But lilacs do not belong in pots. The cramped space is too stressful on their root systems, which twist and dig and ...

IS Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and the Orion staff is celebrating by doing what we do best: sharing ...

Author Alan Weisman is a well-traveled man. He has reported from all seven continents and in more than sixty countries, weaving through jungles and slogging through swamps, commun ...

In this issue of Orion, we seek to let the mushroom be, simply, itself; a marvel of mystery and interconnectedness that ...

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I DO NOT KNOW THE NIGHT; I sleep with the sun. This makes summer days feel long and glorious—and winters, hard. I do not know the night, and maybe I am afraid of what it suggests, the infinite ...

IN NOVEMBER 1897, Count Achilles de Vecchi, a Civil War veteran and wild mushroom enthusiast, purchased a quantity of Amanita muscaria from a novice dealer at his local Washington DC market. Once at ...

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Mushrooms on log, one large, many smaller, Kesselbach; Gerda Arendt / Wikimedia Commons ...

IN SOUTH AMERICA, in Australia, in forests near and far, you will know them by their pinhole doorways, by the pale piles of sawdust they leave that gather like snow against the base of a tree. What we ...