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Harvested fire morels against charred bits of wood.
food

The Mysterious Mushroom That Only Grows in Burn Scars

To find fire morels, forage after wildfires.
Elaina Zachos July 12, 2022
Close-up of one of the cases.
Zagreb, Croatia

Museum of Mushrooms

This only museum in the world dedicated solely to mushrooms.
Gastro Obscura

Termitomyces Titanicus

The biggest edible mushroom in the world is also delicious.
The mushrooms typically appear on their own or in a very small cluster.
forests

Get to Know New Zealand's Hugely Popular, Thrillingly Blue Mushroom

It is a key part of local culture, and looks like it was colored with a crayon.
Jessica Leigh Hester November 2, 2021
At the heart of "Mushroom street"
Alicante, Spain

Calle de Las Setas (The Mushroom Street)

Down this yellow brick road, visitors are treated to toadstool houses and massive mushroom sculptures.
Believe it or not, this picture was taken on land.
nature

A Wave of Colorful ‘Coral’ Fungi Is Washing Over Wales

The magenta-colored blooms are rare but easy to spot.
Sabrina Imbler November 26, 2019
Gastro Obscura

Omajowa

Massive mushrooms spring from tall termite mounds during rainy season in Namibia.
Gastro Obscura

Brisbane Customs House Mushrooms

The basement of a 19th-century government building provides peak conditions for delicious fungi.
Depending on who you ask, <em>Rhodotus palmatus</em> looks like a brain or a wrinkled peach.
science

The Most Amazing, Smelly, Deadly Fungi in North America

Handing out superlatives to some overlooked species.
Jessica Leigh Hester December 5, 2018
Gastro Obscura

Tinder Fungus

One of the earliest fire-starting “technologies.”
Gastro Obscura

Djon-Djon

The Haitian mushroom transforms rice into an inky, earthy delicacy.
<em>Armillaria gallica</em> can get very, very big.
science

The Original 'Humungous Fungus' Is Even Bigger and Older Than We Thought

But it's not the biggest.
Matthew Taub October 12, 2018
Moody mushrooms form the eponymous cloud.
art

These Mushroom Clouds Are Made From Actual Mushrooms

A team of artists create horror out of fungi.
Anne Ewbank June 13, 2018
Matsutake (Tricholoma magnivelare)
news

Washington Could Get an Official State Mushroom

A bill would enshrine American matsutake as one of a few fungal symbols in the U.S.
Sarah Laskow February 5, 2018
Pamashto, Peru

Ceremonial Center of Pamashto

A circle of stones on a hilltop in Peru’s high jungle, aligned with the winter solstice and largely ignored by archaeologists.
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lenin

How Vladimir Lenin Became a Mushroom

The fake news that took the former Soviet Union by storm.
Eric Grundhauser December 5, 2017
A bridal veil stinkhorn in the wild.
Gastro Obscura

Bridal Veil Stinkhorn

This pretty mushroom smells like rotting flesh.
The orange stem belongs to the original mushroom; the grey head to the bodysnatching parasite.
parks

Found: A Rare Bodysnatching Fungus

The Powdercap Strangler is no joke.
Sarah Laskow October 31, 2017