Unusual weather has created the ideal conditions for fungus, delighting foragers and researchers
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Left: Miley Diaz, Rudy Diaz’s mother and member of the LA Mycological Society, in Cleveland national forest. Right: The LA Mycological Society’s treasures from a morning of hunting for mushrooms in Cleveland national forest.FunDis has enlisted mushroom hunters from across the state to explore permitted lands and make high-quality, well-documented collections of macrofungi, which are dried and sampled for DNA sequencing.
“The ‘shroom boom’ in media and pop culture has aligned with this huge ecological mushroom boom for southern California where all of this interest in mushrooms comes at a very opportune moment,” Diaz says, adding that the mycological society’s membership has shot up this year. “There are people with this craving to learn, but we’re only able to offer as much as the rain can give.
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