 Alan Rockefeller is a Bay Area mycologist. And then you flip it over, and instead of having these thin gills like most mushroom has, they have relatively wide gills, kind of like ridges. The mushroom lives mainly in California, is the largest type of chanterelle, and lives in a symbiotic relationship with live oak trees. To become official, this mushroom needed to find a champion within the state legislature, and it found one in Assemblymember Ash Kalra representing San Jose.