Photographer’s description: “This is the first year that inky cap mushrooms showed up under our Japanese maple. They were so gloriously oozy that I just had to take a picture with my iPhone 13.” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. These terrifying mushrooms are nothing like the ones you’ll ...

When I first started gardening, I used to think mushrooms meant something was going wrong. I’d be out watering the tomatoes or pulling weeds, and suddenly – poof – a strange little mushroom would ...