Close-ups of inky cap mushrooms growing in the wild. - Sebastian_Photography/Shutterstock By now, you probably know the deal with mushrooms: Some of them, including ...

When I first started gardening, I used to think mushrooms meant something was going wrong. I’d be out watering the tomatoes or pulling weeds, and suddenly – poof – a strange little mushroom would ...

Editor's note -- Preface -- 1. How to use this book -- 2. Mushrooms are fungi -- 3. Mushroom poisoning -- pt. 1. Non-gilled mushrooms -- 4. Sac fungi : Ascomycetes -- Miscellaneous sac and cup fungi - ...

The inky cap mushroom, or Coprinopsis atramentaria, is a small, unassuming mushroom until it starts to mature or is picked, at which point it begins to dissolve into black ichor. Its flavor is quite ...