In a snow-covered village on the northern outskirts of Moscow, Russia’s most famous mycologist, Mikhail Vishnevsky, poured me a cup of light psychoactive mushroom tea. But it wasn’t psilocybin, the ...

My former neighbor Mike Corse, owner of Canton-based Deep Root Mushroom Farm, suggested I write about a Christmas fungus that could account for some of the magical features of that holiday tradition.

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The fly agaric is the quintessential mushroom of fairy tales. Its big, bright fruiting bodies scatter in great numbers across mossy forests of North America and Europe. They emerge from the soil first ...

With the advent of autumn rains, hikers can again expect to run across mushrooms as diverse as familiar white puffballs and shapeless, gelatinous things that only experts recognize. No other mushroom, ...

A week of rain capped by a deluge from slow-moving thunderstorms brought seven mudslides into the Middle Fork Valley in the San Juan Mountains. The same rains triggered the appearance of many species ...

THIS year has been a particularly good year for the Fly Agaric Toadstool which has been made famous in children's stories because of its and white speckled appearance. In all the nature reserves, the ...

Brett Westwood seeks out the story of the magical mushroom Fly Agaric, with its red cap and white spots. From 2016. Show more Brett Westwood seeks out the magical mushroom, Fly Agaric. With its red ...