While some mushrooms are completely harmless and, in fact, quite delicious to eat, others can cause severe or fatal health risks. The death cap mushroom, or Amanita phalloides, is aptly named due to ...

The answer to the “are wild mushrooms edible?” question is yes and no. Unfortunately, not enough people know that — and the number of being being poisoned by wild mushrooms is going up around the ...

Dorothy Clark of Culver, Oregon writes: "Toadstools are growing in the open soil and under plant leaves in my flower bed. The soil isn’t too damp, so I don’t know why these intruders are showing up. I ...

Q. My front lawn has been plagued with mushrooms. These are brown and puffy. I have to go out and pick them just about every other day. -- S.P., Houston A. These fungal growths are feeding on ...