Avenal state prison in northern California’s San Joaquin Valley

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Carluccio's fresh chanterelle mushrooms go wild in the country for pounds 24 a kilogram

Treasure of the birch forest

This autumn, conditions are particularly good for mushrooms. Daniel Butler offers a guide to finding the tasty cep, or 'porcino'. Photograph: John Miller/GPL

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The St George's est arrive! But without more rain, this may not be a good year for the strong and meaty wild mushroom.

Famine has its chips with suicidal potato

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Rare puff ball back on Earth

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Twentieth-century foxes - and a hedgehog

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Peter Jordan: mushroom man; Now is the time to discover wild fungi

"Warm, damp weather brings the fruiting bodies we call mushrooms to the surface in their thousands. If you want to look for them, you couldn't pick a better month than September."

Grapevine: Make room for mushroom

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Mushroom centenarians have a thoroughly rotten time

For a mycologist, even a yellowbrain fungus can be an object of great beauty. Esther Leach reports

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Nicholas Schoon argues that we should not try to conserve every plant and animal species
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