A rare dark purple mushroom has been documented in Arizona for the first time. As reported by This Is Tucson, a senior at the University of Arizona was foraging with friends in the Santa Catalina ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The University of Arizona is crediting one of its students for discovering a rare, purple mushroom on Mount Lemmon. Caitlin Dowd, senior studying geology, found the rare ...

It was a warm July afternoon near the Bear Wallow Campground in the Santa Catalinas when Caitlin Dowd crawled over a log and saw it. Entoloma occidentale variety metallicum. Brilliant purple stem and ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - We’ve learned of the ways that The Purple Mushroom Farm grows and sells their mushrooms, but now we learn more about proper care and even the proper way to prepare them.

APTOS — Christian Schwarz is speed-walking through the Forest of Nisene Marks State Park when he suddenly stops and reaches into a clump of brush to pull out something that looks wonderfully familiar.

Amateur mycologist Arne Martinson guides mushroom identification tours through northern Wisconsin, discovering unexpected colors amongst the leaves of the Northwoods, from iconic Amanita muscaria to ...