LOOKING for MUSHROOMS .
Armed with a magnifying glass, pocketknife, and fishing tackle box, mushroom scientist Greg Mueller sets out on a treasure hunt. “I never know what I might find,” he says, striking out along a woodland path at the Chicago Botanic Garden. “And what I find today may be different four days from now.”
After decades as a mycologist (a scientist who studies fungi), Mueller knows that mushrooms are here-today, gone-tomorrow treasures. He jokes about becoming a geologist some day, “because rocks never move.” But he isn’t really discouraged. He knows that forests are full of fungi.
