Here in New England, the weather seems to be morphing into something resembling your Pacific Northwest. Rain, rain and more rain! I've been walking the dogs every day on woodsy trails and I've never seen such variety and quantity of mushrooms before. I started trying to look up and learn about some of them just as the weather was turning cold and the season was ending. The 1st absolutely positively edible mushroom flush that I found was a big cluster of chicken of the woods, which I referred to a friend of mine who forages about so he could snag some; he also found his 1st bolete in the same general area, which is a mixed forest of maybe 20% conifers. We've seen (small) lions mane and bears head in our travels, but didn't know at the time what they were; a mistake I won't repeat next year! I've also seen a bunch of what could possibly be pine or matsutake mushrooms, but could also be abortive entalomas (spelling?). I'll have to go check them out next year with someone more knowledgeable! Theres no shortage of Chicken of the Woods around here, 'I've seen cold-degraded flushes in a half dozen areas, which I have committed to memory. By the way, my 25 lb Cairn terrier heads right into the muddy wet pools like your lab does, but my 120 lb Anatolian Shepherd has the trail instincts of a pack mule and walks around the puddles on whatever dry ground or stepping stones he can find in order to avoid getting his feet wet!
Haha gotta love dogs! Sounds like a good place to forage! The myco-flora in new england is mush like that of Europe. Lots of the mushrooms have ectomycorrhizal connections with oak, where in my neck of the woods wild Oak is practically non-existent. A lot of the hardwood loving species(saprobes) like the alder that grows here, and most mycorrhizal mushrooms associate with conifers. We also have a couple species of COW here that seem partial to summer and early fall. Happy foraging!🍄
Well I’m always planting mushrooms all over woods, if I find bad ones too old ,can’t eat I spread them all around, also after I clean mushrooms home I collect all discard pieces and bring back to forest , from one to another.
Thanks for the awesome video! I’m taking a fungi class at school right now and definitely came in with a lot of fungi-phobia. Watching you forage and interact with the mushrooms is super helpful for being convinced that they’re really not dangerous to interact with.
Thank you! Fun video like always Love the background story with grandma teaching you mushroom "ways" I wish I had had that. But, I'm having a blast learning, so thank you for passing on these little bits of mushy knowledge
Really enjoy your vids, I too live in the PNW, Sandy MT. Hood area. I'm just starting to learn the mushi's. So thanks for the ID info, it's definitely helped me along the way. 👍
I love this video! Love to hear about how your grandparents taught you so much about mushrooms and sparked your interest. Your videos have totally helped me gain a better grasp on identification and have a little more confidence in the field. I found my first matsutakes after watching your video about them on your other channel. And yes, the smell of matsutake is unforgettable. I notice the "cinnamon" red hot smell gets stronger once they've been in a paper bag for the day. Thanks for the vids. Keep em coming!
Another greatly informative video. I actually picked a Russula yesterday, just did the taste test when you did it in this video and it was peppery and hot on the tongue, so I was right there with you. First time I’ve ever done that kind of test. Heading out in a few hrs this morning to try a new spot!
Great channel! Have you noticed that any species are appearing late this year? I like to check wood chip beds; what's going on there seems to be a good indicator for mushrooms in general. But lots of those seems to have been a bit sparse till just recently. In moister woods things seem to be pretty much on schedule though.
You are hilarious! Love your spore spreading technique! Great video. I’m in southern Ontario. We’ve had a fabulous mushroom season and I hope to see a few more. Although most are covered up by the leaf litter now.
Super awesome! I was discouraged by the crazy amount of rain we’ve been getting and was hoping November wasn’t going to be too late. Matsutake! Wow! I’m heading out to the ONF tomorrow and hope to find some not too water logged mushrooms. Hopefully edible but at least a good hike. Keep up the great stuff
Hey this great stuff! I also live in the PNW and forage mushrooms .There are often too many varieties to comprehend out there but these type of videos help close the gap like no others I've seen. Thankyou keep this up please.Every week is a whole new flush of new varieties! Some cooking suggestions or content would be cool and I'm sure wouldn't hurt your channel.(how would you cook that shrimp russala?) Thanks
I'm thoroughly enjoying (and also "liking") your videos Aaron. I just discovered your videos this Fall, and I have viewed virtually all of them with grateful pleasure. I believe Adam Haritan is one of the best RUclips presenters on the topic of mushroom identification and foraging, but your videos are more geographically relevant to me as I live on the Olympic Peninsula. Moreover, I feel you have the potential to garner as large of a following as Haritan has developed. I like the impression of an impromptu outing I get from your videos where we are following along with you and your dog as you discuss the finds on the spot as they are encountered. (I think a small tripod would improve the steadiness and focus of the closeup shots where you picture the specimens in detail. It would certainly free your other hand for pointing out features, perhaps with a knife tip?) To me, the videos wherein you also enter the kitchen to prepare meals with the foraged mushrooms are like bonus editions. Even the comment you made in this video about how you enjoy Matsutakes in roasts adds interest for me. Being a "meat and potatoes" old fart, I'm not particularly a fan of Japanese cuisine; so, I am interested in alternative means of preparing Matsutake. I found my first Matsutake a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, even though it was still fully veiled, it was wormy; so out to the woods behind my house it went--perhaps a spore from the severed cap will find a suitable home amongst the thirty year-old Douglas fir plantation. I would like to suggest, and request, that you offer a little more information regarding the field identification of the mushrooms you feature in your videos. I forage for and pick several species for my own consumption; and I share some of safest of those, such as Cantharellus formosus, with neighbors. While I notice many features of the mushrooms you video and discuss, such as presence or absence of a veil ring, spacing of gills and etc., I think it would be helpful to novices such as me if you specifically discussed those identifying features a little more consistently. I realize that you are not a professional mycologist, which you have responsively disclosed in previous videos. However, with rare exceptions*, the pros are not producing entertaining and informative videos for popular consumption. * In one example Paul Stamets posted a RUclips video a year ago wherein he found, identified, harvested and cooked Laetiporus conifericola.
Thanks for your input and support. I also enjoy learn your land with Adam Herritan, he knows a ton about mushrooms! I'm just doing my own style, and having fun. I certainly have several triponds but it just takes a lot of time to set it all up and everything. As I do videos that spotlight a single species I tend to take more time with production, but with the simple foray videos it's just easier to walk through the woods with my cell phone, same with cooking. I'm very busy between my regular daytime job and family so it's hard to set up cameras and film everything that I cook and whatnot. But as the channel continues to grow I will no doubt change my content up a little bit, improve my production value, and if I start making enough money from RUclips the video production quality will go way up. Thanks again for watching!!!🍄🍄🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 Thanks Aaron, I'm looking forward to more. By the way, do you happen to know if Laccaria amethystina, commonly known as the amethyst deceiver, has been reported on the Olympic Peninsula? I was in old second growth in the park two weeks ago when I encountered mushrooms fruiting in thick mossy grown (not on wood unless buried) that sure looked like the example photos I find online.
Maybe just visit in November? It is a nice place to live if interested in mushrooms. Well, overall there is a lot of good, but about February the gray skies every day for months can get tiresome.😸
If you ever come to the capitol state forest near grays harbor/thurston county area, my guy and I have found some great spots with a good variety of mushrooms!
The first Russell I ever saw I was just amazed at the size! I didn’t know anything at all back then, but I think it, and some sulfur tufts I saw that same year got me really interested in learning more. I am yet to find anything I feel confident to eat, but it is so interesting. I left that original russula hoping more would appear the next year. They did not but I had a big flush in a completely different area this year. I didn’t see them in time , they were all melted. Right now I have an Amanita mascara, unknown variety that I am observing, day three.
I found my first patch of Russula’s today and like you, could not believe how big they were! Two were still in good shape so having them for dinner (After checking 3 different sources to confirm they were edible!) Thank you Aaron for another great video!
Hi, i just foundation ur Chanel and it seems so relaxing and entertaining. Right now Im doing a nightshift where i sleep at work and i felt like ur videos are helping me relax and go Down from stress, thank you! Merry Christmas!!!!
Like your style bro. You do stuff like I would do It’s really hard for me to find a group here in Louisiana to learn more abt the shroons So thanks for your channel
You might want to check out the Gulf States Mycological Society as well as the New Orleans Mycological Society. You could be on your first foray as soon as next month or sooner 🍄✌️
I don't at this time but I do guide some forage trips for Kitsap Peninsula mycological society, I'm not sure what area you are in but good idea to join the club! 🍄
Hope your doing alright, I know you guys got a bunch of rain ( too much ) yesterday. I’m pretty jelly of all that moisture though as we are suuuper dry out here in S. Colorodo 😪 ✌️🍄
Yes we've been getting pounded by storm after storm, but it is good. The mushrooms are loving that, but this morning it's clear and frosty so they probably aren't liking that so much.
@@mushroomwonderland1 So glad to hear you're ok.🙏🙏 Yeah, our friends def don't appreciate those frost blast. It can completely stop the mycelium from producing our fav fruits. Dude, those mats are pretty terrific . Don't worry about those haters leaving comments, they are helping the algorithm move in your fav, but do continue to educate them😂 Another great video and thanks for sharing those family stories✌️
Does picking an apple hurt the tree? Rhetorical question of course, because I too get tired of all the criticism in the comment sections that is often thrown at producers of mushrooming videos. That said, I do think there is one harvesting method that likely does harm mycelia. I'm speaking of those who randomly rake the forest duff under Douglas fir trees in their efforts to find truffles without the aid of a truffle-sniffing animal such as a dog or pig. I'd like to hear your opinion Aaron.
I agree ..I have seen people raking for lobster mushroom, made me cringe. I'm definitely going to produce a video about safe harvesting techniques and Forest conservation, but probably went mushroom season slowed down and I need content to make videos during the slow season. Thanks for following! 🍄
Back in the late 90s and 00's we used to go out with some Vietnamese neighbors and get a personal batch, but they made enough to buy a decent house send their kid to college, keep nice cars in the driveway. So, yea, I think they got a bit more than 20 a lb. Lol! But who knows.
Really Enjoying Your Vids. Please, could You avoid the confusion when You say "Inedible Mushroom" versus "An Edible Mushroom"? My Hearing cannot distinguish the difference reliably. Maybe say "This is a Gourmet Edible" or "This is an Enjoyable Edible" - Then Context tells Me/Us Which it is. You would not say "This is Wonderful Inedible"...Thanks so Much. I am in Gig Harbor, and Learning about what is here in the Glorious PNW. Joined the Kitsap Myco group on Your Recommendation.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback. I'll try to keep that in mind! I see how that could be hard to distinguish-but it is often important to make the distinction between inedible and poisonous, some are just unpalatable or of a tough consistency but not toxic. 🍄🍄
The tree is dead before the oysters can grow. They are saprotrophic, meaning they eat dead matter, rather than a parasite. So they are doing the forest a service by composting the tree from the inside out!🍄
I have picking matzutake for over 55 years. I'm sorry but they are actually called amallaria ponderosa pine or( Japanese pine mushroom) I am an third generation Japanese American
Oh and that is volcanic ash layed down by previous eruption nearby! They seem to just love that type of soil with a nice duff layer!
I’ve just found you! Lucky me! Thank you for your commitment to engaging with those of us hunting for education and like minded people 🙏🏼
I love that your Grandma helped cultivate your mushroom passion! I hope to do the same with my grandson! Another great video!
Thank you! We never know who we can affect with our interests!🍄
Just found my first Matsutake on Whidbey… your rainy walk inspired me to go out this morning. So many mushrooms right now!
Here in New England, the weather seems to be morphing into something resembling your Pacific Northwest. Rain, rain and more rain! I've been walking the dogs every day on woodsy trails and I've never seen such variety and quantity of mushrooms before. I started trying to look up and learn about some of them just as the weather was turning cold and the season was ending. The 1st absolutely positively edible mushroom flush that I found was a big cluster of chicken of the woods, which I referred to a friend of mine who forages about so he could snag some; he also found his 1st bolete in the same general area, which is a mixed forest of maybe 20% conifers. We've seen (small) lions mane and bears head in our travels, but didn't know at the time what they were; a mistake I won't repeat next year! I've also seen a bunch of what could possibly be pine or matsutake mushrooms, but could also be abortive entalomas (spelling?). I'll have to go check them out next year with someone more knowledgeable! Theres no shortage of Chicken of the Woods around here, 'I've seen cold-degraded flushes in a half dozen areas, which I have committed to memory. By the way, my 25 lb Cairn terrier heads right into the muddy wet pools like your lab does, but my 120 lb Anatolian Shepherd has the trail instincts of a pack mule and walks around the puddles on whatever dry ground or stepping stones he can find in order to avoid getting his feet wet!
Haha gotta love dogs! Sounds like a good place to forage! The myco-flora in new england is mush like that of Europe. Lots of the mushrooms have ectomycorrhizal connections with oak, where in my neck of the woods wild Oak is practically non-existent. A lot of the hardwood loving species(saprobes) like the alder that grows here, and most mycorrhizal mushrooms associate with conifers. We also have a couple species of COW here that seem partial to summer and early fall. Happy foraging!🍄
Well I’m always planting mushrooms all over woods, if I find bad ones too old ,can’t eat I spread them all around, also after I clean mushrooms home I collect all discard pieces and bring back to forest , from one to another.
I love your family heritage of mushroom foraging and your channel. Gunner is pretty cute too; gotta love a good forest dog
There's so much about mushrooms and fungi that we still need to discover🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
Thank you for doing what you do! Keep up the great work! Always looking forward to your next video!
Thanks for the awesome video! I’m taking a fungi class at school right now and definitely came in with a lot of fungi-phobia. Watching you forage and interact with the mushrooms is super helpful for being convinced that they’re really not dangerous to interact with.
Thank you! Fun video like always
Love the background story with grandma teaching you mushroom "ways"
I wish I had had that. But, I'm having a blast learning, so thank you for passing on these little bits of mushy knowledge
Yes, the russula chuck check! It's a standard procedure! I like your videos keep it up brother!
Great video! Cracked me up watching you spit out the mushroom LOL
Really enjoy your vids, I too live in the PNW, Sandy MT. Hood area. I'm just starting to learn the mushi's. So thanks for the ID info, it's definitely helped me along the way. 👍
Great vid, as always! Keep them coming 🍄
I love this video! Love to hear about how your grandparents taught you so much about mushrooms and sparked your interest. Your videos have totally helped me gain a better grasp on identification and have a little more confidence in the field. I found my first matsutakes after watching your video about them on your other channel. And yes, the smell of matsutake is unforgettable. I notice the "cinnamon" red hot smell gets stronger once they've been in a paper bag for the day. Thanks for the vids. Keep em coming!
Thanks for letting us see what it looks like chewed up.
I had to follow after the russula chuck .. learning a lot looking forward to the next vid
Another greatly informative video. I actually picked a Russula yesterday, just did the taste test when you did it in this video and it was peppery and hot on the tongue, so I was right there with you. First time I’ve ever done that kind of test. Heading out in a few hrs this morning to try a new spot!
Good luck!
Great channel!
Have you noticed that any species are appearing late this year? I like to check wood chip beds; what's going on there seems to be a good indicator for mushrooms in general. But lots of those seems to have been a bit sparse till just recently. In moister woods things seem to be pretty much on schedule though.
I really enjoy your videos!! Thanks for sharing as always
You are hilarious! Love your spore spreading technique! Great video. I’m in southern Ontario. We’ve had a fabulous mushroom season and I hope to see a few more. Although most are covered up by the leaf litter now.
Wow! So cool and very informative. Thx for sharing ur knowledge and stories!
Super awesome! I was discouraged by the crazy amount of rain we’ve been getting and was hoping November wasn’t going to be too late. Matsutake! Wow! I’m heading out to the ONF tomorrow and hope to find some not too water logged mushrooms. Hopefully edible but at least a good hike. Keep up the great stuff
Found my 1st matsutake yesterday. Wife found the 1st and it was on after that haha. Only found a few but still, exciting none the less.
@@your_eulogy2688 super cool! I'm still searching. I was clear for a few hours today and got a lot of winter chanterelle, but no matsutake :(
Thanks for the video buddy!! Very informative I really wish to learn more.
Hey this great stuff! I also live in the PNW and forage mushrooms .There are often too many varieties to comprehend out there but these type of videos help close the gap like no others I've seen. Thankyou keep this up please.Every week is a whole new flush of new varieties! Some cooking suggestions or content would be cool and I'm sure wouldn't hurt your channel.(how would you cook that shrimp russala?)
Thanks
Stellar videos!! Always super informative. Thanks!!
I love your videos they are so educational. i Agree that education and enthusiasm starts from deep roots in the family. Please keep teaching us
I'm thoroughly enjoying (and also "liking") your videos Aaron. I just discovered your videos this Fall, and I have viewed virtually all of them with grateful pleasure.
I believe Adam Haritan is one of the best RUclips presenters on the topic of mushroom identification and foraging, but your videos are more geographically relevant to me as I live on the Olympic Peninsula. Moreover, I feel you have the potential to garner as large of a following as Haritan has developed. I like the impression of an impromptu outing I get from your videos where we are following along with you and your dog as you discuss the finds on the spot as they are encountered. (I think a small tripod would improve the steadiness and focus of the closeup shots where you picture the specimens in detail. It would certainly free your other hand for pointing out features, perhaps with a knife tip?)
To me, the videos wherein you also enter the kitchen to prepare meals with the foraged mushrooms are like bonus editions. Even the comment you made in this video about how you enjoy Matsutakes in roasts adds interest for me. Being a "meat and potatoes" old fart, I'm not particularly a fan of Japanese cuisine; so, I am interested in alternative means of preparing Matsutake. I found my first Matsutake a couple weeks ago. Unfortunately, even though it was still fully veiled, it was wormy; so out to the woods behind my house it went--perhaps a spore from the severed cap will find a suitable home amongst the thirty year-old Douglas fir plantation.
I would like to suggest, and request, that you offer a little more information regarding the field identification of the mushrooms you feature in your videos. I forage for and pick several species for my own consumption; and I share some of safest of those, such as Cantharellus formosus, with neighbors. While I notice many features of the mushrooms you video and discuss, such as presence or absence of a veil ring, spacing of gills and etc., I think it would be helpful to novices such as me if you specifically discussed those identifying features a little more consistently. I realize that you are not a professional mycologist, which you have responsively disclosed in previous videos. However, with rare exceptions*, the pros are not producing entertaining and informative videos for popular consumption.
* In one example Paul Stamets posted a RUclips video a year ago wherein he found, identified, harvested and cooked Laetiporus conifericola.
Thanks for your input and support. I also enjoy learn your land with Adam Herritan, he knows a ton about mushrooms! I'm just doing my own style, and having fun. I certainly have several triponds but it just takes a lot of time to set it all up and everything. As I do videos that spotlight a single species I tend to take more time with production, but with the simple foray videos it's just easier to walk through the woods with my cell phone, same with cooking. I'm very busy between my regular daytime job and family so it's hard to set up cameras and film everything that I cook and whatnot. But as the channel continues to grow I will no doubt change my content up a little bit, improve my production value, and if I start making enough money from RUclips the video production quality will go way up.
Thanks again for watching!!!🍄🍄🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 Thanks Aaron, I'm looking forward to more. By the way, do you happen to know if Laccaria amethystina, commonly known as the amethyst deceiver, has been reported on the Olympic Peninsula? I was in old second growth in the park two weeks ago when I encountered mushrooms fruiting in thick mossy grown (not on wood unless buried) that sure looked like the example photos I find online.
These videos make me want to move to the Pacific North West! I live in a desert, so sadly I hardly ever see wild mushrooms.
Maybe just visit in November? It is a nice place to live if interested in mushrooms. Well, overall there is a lot of good, but about February the gray skies every day for months can get tiresome.😸
Dig your channel man! Watching your process in IDing is super helpful for my own forays!
Thank you! I just subscribed!
Thank you for the Matsutake tips! Still looking for my first one, hopefully, will find some this season
To think I've been accidentally running those over with my mountain bike in Banner Forest. Now that I know, I'll keep my eyes peeled. Thanks!
😂
If you ever come to the capitol state forest near grays harbor/thurston county area, my guy and I have found some great spots with a good variety of mushrooms!
New subscriber 🍄🍄🍄🍄 I love all fungi 🍄🍄🍄🍄🍄
Nice job explaining them god bless .
У нас наша прабабушка были из Италии, и она показала нам, как искать трюфели!)) - Троллинг. I live in Portland.
You have a blessed life.
The first Russell I ever saw I was just amazed at the size! I didn’t know anything at all back then, but I think it, and some sulfur tufts I saw that same year got me really interested in learning more. I am yet to find anything I feel confident to eat, but it is so interesting. I left that original russula hoping more would appear the next year. They did not but I had a big flush in a completely different area this year. I didn’t see them in time , they were all melted. Right now I have an Amanita mascara, unknown variety that I am observing, day three.
I found my first patch of Russula’s today and like you, could not believe how big they were! Two were still in good shape so having them for dinner (After checking 3 different sources to confirm they were edible!) Thank you Aaron for another great video!
Hi, i just foundation ur Chanel and it seems so relaxing and entertaining. Right now Im doing a nightshift where i sleep at work and i felt like ur videos are helping me relax and go Down from stress, thank you! Merry Christmas!!!!
That is great to hear! Thanks for joining 🍄🍄🍄
Thanks for another great video Aaron!!
I find that the "peppery" taste to the russula is more of a slight burning sensation.
Like your style bro. You do stuff like I would do It’s really hard for me to find a group here in Louisiana to learn more abt the shroons So thanks for your channel
You might want to check out the Gulf States Mycological Society as well as the New Orleans Mycological Society. You could be on your first foray as soon as next month or sooner 🍄✌️
@@honeyvitagliano3227 thanks for the reply bro. But New Orleans ? Not my kinda spot. Thanks again bro
Can't wait for the fall!
I have a spot I go through at least once a week between Cannon beach and seaside we seem to be in the exact same environment
Do you offer live classes? New to mushrooming. Great video!
I don't at this time but I do guide some forage trips for Kitsap Peninsula mycological society, I'm not sure what area you are in but good idea to join the club! 🍄
Mushroom Wonderland I am nearby. Are you on LinkedIn?
Hope your doing alright, I know you guys got a bunch of rain ( too much ) yesterday.
I’m pretty jelly of all that moisture though as we are suuuper dry out here in S. Colorodo 😪
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Yes we've been getting pounded by storm after storm, but it is good. The mushrooms are loving that, but this morning it's clear and frosty so they probably aren't liking that so much.
@@mushroomwonderland1
So glad to hear you're ok.🙏🙏
Yeah, our friends def don't appreciate those frost blast. It can completely stop the mycelium from producing our fav fruits.
Dude, those mats are pretty terrific .
Don't worry about those haters leaving comments, they are helping the algorithm move in your fav, but do continue to educate them😂
Another great video and thanks for sharing those family stories✌️
What elevation are you finding matsutake at? I have yet to find my first one. Maybe because I'm used to finding that PNW gold (chanterelles).
Right around sea level, they seem to be popping up a lot lately! You'll find one, keep wandering 🍄🍄🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 I will! Thank you so much
Does picking an apple hurt the tree? Rhetorical question of course, because I too get tired of all the criticism in the comment sections that is often thrown at producers of mushrooming videos. That said, I do think there is one harvesting method that likely does harm mycelia. I'm speaking of those who randomly rake the forest duff under Douglas fir trees in their efforts to find truffles without the aid of a truffle-sniffing animal such as a dog or pig. I'd like to hear your opinion Aaron.
I agree ..I have seen people raking for lobster mushroom, made me cringe. I'm definitely going to produce a video about safe harvesting techniques and Forest conservation, but probably went mushroom season slowed down and I need content to make videos during the slow season. Thanks for following! 🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 Thanks for the reply Aaron. I'm looking forward to more videos from you.
This ☝️ talk about destructive... I'd like to rake them over a few times 😑
Awesome video!
7:16
Made me giggle can’t lie
Thank you for the lesson
Thank you
gotta love your spit takes! 😛
😂
At 13:30, people in Japan eat mushrooms from Hiroshima? That's crazy! Wouldn't those mushrooms tend to concentrate radioactive metals and isotopes?
Back in the late 90s and 00's we used to go out with some Vietnamese neighbors and get a personal batch, but they made enough to buy a decent house send their kid to college, keep nice cars in the driveway. So, yea, I think they got a bit more than 20 a lb. Lol! But who knows.
What area were you in Aaron? It looks a whole lot like my neighborhood in Mt Baker.
This is in Kitsap county, port orchard. A lot of these woods can look the same! I bet you similar mushrooms grow in the same woods you're looking.
Really Enjoying Your Vids. Please, could You avoid the confusion when You say "Inedible Mushroom" versus "An Edible Mushroom"? My Hearing cannot distinguish the difference reliably. Maybe say "This is a Gourmet Edible" or "This is an Enjoyable Edible" - Then Context tells Me/Us Which it is. You would not say "This is Wonderful Inedible"...Thanks so Much. I am in Gig Harbor, and Learning about what is here in the Glorious PNW. Joined the Kitsap Myco group on Your Recommendation.
Awesome, thanks for the feedback. I'll try to keep that in mind! I see how that could be hard to distinguish-but it is often important to make the distinction between inedible and poisonous, some are just unpalatable or of a tough consistency but not toxic. 🍄🍄
That grey ashy soil from what I hear is volcanic ash from St. Helens, well that’s the story I was told. You think that could be a true story
Big!
Did those oyster mushrooms hurt that tree.?
The tree is dead before the oysters can grow. They are saprotrophic, meaning they eat dead matter, rather than a parasite. So they are doing the forest a service by composting the tree from the inside out!🍄
Can you eat all Russulas that aren’t peppery tasting?
Yes! All mild tasting ones are edible.. Very few dangerous Russula, none deadly.
I throw mushrooms at trees also.
would love to see cookin videos
6:03 - pov of ur being spat on bc ur trash
lmfao awesome vid tho love it
I have picking matzutake for over 55 years. I'm sorry but they are actually called amallaria ponderosa pine or( Japanese pine mushroom)
I am an third generation Japanese American
As a crazy environmentalist I'm wondering why a crazy environmentalist would complain about someone spreading spores in that way? 😂 seems legit to me
And it's fun. I think everyone should try the "Russula chuck" at least once!!😂🍄
Some ppl will be mad no matter what 🥴😂🤷🏻♀️
I would love to have shrimp russulas growing in the large forested park near me!
i didnt know cedar had no fungal associates!
East or west of the Sound?
This video was filmed right pretty much in the central sound, near Port Orchard.🍄
It's official I'm number 420 likes. &()
Pluck away my friend. Educate!!!
7:18
My favorite part!!! Love it lmaoooo