There are far more types of mushrooms than what you usually find in your grocery store. Consider this a visual mushroom guide to our favorites, from abalone to shiitake. Mushrooms, the fruiting bodies of edible fungi, are amazing things in the kitchen, bearers of flavor that range from nutty to…

A future where a key ingredient of psychedelic mushrooms called psilocybin is regularly used to improve our mental health is none too far off. This month, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted a “breakthrough therapy” designation to a non-profit company developing psilocybin as a treatment for clinical depression. The…

Nicknamed the "mushroom of immortality" in English, Ganoderma mushrooms are known as "reishi" in Japanese and as "lingzhi" in Chinese. Ganoderma is a group of fungi that break down wood or cause white rot on certain tree species in the environment. Humans use Ganoderma fungi to treat anything from the…

The Thirteenth Chinese Mushroom Days will take place from November the 16th until November the 19th.Canned Mushroom Capital of the World • Canned Food Capital of China • Chinese Mushroom Capital • Zhangzhou, Fujian, China Agenda Session 1: Lambert Spawn Workshop, November 15-16 Session 2：Industry exhibition of the 13th Chinese…

New research aimed at furthering understanding of mushrooms’ nutritional qualities will focus on cognitive health and mushrooms’role in healthy eating patterns With mushrooms growing in awareness and consideration among consumers nationwide, the Mushroom Council is making a $1.5 million investment in research to help broaden understanding of the food’s nutritional…

picture: Only 71 species out of over 100,000 described species of fungi glow. Glowing in the dark costs energy. So why do mushrooms bioluminescence? To answer this question, researchers from Brazil and the U.S. focused on the pale green light emitted from fungi. They had a hunch that the light…