Plants and animals. Flora and fauna. While these phrases are familiar, they don't contain another kingdom of organisms crucial to local habitats. These life-forms are neither plants nor animals.

Fungi don’t get the respect they deserve. Maybe that’s because they do most of their work in the dark, beneath the ground or on dead matter, or because there’s something essentially alien and ...

The world of mushroom foraging has long fascinated me. As an avid hiker, I’ve often been intrigued by the mysterious brown, white and orange mushrooms sprouting from the trees and ground in Washington ...

Woven into the underside of the topsoil and throughout rotting logs runs a thready, glistening, white meshwork of mycelium. These skeins make up a robust and expeditious network that balances entire ...