Old tradition finds new life as Germans flock to forests to collect mushrooms

POTSDAM, Germany (AP) — Wolfgang Bivour carefully emptied a basket of freshly collected mushrooms onto a forest floor covered with fallen autumn leaves. Brown-capped porcini and bay boletes lay beside ...

Hiker finds alien-looking fungus on Dartmoor - and soon learns why it is called 'the stinkhorn'

Known as Octopus Stinkhorn and the Devil's fingers fungus, it is native to New Zealand and Australia and made its way over to ...