Wine caps are named for their wine-red round heads, which can be as large as 2 to 6 inches in width, with a white stem around 3 to 6 inches long. The caps lighten as they mature, while the black gills ...

And if you experience any symptoms yourself after eating wild or foraged mushrooms, go to a hospital immediately and call ...

Some deadly mushrooms are easy to mistake for their tasty counterparts, resulting in several serious illnesses and one death ...

A few years ago a reader sent me an email about identifying a mushroom in his lawn. These mushrooms were popping up in the lawn in clusters, just as I had in my yard a few weeks ago. The reader said ...

Mature death caps have a smooth top cap that may be white or yellow with a green hue. (Getty Images) Death cap mushrooms have made headlines this week after a jury found an Australian woman guilty of ...

After half a century of patiently waiting in the dark and biding their time, the deadliest mushroom in the world has arrived in Idaho. For decades, Amanita phalloides — commonly known as the death cap ...

California health officials have issued a statewide warning after at least 21 mushroom poisoning cases and one death were ...

Sometimes it can be difficult to tell whether a plant is toxic or not based on its name alone. This isn’t the case with the death cap mushroom, which is as poisonous as it sounds. Although this ...