Peter Baumgarten was looking for centimeter-tall mushrooms when he spotted a cluster of orange caps on a rotting log. A few warm, rainy days had encouraged mushrooms to emerge in Canada’s McLean’s Park, a forest on Ontario’s Manitoulin Island where he regularly walks his dog. At six feet two inches tall, Baumgarten could easily walk past mushrooms that small if he weren’t specifically looking for them.

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