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.” ...

Close-ups of inky cap mushrooms growing in the wild. - Sebastian_Photography/Shutterstock By now, you probably know the deal with mushrooms: Some of them, including ...

Ever eaten the inky cap mushroom? If you’re chewing some right now, that’s fine. Just don’t drink for a while. This mushroom doesn’t harm sober people, but it brings down the wrath of god on drinkers.

It's October again and mushroom season is here, filling Westborough's woods and clearings with colorful and odd-looking mushrooms and other fungi. Among them, the shaggy mane mushroom offers a sight ...

Shaggy mane, also colloquially known as an inky cap or lawyer’s wig and scientifically known as Coprinus comatus, are common, edible mushrooms with many potential health benefits. They usually grow up ...

This story originally featured on Field & Stream. There is a commonsense rule about wild mushrooms that all outdoorsmen should heed: Avoid them. There are about 10,000 species of fungi out there, of ...

The inky cap mushroom, or Coprinopsis atramentaria, is a small, unassuming mushroom until it starts to mature or is picked, at which point it begins to dissolve into black ichor. Its flavor is quite ...