Intro to Field Mycology

An episode long demanded by you, the audience, Crime Pays But Mycology Doesn’t emerges with an intro into fundamentals of field mycology, aka “going around lurking in the woods and looking for fruiting bodies of fungi”. With the help of the friendly and kind mycologist Alan Rockefeller, we use a field trip to look for the type locality of a small saprotrophic mushroom species (Pseudobaeospora deckeri) to help explain some of the things to consider when in the field looking for mushrooms, as well as some of the more complex intricacies o genetic sequencing and differences between “old world”(European) and New World (American) species of fungi that are in the same genus. Almost all photos by Alan Rockefeller.