Fungi can be enigmatic organisms. Mushrooms or other structures may be visible above the soil, but beneath lurks a complex network of filaments, or hyphae, known as the mycelium. It is even possible ...

Each fungus may “speak” with many other species— and it turns out they have a lot to say. Although most of us think of fungi as “mushrooms,” these spore-producing bodies are just the reproductive ...

Fungi have been recorded having conversations, with a scientist finding they can communicate with a language similar to that of humans. Over the last decade, researchers have found evidence that ...

When Italian botanist Giuseppe Inzenga first tasted the white ferula mushroom in 1863, he described it as one of the tastiest he had ever had. Once found in just 38 square miles on Sicily’s Madonie ...

Fungi may help some tree-killer beetles turn a tree’s natural defense system against itself. This fungi-made perfume might explain why bark beetles tend to swarm the same tree. As climate change makes ...

They trap sediments, absorb excess nutrients and turn pollutants into less harmful substances. Now, the list of pollutants ...