A Anne Pringle, professor of botany and bacteriology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a mycologist studying the ecology and evolution of mushrooms: To identify an edible mushroom vs. a ...

Mushrooms in Peakare like surprise packages: some fill your belly, others fill your grave. With no food labels and plenty of ways to die, foraging becomes a high-stakes guessing game. Luckily for you, ...

A warm, wet summer weather means wild mushrooms are multiplying, and poison control calls are increasing. Most of those calls involve children under 5 picking or eating a mushroom that could be ...

The soggy summer across much of the Midwest has produced a bumper crop of wild mushrooms — and a surge in calls to poison control centers. At the Minnesota Regional Poison Center, calls from April ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Mushroom foraging has become a popular hobby in recent years. Thanks to Minnesota's warm and wet summer, the opportunities seem endless for foragers, with mushrooms flourishing under the ...