Mushrooms commonly grow in lawns and gardens; you've likely seen mushrooms cropping up on your lawn after a long period of rain. Mushrooms are the visible fruiting bodies of fungi. They provide an ...

Rainy weather can cause mushrooms to sprout in lawns and mulch. “That’s fine,” said Sharon Yiesla, plant knowledge specialist at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle. “What’s not fine is when you see ...

Q: Mushrooms suddenly appeared on my tree’s trunk. How can I treat them to protect the tree? A: Unfortunately, you can’t treat mushrooms growing out of wood, and the fungal growth that produced them ...

A cluster of brown-capped mushrooms growing out of bark mulch in a garden. - Christina Dutkowski/Shutterstock Having a few wild mushrooms pop up in your backyard can be an excellent way to design and ...

After heavy rainfalls, tiny and delicate white caps often appear all over lawns seemingly overnight, fading away just as quickly. While the fleeting display can spark the curiosity of homeowners, ...

We are of two minds about mushrooms. As part of the fungi kingdom, they may be the death of us (see HBO’s “The Last of Us”). Or, just maybe, a big handful of the 5 million or more species will be our ...