Mushrooms are fascinating organisms that play a vital role in ecosystems. While some varieties are sought after for th ...

Wood ear is mostly saprotrophic but sometimes digests living plant matter and may indicate that a tree is sick and decaying. Honey mushrooms belong to the genus Armillaria. Varying wildly in color ...

A group of researchers in St. Gallen, Switzerland, is developing glowing trees using a parasite-like fungus that infiltrates ...

The honey fungus often ... and kills a variety of trees and woody plants and once present in a garden can be managed but not eradicated. The yellow-brown mushrooms that appear above ground are ...

Further down the path, Nettles saw a large cluster of ringless honey mushrooms. "These are popping up all over everybody's yard. If you've got any trees in your yard right now with dead roots ...

It’s a tree parasite. “It feels like skin ... Steven Landseadel holds up what is commonly known as a ringless honey mushroom as Stephanie Hanna, left, from Orlando, looks on.

the honey fungus suddenly appears in the woods. I am always very excited at the sight of a colony, still with closed caps, very tightly packed in bunches at the foot of the trees or sometimes just ...

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 ...