Bright red toadstools, funky jelly fungus, and rounded puffball mushrooms in lawn grass may look alarming. However, lawn mushrooms can be a sign that you have healthy soil; they help lawns grow better ...

A few years ago a reader sent me an email about identifying a mushroom in his lawn. These mushrooms were popping up in the lawn in clusters, just as I had in my yard a few weeks ago. The reader said ...

Walking out to his yard over the past three weeks, Tyler resident Jon Seal noticed the abundance white-capped domes contrasting against his green grass. East Texas residents, like Seal, are still ...

Circles of white mushrooms, or “fairy rings,” may add a whimsical touch to summer lawns. But beware — they’re probably poisonous. Brian Shaw, Ph.D., professor and associate department head for ...

I was taking a walk in my neighborhood and noticed that several of my neighbors had various mushrooms growing in their lawns. Mushrooms, sometimes called toadstools, are the visible reproductive ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Getty Images I grew up in Western North Carolina seeing plenty of mushrooms around the yard, picked them to be umbrellas for my ...

GAINESVILLE - Summer is here in Florida, and that means one thing for fungi identification expert Matt Smith. “More mushrooms, and more questions about mushrooms,” said Smith, an associate professor ...

Before you start plucking out all the fungi you can find in your yard, it’s helpful to know why mushrooms fruit. It starts with the mycelium, a web of filaments that lives under the soil that “fruits” ...

Q: We’ve had a lot of rain this year, and our yard is filled with a variety of mushrooms. How can we identify those that could poison our dogs, and how will we know if our dogs ate them? A: Animal ...