An ancient and enormous organism called Prototaxites, initially found to be a type of fungus, may actually be an unknown ...

Mushrooms are excellent in soup, stir-fry, spaghetti sauce, and pizza. While mushrooms are great to use in the kitchen, ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

Lichens are nearly everywhere — odd growths that appear as crusty patches and splotches on tree trunks, limbs ... plantlike structure composed of a fungus and an alga — or sometimes a ...

The fungus gets into trees through damage like ... grass and other vegetation at least 2 feet away from the trunk of the tree; make clean pruning cuts; and promptly clean up broken branch stubs ...