Why Do I Have Mushrooms In My Yard? Mushrooms feed on thatch, stumps, old roots, or even construction sawdust or debris buried on your property. Even when the fruiting bodies them ...

Though no one may be around to hear when a tree falls in the forest, countless critters take note. Dormant fungi within the tree awaken to feast on it, joined by others that creep up from the soil.

Reporting in Current Biology today (January 17), Veera Tuovinen of the University of Alberta and her colleagues describe wolf lichens (Letharia) that are made up of an alga along with three types of ...

Fungi are one of the world’s primary organisms ... Mushrooms and toadstools, or Basidiomycota, have a complex genetic composition which has historically defied detailed experimentation. Since 1998, ...