Join us at Mount Rainier Nature Center at 10am to bring your mushroom samples or at 1pm to ask questions about our process or anything fungi. Our experts are excited to see you! 

Mount Rainier Nature Center is located at 4701 31st Place, Mount Rainier MD, 20712

If you are bringing samples to us, please ensure that the samples have been properly documented on iNaturalist, and that each of your samples has a unique iNaturalist observation number by the time of your arrival. Follow the process below to make your observation:

PHOTOGRAPH BEFORE DETACHING!

• Take more than one picture
• Show where the fungus is  growing from (substrate)
• • If attached to something living, identify as much as possible. Ex: conifer, deciduous, oak, american holly, etc.
• Photograph the habit (growing alone, gregarious, in clusters, etc.)
• Take a picture from the top

DETACH

• Take a picture of the underside
• Cut through the spore producing surface and notice if there are changes in color or secretion of latex. If so annotate and photograph
• Add any smell or bruising you observe in the section notes