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⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Lykyn editorial A great mushroom ragout is what happens when you stop treating mushrooms as a side note and let them be the main event. The dish is essentially a slow-cooked, deeply seasoned mushroom stew,...

⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Lykyn editorial A mushroom in the tree is almost always a sign of internal wood decay, but not every tree mushroom means the tree is dying. Some species are aggressive parasites that attack living wood....

⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Lawn mushrooms are usually a sign of healthy soil, not a problem. They appear after rain, often overnight, and most disappear within a few days on their own. The trouble is that some...

⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Kikurage mushroom is the dark, rubbery, slightly translucent mushroom you find floating in a bowl of ramen or hot and sour soup. The Japanese name kikurage literally translates to tree jellyfish, and the...

⏱ 5 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Japanese mushroom is a category, not a single species. Japan is one of the world's mushroom capitals, both in cultivation and in culinary tradition, and the country grows and uses more than a...

⏱ 7 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Making mushroom tea at home is simpler than most people expect. The hardest part is patience: a proper mushroom tea is a slow extraction, not a quick steep. Once you understand the difference...

⏱ 4 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide Coral mushrooms look like a piece of underwater reef pulled out of the forest floor. They grow in branching clusters of finger-like or antler-like stalks in shades of white, cream, yellow, pink, purple,...

⏱ 4 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide You can technically eat many mushrooms raw, but the better question is whether you should. The honest answer for almost every species sold at a grocery store or grown at home is no,...

⏱ 4 min read 🔬 Mushroom guide The short answer is yes, mushrooms can grow on living animals, but the cases where it actually happens are rare, specific, and biologically fascinating. Most fungi that infect living animals never form a...