I just cooked some Deer Mushrooms for the first time. These are not only worth eating, they are damn delicious!!! Butter, garlic and a few drops of lime juice, fried crispy will blow your mind! Tastes meaty when you add lime..YUM!!
Just finished an omelette with some deer, shiitake and oysters. First time trying deer and I'm impressed, not a huge fan of radishes so I've been putting it off for a while. I'm really glad I watched this video, gave me the nudge I needed and now I have a new thing to forage. Thank you Adam
I love radishes! :) Thanks for the info Adam. Still a little nervous about brown gilled mushrooms, but I'm going to do some hunting tonight and see what I find. As always, great vid!
Hey Rick, I don't blame you for being a bit nervous. It took me a few years of learning mushrooms before trying the Deer Mushroom. We should always be cautious of gilled mushrooms with central stems... especially those that grow from the forest floor and grass. If you ever do try it, let me know what you think.
This is only my 2nd season, but with the help of several trusted books and the huge amounts of important information you share, I'm sure I will find some this year. My grandfather used to talk about Deer Mushrooms, Meadow Mushrooms and Horse Mushrooms and eating them as a child here in Wisconsin...I'm going to try to find them all! And if not, time in the woods is never wasted. I will let you know what I think when I try one, Adam. Thanks again for all the awesome info you share!
So I found deer mushrooms, every characteristic matches, except the spore print. Mine gave a bright white spore print, so I believe they are the Megacollybia Rodmani
Hello everyone. I am in northeastern Pennsylvania. I ate some Pluteus Cervinus just last week. I found it to be a fairly pleasant tasting mushroom. It's definitely not one of the best but not one of the worst either. I think it would be a nice addition to a hamburger.
You're welcome Adam. But it is the rest of us that should be saying thank you to you. You are an amazing educator. Your videos are well done, the information you share is clear, concise, and easy for the uninitiated to grasp. I'm looking forward to meeting you some day and being able to learn even more from you. Keep up the great work. We all appreciate it.
P. cervinus has turned a mostly boring mushroomless outing into a mushroom photo op. It seems most abundant in the area where I live during the very early or very late mushroom season.
Are you in the Laurel Highlands? Just wondering if I should even bother looking for Morels this weekend. The ramps seemed to come up late this year in the LH.
I live about 70 miles Northwest of the Laurel Highlands, though I love spending time there. You *may* find some Morels down there right now because of the higher elevations, though from what I've heard and experienced, the season is pretty much done all throughout Southern Pennsylvania (as of May 17th).
we mostly eating mushroom in Phillipines that is similar color and sizes of what you discuss in this vedio but if we cut the cap i noticed that the mushroom release a stain like pinkish to red like liquid, we call this mushroom in my native language o-oung.My question is? This is belong also in the variety of deer mushrooms?Please let me know,thank you.
Hey Adam. Do you have any interested in Psychoactive Mushrooms? I don't mean using them as such, but more in a curious interest sense. Do you find many on your hunts? Keep up the great vids!
Hey that's a good question. Yes, I do see them from time to time... especially during certain times of the year and in particular habitats. Western Pennsylvania has quite a few psychoactive mushroom species.
Awesome stuff. They're quite cool to come across. We have some really interesting ones here in NZ. Google "Psilocybe Weraroa" and "Psilocybe Aucklandii" both found where I live in Auckland. Very cool looking Mushrooms
you cant avoid them, Psilocybe Cubensis has this ability to "draw" one to it to examine it, to want to put it in your mouth, once you eat it you realize it WASN'T a "Mistake". It looks out of this world like from a different planet that its spore came from space and landed here, and it is a beautiful mushroom, however it tastes like crap, it was the best thing I ever ate. it will make you smarter, it will open your mind, and your life will be changed forever for the better....learn to identify it. I ate 7 med. large caps at once, and I took a trip to a far away spirit world, and the feeling after you come down is refreshed and peaceful, no hangover no bad feelings, just right on man, and the urge to do it again whenever possible. try it Rusty, you'll love it says me...I am the mushroom.
they're not deadly, they contain muscimol, (and muscarine if it's been in the heat of the sun for a while) and ibotenic acid, which are all hallucinogenic/depressant chemicals.
Thanks so much for your video. Here in Boston I just (Nov.1)found a bunch of little mushrooms growing on a bed of wood chips. I think they are in this category. Slimy at the top and brown spores print. Being cautious I tried one fried in butter and 12 hrs later I am not sick, so I am going to eat the rest. The gills are not white, though. Any ideas? thanks!
You shouldn't eat mushrooms that you can't ID with confidence. One of the the wrong little brown mushroom is plenty to destroy your liver or kill you and same definitely goes for white mushrooms. Trying one is NOT being cautious. If you survived this experiment unscathed you are lucky and should stop while your ahead.
Yes I agree one sliver of the size of a fingernail clipping could shut your liver down. And it takes more than 48 hours before you know your know it’s too late. Make sure and try to wait at least 48 hours before consuming more of same species. Old saying ( there’s no such thing as an old brave mushroom hunter)
You just verified a mushroom i have been trying to identify. My husband and I went out morel hunting a few weeks ago. I brought it home and did a spore print and googled it, looked and looked for it and there were so many I really couldnt ID it for sure. Then I went to you tube and still no actual ID. Then saw your video yesterday and this is definitely what it is. Going out to get it today😃 Thanks Adam! Sending people to your channel. Actually had on of my friends watch this video yesterday with me.
@@LearnYourLand For me to, Adam. South America also has those. Found them today. Much gills, barely any flesh and turn pinkish when mature. Found mine under a bush, kinda clustered. What I somehow identified so far: Funeral Bell, Destroying angel (going to try both as pesticide), Field mushroom, Oyster (plerotus and pink - summer), Jelly (probably judeae, elf ear). Uindentified: some litle one growing near palm trees, likely a very litle honey mushroom. Bright yellow to orange, withe gills, white sporeprint. Did put me to a deep sleep. Region: state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. Thanks
I've found these guys in western Oregon and have discovered that they have a flavor and texture strikingly similar to fried chicken skin when toasted over an open fire! 😁
As always, your mycological insight is greatly appreciated. However, the thing I liked best about this video was your comment that (to paraphrase) the best way to connect to your land is to build yourself out of ingredients found within it. So true! We all say "you are what you eat," but most of us gloss over how literally this is the case. If we all went out and nourished ourselves from our landscape more regularly, I can't help but think it would increase people's perception of value toward their land, and help do away with some of the apathy toward it. Thanks for the reminder!
I just picked two in my yard here in the San Francisco east bay area. After a little more research is is more likely to be Pluteus petasatus more common in urban areas like mine. Of interest: Several species of this genus bruise blue and contain psilocybin.....but not the one growing in my yard.......bummer.
JamesThomas they’re literally everywhere here in the Central Valley area. Very common yard mushroom..but don’t confuse it with the hallucinogenic pluteus americanus
I heard that cooking them without oil for a while first, then adding oil and caramelizing them improves the flavor. I seemed to work for me, and reduces the after taste issue. Thanks as always for the excellent video. You are a the best!
Identified 2 beautiful white mushrooms in my yard growing from stumps using google lens. Then found your video to explain more about them. We just has 2 days of rain and I found these deer mushrooms. I would enjoy cooking them up but was looking for more specific details on how to cook and how quickly to cook after removing them from the ground. Also, I've heard not to drink alcohol with some wild mushrooms so I was interested in your feedback on these inquiries. Alittle info about me, we live in rural Indiana, am an avid vegetable gardener herb fan and foodie! I also i also overwinter many of my summer plants and flowers. I hunt morels and snake heads religiously in the spring (early April - late May) and then continue foraging wild mushrooms after each rain through negative F° temps (usually Late Dec into Jan). My main experience with preparing and eating mushrooms is pan and deep frying them. YUM! So carmelizing wild mushrooms is a game changer. Tell me all the things, PLEASE! Thank you!
I've seen these, I'll get them from now on. Just ate a bunch of oyster mushrooms sauted with garlic powder, wild onions, and a little salt and pepper. Damn good.
The first mushroom I chose to forage and eat once I got a good ID! Abundant in south central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg...York) spring into summer. Love everything about your videos and all you share. Thank you
I found a mushroom very similar looking or exact look to deer mushroom, no volva, no ring, brown cap, cap 2-3 inches across, free or notched gills, grown next to dead log, but the spore print was white, and the mushroom smelled like button mushroom.
A great forage find for me I ONLY use them fried CRISP in butter and seasoned with poultry seasoning. I use them as a meatless replacement for bacon in B'Fast dishes, fried rice and as pseudo- shrimp in green papaya salads! Yumm I gather all I find! Use good ID tips and give them a chance to grow on your flavor palate.
Great video. Looking over my deck at night I thought I was seeing deer poo. Upon further examination I knew they were mushrooms. Found your video very informative. Thanks a bunch!! Quick question, I read some can have psychoactive properties. Is this true?
I find a lot of these in my little low-lying woodlot in late spring/early summer. I saute them kind of low and slow in butter or bacon fat with some garlic and a lot of onions until the moisture cooks off and they start to brown; don't notice any strange or unpleasant aftertaste that way. It's not uncommon for me to find 4-5 good-sized ones in one area, which makes for a decent size batch to cook up.
Great video, dude. Thanks a lot. Just got enough confidence to harvest pluteus cervinus for the first time, though I've seen it many times before. Will try a spore print of course, though, before any tasting, as well as, obviously it has the other morpholpgical traits mentioned. Much love from Transylvania! ✌🦇🐻
I love them for B'fast seasoned with poultry seasoning and a little smoked paprika fried crisp in butter it has the savory factor of bacon and goes great with pancakes or fried sweet potato slabs. It is a favorite for foraging a gift to many, the only problem for me is their sporadic nature, So save up a few over a couple days if you need to... I seriously do not even smell the veggie smell maybe because I fry them crisp. ALWAYS look for the pinkish spore until you are very familiar with them (and even then!). The only really close look-a-like colored cap I see is a serious baddie "the panther" mushroom but they are sprouting in the grass and in groups near the deer mushroom wood chip area and have an obvious bulb at the foot so never be thrilled to rip the caps off until you verify it is growing off wood stumps or chips. Dear/fawn Mushrooms love wood chips!
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Up here in NH.Could not find one morel...I did fins these deer mushrooms Everywhere.I would bring them home..and then search for an identifying video or article. It is only now that I come across your video,and after one other shorter glimpse from a prior video- that I now am sure of what I knew all along.I could eat that mushroom.Please tell me your explanation for my not locating a single morel...and I looked for the past month of May up until yesterday. I am located in Southern NH. ON mutual borders with VT and Ma.Nice old video...Keep enjoying the bounties which abound.
I believe I found this mushroom in SE South Dakota. But you suggest it doesn’t appear much west of Wisconsin. But what I found is exactly What you describe here.
If something is said to occur west to Wisconsin then it is likely also found in Minnesota. People can check MycoPortal.org for records. Pluteus cervinus is common in Minnesota. There is also one record for North Dakota. Thanks for the great videos.
I just fried up and ate two fairly young Pluteus cervinus. I carmelized them as Adam said. Absolutely delicious! Stronger flavor than the Ceriporus squamosus that I sautéed them with.
Oh, no! Adam, I had a bunch of these last year. I couldn't get them iD-ed and had to throw them out. I just have to go back to where I found them. . . . . One of the charteristics I notices was how sticky the thin top skin to the cap was, because I tried to avoid touching it. . . . . I'll review your video when I find them again. Thanks for the great info!!!!!
These are just ok. If you find them, try em! My opinion is that even the cheapest most common store bought mushrooms taste better, and I'm looking for flavor in the wild ;)
Not too much mushroom activity here is SE PA, but after the last few rains in late October, these seem to be coming up on or from inside practically every dead tree lying around. Tentatively id'd them as deer mushrooms, but will now use this info to check them more carefully. The radish/potato smell was not something I had run across in any description. Maybe I'll try the dry-frying method and pair it with some venison. That seems appropriate.
Today is November 22nd 2019 and I just found this species of fungi how interesting although the gills extend all the way to the stem so I'm doubting it's the deer mushroom it would be great if I could send pics to you but I don't think it's possible here in the comments section have a great day I enjoy and I'll follow your Channel
Love your channel, Thanks for all you do. now to the first mushroom i've identified - in my yard - thanks to some books, the web & your channel. I found two nice fresh Pluteus Petasatus today after work! Initially thought Pluteus Cervinus, then a little more research got me to Pluteus Petasatus. I'm pretty stoked about it!
Strange that I found this mushroom in north GA at the end of Dec. I have gotten a pos ID on it. So strange. But thanks for always having just the video that I need when I need it.
I think I found some of these. They were on a hill near my property where the owner had previously logged. I looked it up and it said they were a deer mushroom. When I watched your video it sounds like the one you were describing as Pluteus Petasatus. They grew in small clusters, growing out of rotting wood and wood chips, smelled like radishes, had white unattached gills. I'll have to take a spore sprint.. Hopefully I can find some more and compare them to this video and some other resources. Thanks.
I found a few of these about 2 weeks ago and tried them... I wasn't a fan of them on their own, but every flavour has it's usefulness and I'm bound to find a recipe these are the preferred mushroom for.
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I just found a monster deer mushroom, and you have helped me identify it. It was growing right under the base of a gigantic fallen hardwood with a lot of various species growing out of it, and i peeled back a few large sections of bark and inoculated the tree with Laetiporus sulphureus mycelium and spores. I took the rest of my chicken and ground it into a few other fallen hardwoods around the area. 🤞next year or the year after i should have a great spot for chicken harvest lol. Man you are my favorite source for informashroom!
hey! you just helped me identify one in my picture catalog. thank you! all your videos are super informative and I always learn from them and enjoy them
This is such a great channel you have here. I was wondering if you could do a video on Auricularia. We have so much wood ear here in TN right now, and would love to get your take on it.
Thanks! Surprisingly I don't see Auricularia too often, though if I come across some nice specimens I'll do my best to film a video! Thanks for the suggestion.
Just another note. Julius Schaeffer first described the mushroom in 1774. His Latin description says the cap is deer-colored. There is no mention of microscopic characters. Seems the horned cystidia are a happy coincidence. A friend of mine does eat this Pluteus.
found some recently on the grass near to woods...however the cap surface has a sheen like glistening...I kinda find it rather suspicious because some poisonous types have a shiny surface on the cap...can u give me some pointers to this feature...thanks!
Hello everyone! I've been eating deer mushrooms for several years now since I learned to ID it correctly here in south western Manitoba CA. At first I used my standard butter and onions method of cooking mushrooms but found the flavour was much improved when I dry fried it. It browns and crisps up in the pan much faster this way and once the liquid is gone I add a bit of butter and salt and pepper. Much tastier this way! Thanks Adam for all of your teaching. I've learned a lot from you!
I'm in eastern PA soon moving out to Colorado, im into learning about a lot of the stuff you're discussing and have some similar videos on oysters and slugs you might enjoy. ClintKuban.com
I just cooked some Deer Mushrooms for the first time. These are not only worth eating, they are damn delicious!!! Butter, garlic and a few drops of lime juice, fried crispy will blow your mind! Tastes meaty when you add lime..YUM!!
Just finished an omelette with some deer, shiitake and oysters. First time trying deer and I'm impressed, not a huge fan of radishes so I've been putting it off for a while. I'm really glad I watched this video, gave me the nudge I needed and now I have a new thing to forage. Thank you Adam
Everything taste better with butter, onions and garlic!
Truer words were never spoken...
Lol word
And a little sea salt don’t for get the salt lol
I agree! hahaha
I love radishes! :) Thanks for the info Adam. Still a little nervous about brown gilled mushrooms, but I'm going to do some hunting tonight and see what I find. As always, great vid!
Hey Rick, I don't blame you for being a bit nervous. It took me a few years of learning mushrooms before trying the Deer Mushroom. We should always be cautious of gilled mushrooms with central stems... especially those that grow from the forest floor and grass. If you ever do try it, let me know what you think.
This is only my 2nd season, but with the help of several trusted books and the huge amounts of important information you share, I'm sure I will find some this year. My grandfather used to talk about Deer Mushrooms, Meadow Mushrooms and Horse Mushrooms and eating them as a child here in Wisconsin...I'm going to try to find them all! And if not, time in the woods is never wasted. I will let you know what I think when I try one, Adam. Thanks again for all the awesome info you share!
So I found deer mushrooms, every characteristic matches, except the spore print. Mine gave a bright white spore print, so I believe they are the Megacollybia Rodmani
I love your videos!
Keep up the good work!
Thanks, Chris! I appreciate it.
Hello everyone. I am in northeastern Pennsylvania. I ate some Pluteus Cervinus just last week. I found it to be a fairly pleasant tasting mushroom. It's definitely not one of the best but not one of the worst either. I think it would be a nice addition to a hamburger.
Thanks for sharing your experiences, David!
You're welcome Adam. But it is the rest of us that should be saying thank you to you. You are an amazing educator. Your videos are well done, the information you share is clear, concise, and easy for the uninitiated to grasp. I'm looking forward to meeting you some day and being able to learn even more from you. Keep up the great work. We all appreciate it.
Thanks, David! I really appreciate that.
I just found one in my yard!! Thanks for the video!!
P. cervinus has turned a mostly boring mushroomless outing into a mushroom photo op. It seems most abundant in the area where I live during the very early or very late mushroom season.
Yes, indeed John! Even when it's dry, I still tend to find this mushroom.
I found this mushroom in the park on a decaying tree and couldn't find too much information on this until now thanks Bro.
You're welcome!
As always, very informative, and well presented. Thanks! I need to join a mushroom group. Northern VT.
Thanks, Kirk! There's a large mushroom foray in your state this summer... www.nemf.org/index.html
Thanks for the info!
Had one today they taste good in my opinion.
Are you in the Laurel Highlands? Just wondering if I should even bother looking for Morels this weekend. The ramps seemed to come up late this year in the LH.
I live about 70 miles Northwest of the Laurel Highlands, though I love spending time there. You *may* find some Morels down there right now because of the higher elevations, though from what I've heard and experienced, the season is pretty much done all throughout Southern Pennsylvania (as of May 17th).
we mostly eating mushroom in Phillipines that is similar color and sizes of what you discuss in this vedio but if we cut the cap i noticed that the mushroom release a stain like pinkish to red like liquid, we call this mushroom in my native language o-oung.My question is? This is belong also in the variety of deer mushrooms?Please let me know,thank you.
Hey Adam. Do you have any interested in Psychoactive Mushrooms? I don't mean using them as such, but more in a curious interest sense. Do you find many on your hunts? Keep up the great vids!
Hey that's a good question. Yes, I do see them from time to time... especially during certain times of the year and in particular habitats. Western Pennsylvania has quite a few psychoactive mushroom species.
Awesome stuff. They're quite cool to come across. We have some really interesting ones here in NZ. Google "Psilocybe Weraroa" and "Psilocybe Aucklandii" both found where I live in Auckland. Very cool looking Mushrooms
you cant avoid them, Psilocybe Cubensis has this ability to "draw" one to it to examine it, to want to put it in your mouth, once you eat it you realize it WASN'T a "Mistake". It looks out of this world like from a different planet that its spore came from space and landed here, and it is a beautiful mushroom, however it tastes like crap, it was the best thing I ever ate. it will make you smarter, it will open your mind, and your life will be changed forever for the better....learn to identify it. I ate 7 med. large caps at once, and I took a trip to a far away spirit world, and the feeling after you come down is refreshed and peaceful, no hangover no bad feelings, just right on man, and the urge to do it again whenever possible. try it Rusty, you'll love it says me...I am the mushroom.
I like them best cooked in a gravy sauce on some pasta 😉
Whats your thoughts on these kids ingesting the fly agaric to get high off it "shakes head" playing with death from what ive read
they're not deadly, they contain muscimol, (and muscarine if it's been in the heat of the sun for a while) and ibotenic acid, which are all hallucinogenic/depressant chemicals.
Thanks so much for your video. Here in Boston I just (Nov.1)found a bunch of little mushrooms growing on a bed of wood chips. I think they are in this category. Slimy at the top and brown spores print. Being cautious I tried one fried in butter and 12 hrs later I am not sick, so I am going to eat the rest. The gills are not white, though. Any ideas? thanks!
You shouldn't eat mushrooms that you can't ID with confidence. One of the the wrong little brown mushroom is plenty to destroy your liver or kill you and same definitely goes for white mushrooms. Trying one is NOT being cautious. If you survived this experiment unscathed you are lucky and should stop while your ahead.
Yes I agree one sliver of the size of a fingernail clipping could shut your liver down. And it takes more than 48 hours before you know your know it’s too late. Make sure and try to wait at least 48 hours before consuming more of same species. Old saying ( there’s no such thing as an old brave mushroom hunter)
You just verified a mushroom i have been trying to identify. My husband and I went out morel hunting a few weeks ago. I brought it home and did a spore print and googled it, looked and looked for it and there were so many I really couldnt ID it for sure. Then I went to you tube and still no actual ID. Then saw your video yesterday and this is definitely what it is. Going out to get it today😃 Thanks Adam! Sending people to your channel. Actually had on of my friends watch this video yesterday with me.
Hey that's awesome! Glad this video was helpful!
@@LearnYourLand For me to, Adam. South America also has those. Found them today. Much gills, barely any flesh and turn pinkish when mature. Found mine under a bush, kinda clustered.
What I somehow identified so far:
Funeral Bell,
Destroying angel (going to try both as pesticide),
Field mushroom,
Oyster (plerotus and pink - summer),
Jelly (probably judeae, elf ear).
Uindentified: some litle one growing near palm trees, likely a very litle honey mushroom. Bright yellow to orange, withe gills, white sporeprint. Did put me to a deep sleep.
Region: state of Santa Catarina, Brazil.
Thanks
I've found these guys in western Oregon and have discovered that they have a flavor and texture strikingly similar to fried chicken skin when toasted over an open fire! 😁
All mushrooms are edible, Some, Only once.
Stole my comment before I started writting!
I just found four of these yesterday it took me all day to ID it lol should of come here first.
I do!😁
As always, your mycological insight is greatly appreciated. However, the thing I liked best about this video was your comment that (to paraphrase) the best way to connect to your land is to build yourself out of ingredients found within it. So true! We all say "you are what you eat," but most of us gloss over how literally this is the case. If we all went out and nourished ourselves from our landscape more regularly, I can't help but think it would increase people's perception of value toward their land, and help do away with some of the apathy toward it. Thanks for the reminder!
I just picked two in my yard here in the San Francisco east bay area.
After a little more research is is more likely to be Pluteus petasatus more common in urban areas like mine.
Of interest: Several species of this genus bruise blue and contain psilocybin.....but not the one growing in my yard.......bummer.
JamesThomas they’re literally everywhere here in the Central Valley area. Very common yard mushroom..but don’t confuse it with the hallucinogenic pluteus americanus
I heard that cooking them without oil for a while first, then adding oil and caramelizing them improves the flavor. I seemed to work for me, and reduces the after taste issue. Thanks as always for the excellent video. You are a the best!
Identified 2 beautiful white mushrooms in my yard growing from stumps using google lens. Then found your video to explain more about them. We just has 2 days of rain and I found these deer mushrooms. I would enjoy cooking them up but was looking for more specific details on how to cook and how quickly to cook after removing them from the ground. Also, I've heard not to drink alcohol with some wild mushrooms so I was interested in your feedback on these inquiries. Alittle info about me, we live in rural Indiana, am an avid vegetable gardener herb fan and foodie! I also i also overwinter many of my summer plants and flowers. I hunt morels and snake heads religiously in the spring (early April - late May) and then continue foraging wild mushrooms after each rain through negative F° temps (usually Late Dec into Jan). My main experience with preparing and eating mushrooms is pan and deep frying them. YUM! So carmelizing wild mushrooms is a game changer. Tell me all the things, PLEASE! Thank you!
So I found some where I used to have an old tree, and I saw a bunch of these mushrooms, thank you I’m going to grill them
I've seen these, I'll get them from now on. Just ate a bunch of oyster mushrooms sauted with garlic powder, wild onions, and a little salt and pepper. Damn good.
Nice!
The first mushroom I chose to forage and eat once I got a good ID! Abundant in south central Pennsylvania (Harrisburg...York) spring into summer. Love everything about your videos and all you share. Thank you
I found a mushroom very similar looking or exact look to deer mushroom, no volva, no ring, brown cap, cap 2-3 inches across, free or notched gills, grown next to dead log, but the spore print was white, and the mushroom smelled like button mushroom.
A great forage find for me I ONLY use them fried CRISP in butter and seasoned with poultry seasoning. I use them as a meatless replacement for bacon in B'Fast dishes, fried rice and as pseudo- shrimp in green papaya salads! Yumm I gather all I find! Use good ID tips and give them a chance to grow on your flavor palate.
Great video. Looking over my deck at night I thought I was seeing deer poo. Upon further examination I knew they were mushrooms. Found your video very informative. Thanks a bunch!! Quick question, I read some can have psychoactive properties. Is this true?
I'll have to look for that in Michigan... love your vids!
Thanks Dave! Hope you find it!
I find a lot of these in my little low-lying woodlot in late spring/early summer. I saute them kind of low and slow in butter or bacon fat with some garlic and a lot of onions until the moisture cooks off and they start to brown; don't notice any strange or unpleasant aftertaste that way. It's not uncommon for me to find 4-5 good-sized ones in one area, which makes for a decent size batch to cook up.
I’ve been finding them in California and every detail is what you say ,except the gills seem to be attached? Please advise...thank you.
I think the Deer Mushrooms taste very nice..... Great channel. Thank you.
It is tasty
if you sauté it with butter, garlic, pepper, and a little bit of salt.
Hi I found it in August 25, not Spring. You said you liked it? I found a group. Thank you
Fried it up with onions and peppers. Broke down pretty good - sort of a fatty taste reminiscent of steak which was fun.
How can one tell the difference between this one and the Americanus?
I found three just like that but they are MASSIVE! Is it safe to eat still?
unrelated question adam, have you ever done any videos on the self heal plant id and uses
Mark, I haven't filmed any videos on Self Heal, though that's a great suggestion for a future video this year! I'll try to get around to that. Thanks!
The gills not attached to the stem is a sure thing the other toxic ones are all atched???
I found at park 15 just in one group and I enjoy eating.
Do you have any videos on pluteus americanus?
Interesting
I don't believe I would ever eat a deer mushroom.
Great video, dude. Thanks a lot. Just got enough confidence to harvest pluteus cervinus for the first time, though I've seen it many times before. Will try a spore print of course, though, before any tasting, as well as, obviously it has the other morpholpgical traits mentioned. Much love from Transylvania! ✌🦇🐻
I found some in wood chips in Oklahoma
I think they taste like fried peanut butter
I love them for B'fast seasoned with poultry seasoning and a little smoked paprika fried crisp in butter it has the savory factor of bacon and goes great with pancakes or fried sweet potato slabs. It is a favorite for foraging a gift to many, the only problem for me is their sporadic nature, So save up a few over a couple days if you need to... I seriously do not even smell the veggie smell maybe because I fry them crisp. ALWAYS look for the pinkish spore until you are very familiar with them (and even then!). The only really close look-a-like colored cap I see is a serious baddie "the panther" mushroom but they are sprouting in the grass and in groups near the deer mushroom wood chip area and have an obvious bulb at the foot so never be thrilled to rip the caps off until you verify it is growing off wood stumps or chips. Dear/fawn Mushrooms love wood chips!
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I wish you still wore this style!
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Up here in NH.Could not find one morel...I did fins these deer mushrooms Everywhere.I would bring them home..and then search for an identifying video or article. It is only now that I come across your video,and after one other shorter glimpse from a prior video- that I now am sure of what I knew all along.I could eat that mushroom.Please tell me your explanation for my not locating a single morel...and I looked for the past month of May up until yesterday. I am located in Southern NH. ON mutual borders with VT and Ma.Nice old video...Keep enjoying the bounties which abound.
Thanks
I believe I found this mushroom in SE South Dakota. But you suggest it doesn’t appear much west of Wisconsin. But what I found is exactly What you describe here.
If something is said to occur west to Wisconsin then it is likely also found in Minnesota. People can check MycoPortal.org for records. Pluteus cervinus is common in Minnesota. There is also one record for North Dakota. Thanks for the great videos.
I just fried up and ate two fairly young Pluteus cervinus. I carmelized them as Adam said.
Absolutely delicious! Stronger flavor than the Ceriporus squamosus that I sautéed them with.
Oh, no! Adam, I had a bunch of these last year. I couldn't get them iD-ed and had to throw them out. I just have to go back to where I found them. . . . . One of the charteristics I notices was how sticky the thin top skin to the cap was, because I tried to avoid touching it. . . . . I'll review your video when I find them again. Thanks for the great info!!!!!
These are just ok. If you find them, try em! My opinion is that even the cheapest most common store bought mushrooms taste better, and I'm looking for flavor in the wild ;)
Not too much mushroom activity here is SE PA, but after the last few rains in late October, these seem to be coming up on or from inside practically every dead tree lying around. Tentatively id'd them as deer mushrooms, but will now use this info to check them more carefully. The radish/potato smell was not something I had run across in any description. Maybe I'll try the dry-frying method and pair it with some venison. That seems appropriate.
Today is November 22nd 2019 and I just found this species of fungi how interesting although the gills extend all the way to the stem so I'm doubting it's the deer mushroom it would be great if I could send pics to you but I don't think it's possible here in the comments section have a great day I enjoy and I'll follow your Channel
Love your channel, Thanks for all you do. now to the first mushroom i've identified - in my yard - thanks to some books, the web & your channel. I found two nice fresh Pluteus Petasatus today after work! Initially thought Pluteus Cervinus, then a little more research got me to Pluteus Petasatus. I'm pretty stoked about it!
Strange that I found this mushroom in north GA at the end of Dec. I have gotten a pos ID on it. So strange. But thanks for always having just the video that I need when I need it.
I think I found some of these. They were on a hill near my property where the owner had previously logged. I looked it up and it said they were a deer mushroom. When I watched your video it sounds like the one you were describing as Pluteus Petasatus. They grew in small clusters, growing out of rotting wood and wood chips, smelled like radishes, had white unattached gills. I'll have to take a spore sprint.. Hopefully I can find some more and compare them to this video and some other resources. Thanks.
I found a few of these about 2 weeks ago and tried them... I wasn't a fan of them on their own, but every flavour has it's usefulness and I'm bound to find a recipe these are the preferred mushroom for.
This was a VERY helpful and informative video! Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Thank you
I love radishes very much but I'm still new at mushroom hunting I'm staying away from any brown mushroom as of now
Great page man love the videos ....What's your thouhts on the endocanabanoid system and do you use cannabis as a means for holistic healing
I eat it😅
Just tried it today, taste is a bit unusual for mushroom, little radish but for me is more like the spinach, even the after taste. I kind of like it.
What kind of name is Abortive Entoloma? Sounds disgusting! =P
Just found one in west Tennessee. Cooking it up tonight with wild onions and radishes. Mmmm mmm good.
Love your detailed description and especially the look alike portion!
Found some today waiting on spore print to confirm and then I'll be cooking them tomorrow
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Got hundreds growing out of an old large woodchip/leaf mulch area!
Found it!!
I actually love the taste of radish so I'd be interested to taste this!
Great video Adam..As always... :-)
I am 99.9% sure I found one of these today but I am a newbie so I did not eat it. But its still interesting to research. Thanks for the vid!
I would've done the same! Unless I'm 100% sure, I just take photos and appreciate the discovery. Glad you enjoyed the video!
Just picked one looking for morels
I just found a monster deer mushroom, and you have helped me identify it. It was growing right under the base of a gigantic fallen hardwood with a lot of various species growing out of it, and i peeled back a few large sections of bark and inoculated the tree with Laetiporus sulphureus mycelium and spores. I took the rest of my chicken and ground it into a few other fallen hardwoods around the area. 🤞next year or the year after i should have a great spot for chicken harvest lol. Man you are my favorite source for informashroom!
Thank you! Glad to hear you're enjoying these videos!
hey! you just helped me identify one in my picture catalog. thank you! all your videos are super informative and I always learn from them and enjoy them
actually 2 mushrooms! I had a deer mushroom and that megacollybia rodmani in my picture catalog. this is great
This is such a great channel you have here.
I was wondering if you could do a video on Auricularia. We have so much wood ear here in TN right now, and would love to get your take on it.
Thanks! Surprisingly I don't see Auricularia too often, though if I come across some nice specimens I'll do my best to film a video! Thanks for the suggestion.
Love your vids! Not boring and slow like most in this category. Very pleasant to watch and so informative.
Thanks, Heather!
Just another note. Julius Schaeffer first described the mushroom in 1774. His Latin description says the cap is deer-colored. There is no mention of microscopic characters. Seems the horned cystidia are a happy coincidence. A friend of mine does eat this Pluteus.
Good to know, thanks for providing the additional information! (By the way, is this Patrick Leacock?)
Yes it is. Hope to meet you sometime at an event or foray.
found some recently on the grass near to woods...however the cap surface has a sheen like glistening...I kinda find it rather suspicious because some poisonous types have a shiny surface on the cap...can u give me some pointers to this feature...thanks!
Rosalind, do you have a picture of the mushroom? If so, perhaps you can email it to me and I can help you with the identification.
Unfortunately no...I discarded it !
Hello everyone! I've been eating deer mushrooms for several years now since I learned to ID it correctly here in south western Manitoba CA. At first I used my standard butter and onions method of cooking mushrooms but found the flavour was much improved when I dry fried it. It browns and crisps up in the pan much faster this way and once the liquid is gone I add a bit of butter and salt and pepper. Much tastier this way! Thanks Adam for all of your teaching. I've learned a lot from you!
Thanks for sharing your experiences! Very helpful!
I find tons of these while ovoid hunting
What is an ovoid?
Awesome video
Thanks, Clint!
I'm in eastern PA soon moving out to Colorado, im into learning about a lot of the stuff you're discussing and have some similar videos on oysters and slugs you might enjoy. ClintKuban.com