Fungi of all shapes, colors and sizes blanketed the Elbe Hills State Forest on Oct. 2. Some mushrooms were dark, with brown-yellow caps. Others were flatter and white, sprouting from rotting logs, or ...

In May 2024, Vermont designated the bear’s head tooth – also known as Hericium Americanum, which means the “Hedgehog of the Americas” – as its state mushroom. The white, spiny fungus, found growing on ...

We had reached the dead end of the closed-off road in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest without finding any of our target species — Grouse and wild mushrooms. There had always been birds and shaggy ...