Browsing: Fungi

Agarikon is one of two endangered species of fungi in the United States. So rare is the species that scientists have placed samples of it in…

Sylvia Plath’s poem Mushrooms is a sinister paean to the natural world. Her observations on fungi are freighted with foreboding, noting how “very / Whitely, discreetly,…

Inside a large greenhouse at the University of Kansas, Professor Liz Koziol and Dr Terra Lubin tend rows of sudan grass in individual plastic pots. The…

Crayfish, weevils and fungi are being released into the environment in order to tackle invasive species across Britain.Scientists working for the government have been breeding species…

From the outside, it looks like any ordinary nappy – one of the tens of billions that end up in landfill each year. But the Hiro…

A golden mushroom that grows in clusters and can attack and kill trees has increased by 200% in the UK in a year because of the…

My local nature reserve used to be a Victorian rubbish dump, but now it is full of wildlife. And if you look closely on old logs…

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Dr Tom May, a mycologist at the Royal Botanic Gardens and an expert witness at the Erin Patterson trial, has collaborated with renowned fungi photographer Stephen…

Graveyards, sheep farms and garden lawns are among the hundreds of new sites for rare pink and purple fungi discovered by citizen scientists.The charity Plantlife has…