Pick up a button mushroom from the supermarket and it squishes easily between your fingers. Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow ...

Mushroom trees generally don't grow incredibly tall, so players who want to build this one will need to find and harvest a lot of them. However, most Mushroom Fields have several, even if that ...

The two mushrooms tested include the maitake, left, and the button mushroom. Lance Cheung/USDA and edenpictures/Flickr , CC BY But chemistry is only half the story.

Snap a woody bracket mushroom off a tree trunk and you’ll struggle to break it. Both extremes grow from the same microscopic building blocks: hyphae – hair-thin tubes made mostly of the natural ...