Scientists’ wordplay. Which is more fun, leucoagaricus meleagris or turkey-fowl-naked-foot? In between 1798 and 1945 mycologists named -...

A good dying deed. If you’re a dying tree you might as well feed a mushroom. This one looks like it’s already fed some woodpeckers – and...

Mosses, lichens, fungi... oh my! What the heck is going on here? This squat little stump looks like it’s been taken over by alien life...

That is the question ­­ Oooooo-MAH-me! Doesn’t this look like a scrumptious black morel hiding out behind a clump of grass? We weren’t...

Polypores – beautiful decomposers “Lumpy bracket” (trametes gibbosa) doesn’t seem like an adequate name for these lovely fungi. Robed in...

A surprising and welcome burst of color in a drab landscape. It's a cold, and some would say dreary, day along the trail, but look what...