BONNER – Just when you thought the only color left in the woods was the bright yellow of larch trees and the bright orange of big-game hunters, look down. This fall, western Montana has ...

Hunting for Texas’s Prettiest Purple Mushroom The wood blewit has a lovely lavender hue and, oddly enough, is said to smell like frozen orange juice. It also tastes great in a breakfast taco.

TUCSON, Ariz. (KGUN) — The University of Arizona is crediting one of its students for discovering a rare, purple mushroom on Mount Lemmon. Caitlin Dowd, senior studying geology, found the rare ...

University of Arizona senior Caitlin Dowd found a bright purple mushroom in the Mount Lemmon area. The species is rare; Dowd learned that her discovery was one of only four ...

The genus Cortinarius represents one of the most species‐rich and taxonomically challenging groups of mushroom‐forming fungi, with thousands of species distributed across diverse ecosystems.

An ectomycorrhizal Cortinarius mushroom growing in a forest in Colombia. This is an example of a species that has been identified -- a rarity based on the findings of this review.

An ectomycorrhizal Cortinarius mushroom growing in a forest in Colombia. This is an example of a species that has been identified -- a rarity based on the findings of this review. Mycorrhizal ...