Bay Nature’s 2023 Holiday Activity Guide
Explore the seasonal wonders of Bay Area parks, bays, and coastline.
Tag: fungi
Bay Nature’s Hall of Botanical Horrors
For those who dare—meet the Bay Area’s spookiest plants (and two freaky fungi).
Naturalist’s Notebook: A Plant That Relies on a Mushroom
The sugarstick is a parasitic plant that relies on the Western Matsutake mushroom.
Listen Closely, the Trees are Talking
When people say that trees "talk" to each other, that's a concept that rests, in part, on an extraordinary and microscopic relationship between arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and the roots of...
Why Do Mushrooms Return to the Same Place?
Do mushrooms require a certain kind of substrate?
As Temperatures Change, What Organisms Move North to California?
What are some the biological consequences of climate change in Northern California?
Should I Worry About Death Cap Mushrooms in California?
A mycologist's perspective on the spread of a deadly poisonous mushroom across the United States.
When a Plant Dies, Where Do the Nutrients in its Cells Go?
Plants make all other life on Earth possible. But most animals don't eat dead plants -- so how do the nutrients plants create get into the environment when the plant...
How Can You Tell a True Turkey Tail from an Imposter?
Bracket fungi, named for their shelf-like structure, can often be seen fanned out of decaying wood. How can you identify them?
Planet Fungi
Culinary uses aside, fungi have their own aesthetic appeal: the spectral elegance of the amanitas, the vivid reds and greens of the waxy caps.
