Mycologist David Arora used to live in Santa Cruz and travel to Mendocino County for rainy season mushroom hunting, but now he lives where the action is. The Chronicle shares his eclectic and fireplace-filled (he has 5) house with us. Of course there are baskets for collecting mushrooms, a mushroom sculpture, stashes of dried mushrooms, but he also has a wall full of Pu-erh tea cakes he’s collected from his visits to Yunnan, China (“the world’s largest exporter of wild mushrooms”). Arora uses one of his fireplaces to grill his wild mushroom finds.