Stu Pickell

CA FUNDIS Collector
North Hollywood, CA

A Southern California native, Stu became interested in foraging edible mushrooms while attending school in Portland, Oregon. After later moving to Los Angeles, his attention turned from edibles to photography of tiny fungi and slime molds. He now spends much of his time searching for fungi in the chaparral shrublands that are so characteristic of the Southern California landscape, an often-overlooked fungal habitat that is constantly revealing surprises.

Outside of FUNDIS and other fungi-related activities, Stu works as an engineer on NASA's Deep Space Network.