Dried leaves, bark scraps, fallen walnuts — just about everything on the forest floor looked like a morel. I was roughly 40 minutes into a forest trek to find morel mushrooms. The prized culinary ...

MINNEAPOLIS — The warm, soggy summer across much of the Midwest has produced a bumper crop of wild mushrooms — and a surge in calls to poison control centers. At the Minnesota Regional Poison Center, ...

A warm, wet summer weather means wild mushrooms are multiplying, and poison control calls are increasing. Most of those calls involve children under 5 picking or eating a mushroom that could be ...

Mushroom lovers, scrounge around your local forest. Minnesota’s widest variety of tasty wild mushrooms pop up mid-summer through fall. And with frequent rain, expect them to be prolific this year.

This year's rise in poisonous mushroom varieties in California has led to precipitous rise in illness and deaths from ...

Poison control can be reached anytime by calling 800-222-1222. Mushrooms can be delicious, and being able to find them naturally in your own community -- like you can here in Michigan -- is an extra ...