Meet the man so obsessed with mushrooms that he's dedicated his life to them.

William Padilla-Brown is a citizen scientist who taught himself to grow, cultivate and preserve mushrooms.

He is the first American to produce cordyceps, a rare orange mushroom that grows from the larvae of insects.

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