This puffball is known also for its edible qualities, having a mildly sweet flavor. However, with many poisonous look-a-likes it is best to use extreme caution when foraging for these mushrooms. For ...

Bright red toadstools, funky jelly fungus, and rounded puffball mushrooms in lawn grass may look alarming. However, lawn mushrooms can be a sign that you have healthy soil. Mushrooms can help ...

DNA analysis reveals the big, flightless moa birds ate — and pooped out — 13 kinds of fungi, including ones crucial for New Zealand’s forest ecosystem.

Other examples are given, such as spores from puffball fungi dispersing in the wind. Earthstar fungi open on the woodland floor in the autumn when drops of rain cause them to explosively erupt spores.