Following some generous rainfall in October and December, fungi in the soil and in trees have generated their spore-producing tissues. Extremely varied, depending on fungal species, they go by various ...

The fruiting bodies of bambusicolous Shiraia fungi have long been used in traditional Chinese folk medicine. Hypocrellin A (HA) is a bioactive perylenequinone from the fruiting bodies and serves as an ...

When COVID forced Melburnians to isolate during large parts of 2020 and 2021, many took the opportunity to walk around parks, creeks or remnant bush. In your walks, you may have noticed the wonderful ...

Most fungi are out of sight, spending most of their lives hidden as a vast, threadlike network called mycelium and producing ...

Sometimes a photo is literally a matter of life, death — and zombies. This haunting image, winner of the 2022 BMC Ecology and Evolution photography competition, certainly fits that description. It ...

I was taking a walk in my neighborhood and noticed that several of my neighbors had various mushrooms growing in their lawns. Mushrooms, sometimes called toadstools, are the visible reproductive ...

Is there a fungus among us? If you want to improve your soil while growing some tasty mushrooms, perhaps there should be!