Gallery: Meet the Obsessive Mushroom Hunters of New York City
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Reishi mushrooms on a stump.
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An attendee checks out lichen on a gravestone.
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Mycological Society treasurer Kay Spurlock examines a mushroom with a magnifying glass.
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Crustose lichen at the base of a gravestone.
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Reishi mushrooms (left) and Trametes versicolor collected in a folded map.
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A young attendee gets really bored.
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Mycological Society member Ethan Crenson collects Pleurotus mushrooms from inside a tree hollow.
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Photographing a Sweet Knot mushroom on a tree, a fungus so named because of its candy-like smell.
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An attendee collects their findings—so far, Grifoloa frondosa and Lepista nuda—in a basket.
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Lichens growing on a fallen branch.
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Pleurotus mushrooms within a tree hollow.
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