Bolete & Suillus Mushroom Identification with Adam Haritan

hey everyone I'm Adam Harrison from learner land and in this video we are going to be discussing a particular genus of mushrooms the soilless genus now if you're interested in bolete mushroom identification and harvesting then this may be a video for you because bullets and sillas mushrooms are somewhat related to one another now if you're not familiar terms well they are essentially terrestrial mushrooms they grow from the ground that on the underside they typically contain pores rather than gills they form mycorrhizal associations with various trees in the forest bullies are typically regarded as one of the safer mushroom families to harvest for the table and many are choice edible mushrooms like the porcini or boletus edulis the king bullied now Sulis mushrooms used to be the same families bullies however they have since undergone taxonomic revision so now they are in this tool a CA family however they are still in the same order as bullies so if you think back to your biology classes in high school or college you may remember the Linnaean classification systems kingdom phylum class order family genus species the soilless and bleats are in the same order but now they're split into two separate families soilless mushrooms typically grow an association with conifer trees I think pine trees spruce trees fir trees hemlock trees large trees and what really distinguishes them at least morphologically speaking from many belief mushrooms is that they typically contain slimy caps with a cap cuticle that can peel up they typically contain a partial veil that covers the poor surface and that breaks to leave a cottony veil around the stem and they typically contain glandular dots in the stem as well now if you're looking through the woods and you find a belief like mushroom in conifer rich woods and it contains those characteristics you might be able to narrow it down to the soilless genus and then from there you can probably identify down the species in this video we are going to be discussing two edible Sulis mushrooms so Willis picked this the Painted soilless and soilless granule artist the dotted stock Sue Ellen the first mushroom we are going to start with is Willis picked this the painted sue Ellis and we're going to start with this one because out of the two I feel it's the easier one to identify and I have to be honest with you even though I mentioned all those characteristics that are pretty typical for suela species this one doesn't necessarily fit all those characteristics for example so let's pick this doesn't even have a slimy cap and it doesn't have glandular dots around the stem so they called so Willis picked this picked this means painted so the painted Swiss is a very beautiful mushroom looks like somebody painted it if you look in older field guides you might see the names Willis Sprague iya and spring guys named after the Boston mycologist Charles James Sprague or sprog who is reportedly the first person to collect this mushroom at least as a mycologist and so this mushroom is a medium-sized mushroom that you almost always find an association with eastern white pine trees at least here in Pennsylvania so this one is mycorrhizal with five needle pine trees the eastern white pine tree is a five needled pine tree if you're finding this mushroom somewhere else then it's probably not that mushroom you're almost always going to find it in a pine rich forest especially in eastern white pine rich forest now this mushroom is a mentioned before it's got red fibrils on the caps it's very velvety if you would remove those five rolls if you would cut through it would reveal an inner flesh that is yellow underneath the poor surface is yellow and it's got rather large pores that are radially oriented and angular in appearance it's got a partial veil on the underside so it's covering up the poor surface at least one young this will often break and it'll stretch and you'll see this cottony material on the underside that will eventually drop and leave a cotton e-ring zone around the stem the stem resembles the cap and appearance it's got red five rolls and it's accented with yellow hues throughout now as I said you're always going to find this mushroom at least here in Pennsylvania and association with eastern white pine trees if you don't know an eastern white pine tree looks like look at the needles or the leaves of various pine trees and you'll see that they're arranged in bundles or fascicles of different numbers if you find one with three that could be a pitch pine if you find one with two that could be a red pine but here in Pennsylvania it's almost always going to be an eastern white pine tree if you find it born in fascicles of five now this is an edible mushroom however does have a few look-alikes but nothing really to worry about one might be soilless decipi ins however this mushroom is typically more orange in appearance whereas Sulis pictus is rather red in appearance in that one so as the SIP ian's grows typically in the southeastern portion of the United States the other one is sue Ellis Leakey I however this one typically grows an association with Douglas fir trees so if you go through all those characteristics that I mentioned before and you find this red painted looking mushroom with red fibrils on the cap with yellow on the underside and it does drop an olive Brown spore print by the way so pick a spore print before you decide to eat this at least for the first time you find this in association with eastern white pine trees and you probably do have swilley's picta source willis spray guy the painted swellest mushroom the second mushroom we will be discussing is sue Willis granule itis the dotted stock sue Ellis and this one demonstrates some of those typical characteristics associated with sue Ellis feces this one likes soilless mushrooms it grows in conifer rich forests you can find this under eastern white pine trees but also hemlock trees and spruce trees as well like many swellow species it has a slimy cap so if you touch it you will feel that slimy 'no so you can even see it in a cap is tannish brown color and this is a more squat mushroom typically a little wider sometimes bigger than soilless pictus but i find it's a little thicker in appearance and it almost looks like a pastries coming up out of the ground that's what I see whenever I look around and I see sue Ellis granule oddest it almost looks like somebody threw a bunch of pastries on the ground on the underside the poor service at first is a cream color it almost a light yellow and then it eventually turns into a dingy yellow brownish color over time and when this mushroom is young you will see little white milk droplets being exerted from the poor surface usually I see this when the mushroom is young as it gets older you don't really see that now they call it the dotted stalks to Ellis because it's got little dots little granulations all over the stock and it seems to be more concentrated near the apex of the stock as well and it's typically a yellowish color or brownish color now there is one look-alike for stew it's granule eyes at least one that I know and that is Willis Placidus it kind of looks like suppose granule itis however this one is typically more whitish in appearance and a stent is a bit thinner but if you find this mushroom growing under eastern white pine trees or hemlock trees or spruce trees and it fits all those characteristics itíd described before and it drops a cinnamon brown to a brown spore print so always take a spore print if this is gonna be the first time before eating this mushroom then you might have swellest granule oddest the dotted stalks Willis so what exactly are soo illa species even doing in the woods are they just there for our benefit just there for us to have great meals day after day after day or are they doing something DIF and well they kind of are doing something different they are what's known as mycorrhizal fungi many different general and species of mushrooms are mycorrhizal meaning they form symbiotic relationships with various plant and tree species in the case of soils we see that with conifer trees like pine spruces hemlocks furs and larches now so will a species form what are known as ecto mycorrhizal associations meaning the high fee in the soil that thread-like network the vegetative non reproductive structure of a fungus they essentially form a mantle around the reutlitz of the plant or the trees and heiping extend into the soil and it pull up nutrients that way but they also extend between the cortex cells of the plant kind of neat huh now whenever we look at trees and plants in the woods most plants and trees for my garage associations with various fungi it's actually the exception for a plant or a tree not the form of mycorrhizal association that's how beneficial it is to the tree into the plant and it's also very beneficial for the fungus as well now when you're looking through the woods you see how beautiful everything looks understand that it would not look this way it'll never look this way without mushrooms that's how essential mushrooms are even if we're not interested in eating mushrooms they're absolutely essential for life on earth at least at this point in time now here's also an interesting thought whenever you're looking for your choice edible mushrooms some various species of believed or chanterelles or some soil species and you don't find any you come up empty-handed understand that they're still there they're underneath your feet there are hundreds and hundreds of species underneath your feet that just aren't making themselves known in mushroom form yes your timings a little off but they're still in the soil and look around and when you notice trees like this one right here perhaps the only reason this tree is here because of its association with various beliefs or various chanterelle so not all hope is lost you don't find your mushrooms they're still all around you so that's a very good thought to think now both species that I mentioned before is to Willis granule audicence well as pictus are edible mushrooms and I do encourage you to cook them before consuming them in the case of soils granule odyssic cat might be little too slimy it could cause digestive upset so you might want to peel back that cuticle layer you just remove it and then cook it up that way and I recommend cooking the caps not necessarily this stems thanks so much for watching this video I really appreciate it I hope you learned something about various species of sue Ellis and bleep mushrooms as well you want to stay in touch with me I encourage you to go to learn your landcom and sign up for the email list so that we can stay in touch that way and if you're on youtube if you're watching us on YouTube feel free to subscribe to my youtube channel to stay up to date with all the videos that I plan on releasing in the future thanks again for watching this video I truly appreciate it happy mushroom hunting you

Channel: Learn Your Land

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Keywords: Adam Haritan, Learn Your Land, Foraging, Mushrooms, Fungi, Fungus, Wild Food, Arthur Haines, Daniel Vitalis, David Wolfe, Stuart Wilde, Universe, God, Crazy Horse, Eat Wild, Foraging Pittsburgh, Bolete, Bolete Mushrooms, Suillus, Wild Edibles, Wild Foodism, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Western Pennsylvania, South Side

Id: G88MME7CBU4

Length: 10min 6sec (606 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 25 2016