Mushroom Hunting with NPR (audio)

Richard Harris, Weekend Edition Sunday (NPR News, May 23, 2021); CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly

Amateur mushroom photographer makes a big discovery

Mycelium roots mean more than mushroom fruit

A mushroom thought extinct in the United States for the past 100 years has been rediscovered by mushroom hunter Taylor X, 70, while trekking in the woods with his camera to document beautiful specimens. Does he want to be a mushroom or just act like one? It's an example of the remarkable synergy between amateur and professional mycologists (fungus aficionados) or mushroom experts. More + AUDIO