Chie Nomura, a senior researcher at Osaka Institute of Public Health, warns that “eating wild mushrooms is a big gamble”. It is estimated that Japan has between 5,000 and 6,000 species of ...

Cultivated fresh mushrooms are available all year. Wild mushrooms are at their peak in autumn although some, such as morels, are found in spring. Dried mushrooms are available all year round.

This time of year, you might see fresh morel mushrooms pop up at farmers markets and on restaurant menus. But what exactly are these funky-looking fungi? Morels are wild mushrooms with distinctive ...