Fungi and trees have shared a close-knit relationship for millions of years thanks to mycelium, which forms networks around trees' roots, communicating and transferring nutrients between them.

Two species of fungi new to the UK and another previously unknown to science have been discovered in the Cairngorms. Amanita groenlandica is an Arctic species, while Acrodontium Antarcticum was ...

The Berkshire, Buckinghamshire & Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust (BBOWT) said changing weather patterns and extreme rain made 2024 ...

The team of Russian, Vietnamese and French researchers who discovered the Cao Bang Crocodile newt, as they suggest its common ... fungi produce a fishy odour and that the genus includes species ...

It may be many years before the fungi species are established, but, if successful, these methods could be rolled out across more sites. Receive a weekly dose of discovery in your inbox!

the researchers compared survival rates of rare and common tree species to show that the interaction of different functional soil fungi determines how trees coexist. Published in Science in 2019 ...