Forest mushrooms that smell like shrimp and other shellfish have puzzled scientists for years. Researchers believed the same ...

What Is the Weird and Wonderful Mushroom? Mushrooms are a type of fungi, a kingdom of millions of species that evolved in the oceans a billion years ago and then colonized land 500 million years later ...

Like many mushroom harvesters, I got interested in foraging for fungi during the COVID-19 pandemic. I had been preparing for a summer of field work studying foraged desert plants in a remote part of ...

Foragers look at late summer rains like dinner bells signaling a feast. When moisture collects in soil and decaying hardwoods, fungal mycelium sends up heavenly fruiting bodies that we like to call ...

J.T. Gelineau, Mushrooms Naturally founder and chef, holds a bag of mushroom growing material at his mushroom farm in O’Fallon, Mo. Unlike other specialty mushrooms, morels aren't typically farmed at ...

IDAHO, USA — As spring unfolds across Idaho's varied landscapes, a different kind of treasure hunt is taking place in the state's damp forests - the search for the elusive morel mushroom. "There's ...

My longtime journalist pal Bob Tita was a newsroom desk neighbor of mine two decades ago before he left Northwest Indiana in 2002 to become a reporter for Crain’s Chicago Business, and later, a ...

Morel mushroom hunting is an art that can take years to perfect. That was the case for Carrie Hensel of Ann Arbor, who has been hunting for the elusive mushrooms for 12 years. Known as "shroomers," ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MISSOURI – What started as a casual trip in ...

MOLINE, Ill. — While we are nearing the end of the morel mushroom season, there is still time to hunt for the highly sought-after mushrooms. The fungi have already been found in every one of our ...

Paula Wethington is a digital producer at CBS Detroit. She previously held digital content roles at NEWSnet, Gannett/USA Today network and The Monroe News in Michigan. She is a graduate of the ...