Experts say watch out for "Western Destroying Angel" mushrooms and "Death Cap" mushrooms because they have dangerous toxins.

The California Department of Public Health said that as of Jan. 6, 35 hospitalizations, including the three deaths and three ...

The Bay Area ranks among the hardest-hit areas, with poisonings reported in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.

This year's rise in poisonous mushroom varieties in California has led to precipitous rise in illness and deaths from ...

Dr Vijay Bhatt, a retired senior scientist from the Herbal Research Institute (Mandal), has identified the rare Chaga ...

A third person has died in a rash of poisonings from wild, foraged mushrooms in California, health officials report.

SHERMAN, Texas (KTEN) — It all started as a simple Facebook group, offering people a chance to explore fungi's vital role in ...

A large-scale population genomic study has shed new light on the evolutionary and domestication history of the button ...

Last month, the California Department of Public Health issued a statewide warning to avoid foraging after clusters of ...

California health officials are warning residents to avoid eating wild mushrooms after a sharp rise in poisonings that has ...

A few months from now, the monsoon-soaked sky islands of Southern Arizona will erupt into a spongy, white-capped wonderland. And the mushroom man will be there. Tucson resident Hernán Castro said he ...

Analyze the mystery of Yunnan’s blue-staining mushrooms and the science behind the "little people" hallucinations reported ...