Christian Schwarz, co-author of “Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast”

Christian Schwarz is a mushroom enthusiast and taxonomist and citizen science advocate from Santa Cruz, the land of milk (caps) and honey (mushrooms). He studied at UCSC, and now spends his time photographing, teaching about, and making scientific collections of macrofungi. He is co-author of “Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast”, and is slowly building a mycoflora for Santa Cruz County.  He also writes a blog called Notes of a Mycophile.