Bright red toadstools, funky jelly fungus, and rounded puffball mushrooms in lawn grass may look alarming. However, lawn ...

I started a brand new cut flower garden bed this spring and it's been exciting to watch seedlings appear and get bigger.

Although there are fungal diseases that harm plants, from powdery mildew to blackspot on roses, mushrooms and most other fungi are typically far from harmful to plants. In fact, plants rely on ...

When I first started gardening, I used to think mushrooms meant something was going wrong. I’d be out watering the tomatoes ...

Mushrooms are more closely related to animals than plants, said Matt Kasson, an associate professor of mycology at West Virginia University. The first hypotheses about the relationship between ...

Mushrooms, neither plants nor animals, belong to the fascinating kingdom of fungi. These heterotrophs obtain nutrients by decomposing organic matter, playing a vital role in nutrient cycling.

And there I learned my first mind-blowing truth — mushrooms aren’t plants at all. They are actually more like a fruit or flower — the reproductive part of a root-like branching organism ...

But this way of looking at mushrooms — as pot plants — was new to me. The exhibits were beautiful, weird, slightly magical — and just a little bit creepy. Yellow oyster mushrooms displayed ...