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If you're keen to try your hand at foraging, wild mushrooms grow throughout the year, but autumn offers the most abundant and varied seasonal eating. From late summer until the first frost ...

"Mushrooms are not plants," said Amy Honan, who teaches mycology and fungal ecology at Oregon State University. "Fungi are more closely related to animals than they are to plants." Plants make ...

Cultivated fresh mushrooms are available all year. Wild mushrooms are at their peak in autumn although some, such as morels, are found in spring. Dried mushrooms are available all year round.