Citizen scientists have helped shed light on a "humungous fungus" that can kill off common plants. The honey fungus often appears at the start of autumn, when honey-coloured toadstools appear on ...

"It is always around the 15th October that, seemingly out of nowhere, the honey fungus suddenly appears in the woods. I am always very excited at the sight of a colony, still with closed caps ...

This luminous wood is created through the interaction of the fungus Desarmillaria tabescens, also known as the ringless honey fungus, with non-living wood. The project is led by fungal researcher ...