There is no foolproof way to distinguish which mushroom is edible and which is poisonous. According to the health ministry, one person died earlier this year after eating wild mushrooms.

If you're keen to try your hand at foraging, wild mushrooms grow throughout the year, but autumn offers the most abundant and varied seasonal eating. From late summer until the first frost ...

In Kentucky, wildly popular morel mushrooms will ... pizza, red meat, and soup, or can be frozen or dehydrated for other use. While an exact number of edible mushroom species in Kentucky is ...

Foraging for wild edible plants is a rewarding and enriching ... identifiable by their trifoliate leaves and small, bright ...

The stakes are even higher with mushrooms, as many edible species ... wild mustard, or wild onions with parsley, oregano, ...

This story appears in the March 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. Mushrooms are everywhere — on forest floors, in gardens, in networks connecting below our feet. The largest organism ...

A weekend of foraging and toasting; plus, first tastes at The Ellwood; boar fest at Convivo; crab at Finch & Fork; and stories you may have missed.

A Tokyo family of four was struck by toadstool poisoning after mistaking the fungi they picked in a park for edible mushrooms. The metropolitan government issued a warning against eating wild ...

Identifying edible species of mushrooms in Australia requires caution and expertise. Fatal Death cap mushrooms are extremely difficult to distinguish from other wild mushrooms and can resemble ...