Bright red toadstools, funky jelly fungus, and rounded puffball mushrooms in lawn grass may look alarming. However, lawn mushrooms can be a sign that you have healthy soil; they help lawns grow ...

A UK forager, Alissimon Minnitt, discovered a giant 5kg puffball mushroom and spent a week creating innovative dishes with it. From spicy fried mushro ...

Ms Minnitt, from Chesham, found it close to where she previously found another giant, but slightly smaller, mushroom in 2017. "A giant puffball is the most easily recognisable 'forageable ...

Alissimon Minnitt holds up a giant puffball mushroom she discovered in England. @ alissimon_music / SWNS ...

A giant mushroom has fed a family for a week after its finder stumbled across it while out for a walk. Alissimon Minnitt was walking with her dad near North Marston, in Buckinghamshire, when she ...

Foraging mushrooms can be both delicious and exciting, so long as you know what you're getting into. Use these tips for hunting mushrooms, from an expert.

Since then I’ve found a giant puffball (Calvatia gigantea) the size of my head, colorful, fanning chicken of the woods, delicate-looking coral tooth (Hericium coralloides), the bizarre shrimp of ...

According to enthusiasts with the Ohio Mushroom Society, giant puffball mushrooms are fruiting profusely in NE Ohio right now thanks to ideal weather conditions.

Introducing the giant puffball (Calvatia gigantean), a species of mushroom that is found from late summer to early winter throughout much of the temperate world. The best news? It’s edible. Foraging, ...

Illinois has a ‘state mushroom' for the first time, thanks to these students SB 3514 designates the calvatia gigantea, commonly known as the "giant puffball," as the official State mushroom in ...

A field mushroom, just a few cm tall, releases about 100 million spores per hour through its gills. A giant puffball produces about seven billion spores.