FFSC News & Stories

We had a great foray last Saturday on our foray! A big thanks to the all the great folks who participated!

I have always wondered how many mushroom species it would be possible to see in one day in Santa Cruz County. Since this fall has been so exceptionally fruitful for mushrooms, I decided to give it a go… How else to find out?

A  great group of people attended the Habitat Walk this last Saturday.  These hearty mushroom enthusiasts were greeted with early rain, muddy conditions…

Most of us know many species of fungi form mycorrhyzal relatonships with plants... but it hasn't always been clear what exactly they are doing and who is benefiting from this relationship.

This beautiful little mushroom isn't a mushroom at all.  It is Dendrogramma enigmaticaI, a newly named organism from the deep seas near Australia and it may be rewriting evolutionary history.  Well named...It is in fact an enigma!

Rules for mushroom gathering at Jackson Demonstration State Forest have recently changed.