grass near the fairy ring or mushrooms, the fungus may have grown too dense.

Hidden beneath the leaf litter on the forest floor, underneath moss, lichen and logs, a vast network of mysterious and ingenious fungi stretches out. This life connects trees, soil and a whole ...

Once in the cellar, there are long plastic bags of straw, stacked like firewood, and some with mushrooms growing out of them – it’s an impressive sight to see. Every once in awhile you meet ...

(CAUTION: ON NO ACCOUNT PICK OR EAT ANY MUSHROOM GROWING IN THE WILD UNLESS YOU CAN POSITIVELY IDENTIFY IT.) All mushrooms are best used on the day of purchase, although cultivated ones will keep ...

Portobellos are the more mature form of everyday cremini mushrooms, growing much wider than their younger counterparts. The large caps allow more moisture to evaporate from the gills, which ...

Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Yellow parasol mushroom sclerotia growing on dead orchid roots and bark (left) and young mushrooms (right). Scot Nelson (right ...