Discover Mushrooms in the PNW Documentary; Episode 1

[Music] welcome to mushroom wonderland today we are going on a journey into the pacific northwest into the forests the markets the kitchens and the minds of mushroom lovers to learn what a mushroom actually is to discover the mysteries of fungi how a mushroom reproduces the many beautiful types of mushrooms that grow in the forests of the northwest [Music] the many uses for mushrooms over thousands of years from ancient tribes to the modern day forager as we discover mushrooms in the pacific northwest mushrooms are as old and as constant in these forests as the land itself mushrooms are so unique that they have their own kingdom separate from plants and animals they are beautiful mysterious and can even be deadly if misidentified there are over two thousand distinct species of mushrooms growing in the pacific northwest of all shapes and sizes each with unique identification characteristics is still a bad stigma around the dangers of mushrooms with a lot of misunderstanding surrounding it mushrooms can be eaten used as medicine used as dye for clothing for recreation and art [Music] today we are just taking a small look into mushrooms and how humans use them [Music] we hope to shed some light on our forest friends today and help you to discover mushrooms and all of their beauty this is a mushroom well it's what we most often think of when we hear the word mushroom it is the fruit of what we call the mycelium [Music] the mycelium is an underground network of fibers that make up the body of the fungus imagine if the mycelium was an apple tree and the mushroom is the apple now let's go over the parts of this mushroom there is the cap or pilius [Music] there is the stem or stipe and this particular mushroom has gills under there this is a very basic overview of a mushroom you can look up more detailed descriptions if you wish now back to our mushroom a mushroom reproduces by means of a spore like an airborne seed if you will when the spore lands in the perfect conditions it can reproduce the mycelium grows underground then when it is time to fruit a mushroom grows to repeat the cycle and if a human is lucky enough to come upon it during its relatively short lifespan it might find its way into the dinner pot there are gilled mushrooms [Music] veined mushrooms poured mushrooms or ballets there is the tooth fungi and poly pores or shelf fungi there is the puffball family and the coral mushrooms [Music] all of these grow here in the beautiful pacific northwest and today we are going to learn about a few popular types of local mushrooms that you can learn to forage for your of the mushrooms pictured in this film were found in the pacific northwest we live in one of the most diverse regions in the world for fungi so get out there and get picking [Music] mushrooms love the rain that's why the pacific northwest is one of the most diverse places in the world for mushrooms most mushrooms here are fruit in the autumn [Music] after a long dry summer the first of the fall rains begin the forest begins to awaken the mycelium is stimulated by the moisture and when carbon dioxide levels temperature light moisture and humidity are ideal the mycelium begins to produce fruit mushrooms need decay to grow and just the right amount of nutrients to fruit but mushrooms haven't always had such a savory reputation in ancient egypt mushrooms were regarded as plants of immorality and reserved for royalty only folks were even forbidden to pick them ancient romans called mushrooms the food of the gods caesar claudius roman emperor from 41 to 54 a.d was poisoned with the help of his wife conspiring with the poison maker i think most of us grew up with some authority figure telling us that we should avoid mushrooms to a certain extent i get that when you have a five-year-old child and you need to quickly keep them away from putting random objects in their mouth telling them that mushrooms those things growing out of the ground around that tree are poisonous and dangerous and you should not eat them that's not the craziest bit of simple black and white advice to give to the child i have found what is the ammonite of felloids or the death cap this mushroom is responsible for 90 percent of all mushroom deaths it doesn't grow on native trees around here it's always from imported european hardwoods this is amanita phalloides or the death cap mushroom this mushroom is responsible for most of the deaths associated with mushroom poisoning if you look right here is the sac like vulva that it was in they say that it actually tastes really delicious we've been able to interview people not myself but at my college yourself who have eaten those mushrooms and they all agree that those deadly ammonites are some of the best tasting mushrooms they've ever eaten so the flavor of a mushroom doesn't mean it's safe there are stories of ancient philosophers claiming that the safe mushrooms to eat were red ones and white ones and ones that looked like romans priests hats all of this was incorrect and caused a lot of misunderstanding sickness death and overall mistrust of mushrooms [Music] a roman philosopher put in his work that mushrooms should be avoided altogether this statement had an impact that would persevere for centuries he also claimed that mushrooms could cure ulcers cure dog bites and could remove freckles from women's faces simon cyrenius claimed that mushrooms caused intestinal colic and that mushrooms should be avoided another ancient scholar claudius gallinus claimed that poisonous mushrooms grew near rusted metal rotting clothes poisonous beasts dens an excrement from humans it was also advised to eat as few mushrooms as possible to stay in good health in the united states today there are over 500 poisonous plants and only 250 significantly poisonous mushrooms yet people don't hesitate to go picking wild blackberries simply because they know how to identify them mushrooms should be no different overcoming fear of wild mushrooms is a matter of education and awareness and is open to all who are willing to understand you know i think the fungal phobia is way overblown anyone who is really interested in eating mushrooms safely join a mycological society they're full of people like myself who will say well don't eat that one but this one's good hi i'm david ansley and i'm a member of the kitsap peninsula mycological society i've been picking mushrooms since i was a kid i grew up in the woods in the side of issaquah one of our friends showed us where to find morels around the base of cottonwood trees around easter that turned out to be my introduction to collecting wild mushrooms my name is aaron hilliard i'm a member of the kitsap peninsula mycological society i've been picking mushrooms for over 30 years here in the pacific northwest when i was eight years old my grandma got me into mushroom picking she'd take me out in the forest across from her house and we would just pick mushrooms and take them back to her place bring out field guides and try to identify what mushrooms we found it's funny how everyone's first time in the woods they point at almost everything and say is that edible out of thousands of mushrooms in the northwest woods somebody has already tried them right you don't have to re-sample every mushroom in the woods and see how it tastes we already know which ones are pretty good they're really easy to identify pretty darn easy to learn so that you can safely pick edible mushrooms in the northwest my advice is pick a mushroom that looks interesting that you're pretty sure you can identify it and go out and find it and then go find some more of it and then go find some more of it and once you've got that mushroom mastered pick another one and go looking for that mushroom and one by one work your way through the list i would not go crazy i would focus mushroom by mushroom on learning which ones are out there what they look like where you're likely to find them and once you've got a nail move on to the next what i'd like to talk about is how to think like a mushroom and by that i mean what does a mushroom want to eat where does a mushroom want to live what's mushroom want to do with its life because that gives us a lot of clues as to what you're going to find when you're going to find it where you're going to find it and we have thousands of mushrooms in the pacific northwest most of them pop up sometime in the fall but every one of them is just the fruit of a fungus that is growing and doing something there in the forest the fungus can't make its own food like a plant does it doesn't photosynthesize what it does is it just cozies up to another plant or animal or debris in the soil and absorbs it when you step into the woods in the northwest in the fall you're surrounded whether you know it or not you're surrounded by mushroom fungus mycelium the thin threads of fungus that permeate the ground the plants the trees that are periodically giving birth to mushrooms if you're in the woods and you're standing in the grove of fur or hemlock underneath your feet is this vast skirt-like spread of mycelium just a few inches down there you can't see it but it's living there has been living there its whole life in concert with those trees and they've got a sweet deal between the two of them the fungus is extending the reach of that tree's roots it's grabbing extra water and minerals that are just beyond the reach of the roots and it's wrapped around the roots and it's feeding water and minerals into the roots into the tree and the tree in return sends carbohydrates out to the to the fungus and that's what the fungus uses for food and the tree can't live without the fungus and the fungus can't live without the tree so for instance one of the mushrooms that we pick in the fall has that symbiotic relationship the conifers around here that's the chanterelle chanterelles are always found in medium age to older aged forests of fur and hemlock and occasionally spruced occasionally pine you won't find them next to hardwood trees like olives or maples or willows or something like that they're just they've just worked out this deal with some of the conifers so when i'm hunting for chanterelles in the pacific northwest i'm looking in a coniferous forest like this you can see it's all fur and hemlock up here black huckleberry salal leaves moss on the ground look for these identifiers it's the first thing you have to look for when you're going out to hunt chanterelles that you're in the right kind of forest and if you look right down here we have a good example of a chanterelle of a golden chanterelle we're at cantoralis formosus this is the the golden chanterelle it's a young button there's the chanterelle we're gonna pluck this one out so you can see the stem and everything beautiful little chanterelle you can see that the veins kind of don't really stop in a straight line they're very irregular this is uh indicative of a chanterelle sometimes these veins run all the way down the stipe and uh but they're pretty pretty easy to identify because of their vein pattern the lobster mushroom um it's a strange one but where you find it is going to be near uh one of those trees because it's um it's got it's part of a relationship with those trees so a lot of the mushrooms that we find in the woods uh in the fall they're the ones that are happily working out this relationship with their trees we're going into this forest quite a ways off the beaten path in search of lobster mushrooms this is hypomices lactoflorum um it's a parasite that actually grows on the urusula brevipes you can see how lobster will look like this right this is a big one we're about 300 feet from sea level conifer forest a big dug fur a lot of black huckleberry you look at this ground cover just a lot of this kind of moss right here in the middle of the game trail it's real bright orange there's a lobster peeking out at me that's a freaking lobster mushroom now another category entirely of mushrooms some of which we pick are the ones that aren't supporting the tree they're killing the tree for instance if you're walking through the woods and on maybe a dying tree or sort of a diseased looking tree you see this flash of orange orange shelf-like things hanging off of a tree you can see it from 100 yards away that's the chicken of the woods it's the fruit of a fungus that is slowly killing that standing tree that's a kind of mushroom that's from a fungus that is just busy chewing away at the nutrients inside that piece of wood let's see if we can spot us a delectable chicken in the wood that we're looking for down log so i'm in a section of woods where there's a lot of logs down a lot of moss on everything the chicken of the woods just so thick and so meaty that just shelves and shelves and shelves really beautiful the red belted conch it's another kind of shelf mushroom it's the one that you have seen whether you realize it or not the red belted conch is most likely the most common mushroom to be encountered in the northwest woods they may last for decades the thing about hunting for mushrooms in the woods in the fall is that on any given day you may or may not find the mushroom you're looking for where you found it last week the mycelium has to decide when is the perfect time to reproduce what is the perfect time to send some spores out into the world that year to try to make more babies they operate off of formulas known only to them but it obviously involves heat and involves moisture i swear every week somewhere in the woods some mushroom has decided okay now is the time to pop up another species of mushrooms that's very valued by collectors and hunters is uh are the beliefs the beliefs include some very tasty examples like the porcini which are also one of these symbiotic relationship fungi again found in and around conifers in the northwest if you look right here what we got is a baby porcini a portini mushroom how beautiful is that this is a porcini mushroom these mushrooms are one of the earliest ones to come out in the season they're so delicious if you look they're growing under a little mixture of salal and black huckleberry there's some pine needles from some pine trees right here as well as there's fur trees right above it one of my favorite mushrooms is the cauliflower mushroom and i'm not the only one who thinks it's a favorite one reason is so dang hard to find it's like a unicorn you can't really go hunting for a cauliflower mushroom really you just find it by accident when you're looking for something else and usually tasty has a terrific texture and it's usually found nestled up against the base of an old stump or a dying tree it's growing off of mycelium it's busy chewing away at that old tree or stump and if you find one i highly recommend that one as a treasure to bring back from the woods i am a secret fan of the shrimp russella tastes almost like french onion soup when you get it all cooked up uh don't tell anybody because everybody will want it now david was talking about his love for the shrimp russella a little bit bigger of one and here is a full grown adult one this is the shrimp russella and see how it's got this rosy color on the stem also indicative of the shrimp rustler another thing you can do is actually taste [Music] a little piece of the cap and if it has a peppery taste don't eat it got some pine needles in there no peppery taste russell is a rampolina the shrimp russella so the trick to thinking like a mushroom is to think about what kind of environment does a particular mushroom what what kind of moisture level does it want what kind of heat does it want what kind of pace is it on does it pop up typically in july or august or september or december they all have a different pattern if it's been really bone dry for the past month you're not going to find very much in the woods but if it starts raining really hard give it five or six days and then go out to your favorite spot and things will start popping up i'm convinced that it makes no difference whatsoever to the fate of the fungus underneath the ground because after all it's like saying gee if you pick that apple that might hurt the apple tree well no the apple tree is kind of grateful that you pick the apple because it's going to spread the seeds even farther than it might otherwise i'm sure a fungus thinks similarly exactly how many little strands of mycelium you pull up along the way i don't really think matters the first thing is just to remember it's crazy easy to get lost in the woods around here when you're hunting for mushrooms you're doing something different you've got your head down and you're marching around trees and then you're marching to the next bush and then you're marching under a dead tree and up around that stump and unless you've got really clear hints as to the topography or where the sun is a typical northwest cloudy october day you lose all sense of direction so you need other sources to keep yourself um aware of where you are one of them is just bring a compass another one is have a good sense from a map a printed map not necessarily one on your phone that's going to die with your battery of where you're going what the boundaries are like roads or trails so let's say you get lost you've yelled there's no sound you look around and you've lost your bearings you don't know which way is up stay there stop moving get out in the open or something don't guess because if you're lost your friends are looking for you now and the best thing you can do for them is stay put it happens all too easily around here and you just have to keep your whips and sit down and think about okay where was i where should everyone be will get reunited and you usually do it is amazing to me what a huge variety of types of mushrooms shapes of mushrooms can be found really quite close to each other in similar habitat they seem not to compete with each other too heavily they seem to have found peaceful coexistence in their little patches of woods i'm lowell dietz we are on the uh at the deets mushroom farm in squim i am a lifetime member of the kitsap peninsula mycological society when i came out to the west coast i joined the mycological society and that just opened up a world of mushrooms for me i've been involved in that club for over 30 years when i first started hunting mushrooms i was amazed to find these flavors that i had never tasted before and one of the old timers said oh all these wild mushrooms have a unique flavor so i started picking and hunting and i picked morels and chanterelles and occasionally i'd find a matsutake i'd find the uh belitas cascadians's uh we started coming up with recipes to use these oh they were so wonderful but i was always on mushrooms seems like before she had trail season came my chanterelles were all gone and before morel season came they were all gone and i learned how to cultivate mushrooms and the first thing we cultivated this is a pink oyster mushroom flourotus de jamore that mushroom kind of smells like fish tastes like seafood so kind of a tough chewy mushroom but it's really easy to grow it's about like growing dandelions in your lawn now this is my favorite mushroom for cultivation this is a blue cap oyster mushroom this is a good mushroom for this time because this mushroom if it's seed in water between 160 and 180 degrees it has an enzyme that we humans use to fight bacteria and viruses so it can be a medicinal mushroom if it's processed that way most people cook it over 180 and that enzyme evaporates off but but if you want to use it medicinally it can be it's probably my best tasting mushroom because it runs 20 percent or higher protein the mycelium in the bag will run 30 percent protein if you want to use it for cattle or goat feed i sell mushrooms to restaurants here in swim my limit is one mile if the restaurant's within one mile of this grow room i i cannot supply the mushrooms within one mile of where i'm standing i could grow ten times as many mushrooms as i do and sell them these i sell for twenty dollars a kilo which if you're a metric impaired comes to nine dollars and nine cents a pound i really like mushrooms so i guess that's why i have so many mushrooms so when i over blessed you're just gonna you know just splashes out on the people around me these are so easy to grow if you like mushrooms there's no reason to ever be out of mushrooms these grow on wheat straw i i buy it for 7.50 a bail and i can make 20 of these with a two bales of straw i've been cultivating oyster mushrooms for about 15 years i also grow shiitake and lynching so i eat 50 over 50 species of mushrooms my favorite mushroom for foraging is matsutake i think they're flavorful they're hard enough to find that it's a real thrill when you do find them also you're likely to come on a patch that has enough quantity to last you for a while bring a moment processing my very favorite mushroom for flavor is called the slime phobiota its scientific name is foliotnomico it's marketed in japan under the name namako which is japanese for slimy it's covered with a semi transparent layer of gelatinous orange slime that stinks which makes it kind of a problem for a cultivator to sell fresh but i have to say it is my favorite mushroom for flavor and my favorite way to eat it is to slice it thin put it on a soup really really hot like boiling hot broth and put those slices of that foliota on that soup and the amount of time it takes for that soup to cool to where you can eat it is just the amount of time it takes to cook that oyster mushrooms are really easy to grow these mushrooms are grown on barley straw you can also use wheat straw rice straw what i do with it is i run it through a hammer mill to reduce the volume i stuff it into a basket and and i put that basket it just fits inside a 55-gallon drum so i will put that basket of straw in that drum submerge it in water hold it at 160 to 180 degrees for at least one hour it kills off the competition to the fungus but it does not kill the heat loving bacteria that thermophilic bacteria is like baby food to the fungus so by getting a colony of that growing in the straw and then chilling it to where it's still alive but it can't reproduce anymore because it's so cool the fungus will run through and the first thing you'll eat is all those thermophilic bacteria once once the straw is pasteurized i spread it out on a table inoculated with grain spawn which is a millet with the fungus growing on it i make my own grain spawn here on the mushroom farm i have a clean room with a laminar flow hood and i can clone mushrooms and make straw or make grain spawn or i can if i acquire spawn from somebody else i will uh i can expand it out into more spawn because mushrooms produce sexually the offspring that come from the spores won't necessarily perform the way the parents do so it makes way more sense for me to uh if i have like say if i i particularly like this mushroom i would would tear it open and this this tissue in here that's below the gills in my clean room i would take a little tiny fork that i'd flame sterilized i teased some of that out and put it on agar on on a petri dish you know like this one this one's empty but i have some in the lab that and the fungus grows across the top of them and then then we cut up those little pieces of agar and put them in sterilized grain in order to make the grain master we inoculated these yesterday and you can't really see any sign you see the little the the grain there there's a little bit of kind of star shape that mycelium trying to grow off into the straw this is the first stage we call this leaping off now 14 days from here on the 24th i expect to be picking mushrooms off that kit that mushroom fruit 14 days after it's inoculated this one 16 days the the 475 the blue cap oyster mushrooms takes about 24 days i can grow shiitake on straw in 45 days you see this kit you can still see you can still see remnants of straw but the the fungus is growing to every bit of straw and that's what happens before it starts fruiting and then you'll see these little little guys popping out these will pin and it doesn't take very long for them to get big enough to pick uh two days maybe and they'll look like this when the margins begin to undulate they're ready to pick undulate go up and down um it starts getting wavy see yeah the these little ones that the margin is a straight line and these ones that are ready to pick the margins are going in and out and up and down the next thing after they undulate is they spore and when they sporulate the millions and millions of spores so unless you want to clean up this sort of stuff it's nice to pick them after they undulate before they sport but it's not necessary they're still good after they spore in fact some of the mushrooms aren't really flavorful until they spore clean room this is my lab this is where i uh clone mushrooms this is a tiny little two-time fork that's my favorite tool for cloning we would tease a little bit of tissue out of the mushroom put it on the agar in there let it grow across until it has colonized this agar like this and we cut little cubes little squares of that out and put it in a sterilized grain this is millet i like to use millet because the kernels are small because they're small i get more points of inoculation per unit weight than i do with rye or wheat this is essential to a clean room you need alcohol that's over 90 percent alcohol and try to buy this during the covid crisis my sister-in-law works at the co-op where i probably wouldn't be able to get this so we're in the clean room this is the work area in my laminar flow hood i'm not using it i keep this cover over the filter and if you look in here you see the filter has all these little aluminum channels that point this direction that's what makes the laminar flow as the air comes through that filter material it aims it all this direction so the wind is coming straight towards me so when i'm working in here i'll keep what what i'm working on upwind from me and i'll keep my hands downwind from that and the that filter will filter down to 0.1 microns so not even a virus can get through there so i've got this totally completely clean wind to work in so i can open up a like a bag of this and pour it into new grain to make an expansion or i can clone a mushroom in there or i can make the the grain spawn from from a petri dish in here i recommend beginning growers don't do this this it takes up a whole room in my house this equipment is very expensive if when i started this you couldn't buy a grain spun now you can buy bags that are four times bigger than this for 20 bucks eights these are how i keep my various uh cultures that i'm growing and those are ready to expand onto grain this is some grain spawn that i did a couple days ago it hasn't started to grow onto the millet yet here's one that i did some time ago and it's trying to fruit inside the bag because they didn't use it in a timely manner oh yeah yeah there's here's some more spawn that's mature ready to use how do you know when it's mature it turns white yeah yeah it's all white wow so this is all grain that's already been inoculated yeah this is a liquid inoculant i don't normally use that so this will all eventually become bales that are growing mushrooms out here in here yeah one one of these will make 14 of those little kits or seven of the big ones so yeah it expands out quite well this is my last crop of pinks i won't grow them again until next june i switch to cold temperature mushrooms like this in the winter time that way i don't have to eat nor cool my grow room i just leave the window open nice don't make the most common mistake that beginning mushroom cultivators make drawing shiitake on logs is wonderful if you live in asia and your grandparents did it because they know all the secrets it's really difficult i'm sure it could be done here we have the same climate here as they do in northern japan and there's 200 000 farmers growing shiitake on logs there that they import from siberia we can grow them here on alder so this would look like the very best way to do it but if you don't have that background there's there are things they know that we don't know yet so my advice is grow a mushroom that's really easy to grow grow an oyster mushroom grow it on straw readily available cheap you get really good yields i'll get 100 efficiency with this mushroom after you've been growing these easy to grow mushrooms for a while then try some of the little more difficult ones you know go to a ganoderma or shiitake on wood chips or sawdust then if you can get that down and that's working real well for you you want to inoculate some logs try that but but don't don't start with drawing shiitake on logs that's like you sign up for a class to learn how to dive in in the swimming pool and you say for my first dive i want to do a double black flip off the high board well you could try it but probably not going to have real satisfying results start start with a you know a layout dive or jack something easy that you can get well and then go to the next harder one and that's what i advise for people who are trying to grow mushrooms if you want more information about our mushroom farm our website is dietzfarm.com that's spelled d-i-e-t-z farm.com so now we're going to go on a walk in the forest 30 minute walk elapsed time i'm going to see what mushrooms i see on the side of the trail along the way and we're going to see if we can help identify them for you so that next time you go for a nature walk you might see some mushrooms that you recognize today i'm carrying this bag it's just a canvas grocery bag i carry this because if i want to put it in my backpack that's fine some people get big cute baskets to carry i'm a bad guy the mushrooms can breathe in here and it's soft and it can take a little bit of bouncing around if i'm really wanting to hike in the woods but today we're just going to look right trail side see what we can see from the trail so come with me on a walk let's go see what kind of mushrooms we can find in this forest so right now i'm on the side of a pretty worn trail and i have encountered what appears to be an amanita muscaria this is a popular mushroom got those white spots that are so indicative of the muscaria it is the toadstool on mario brothers so my if i get it from deep below now we can see the nature of an amanita it's got this vulva down here it's a cup like vulva on the bottom and you can see the base of it has this sheath around it and that was the universal veil so it's like an egg that actually the mushroom pops out of and this would be the shell that's remaining then you have a partial veil that's right here this is where the cap margin separates from the stipe if you look on top all of those white spots are actually remnants of this universal veil down here so it's an interesting mushroom it's really beautiful you can see the gills under there and this is known to be a toxic species some cultures have prepared it in a way that it becomes a hypnotic but it is not recommended still very identifiable very beautiful mushroom this is the amanita muscaria and this one is a little bit more yellow they often get dark red [Music] so here's an interesting mushroom a relative of amanita muscaria right here we have a amanita pantherina and this is a full-grown amanita pantherina also toxic another indicator of this mushroom is the veil remnants that are on the cap you can see some right here those used to be white spots when it was really young another toxic version of an ammonite and they do grow around here so avoid this one it's brown with white spots amanita pantherina and let's keep moving so it looks like so right here this is a type of rustler how i can tell it's a rustler is when i go to break the stem it's going to break easy like chalk and that's indicative of a russella mushroom the cell structure of these is so that the stem breaks like chalk it's very interesting it doesn't bend and it doesn't string off like a chanterelle might so here i am just a little bit in the brush and i found this and a lot of people see these and they think is that a bolite and it actually is a form of balit it's called a swillus this is commonly known as the slippery jack it's a pretty mushroom and they get really big and they get awfully contorted this particular specimen pretty symmetrical and they call it a slippery jack it's got this membranous slimy layer on top and if you look you can see how the margin is very thin and it kind of wraps under that's pretty indicative of a sewillus mushroom these are said to be edible not necessarily the most desirable usually you see big clusters of these swillus ludius [Music] so if you're ever walking in the woods and you see this weird globby thing growing on the end of a log this one actually has some of this drip so it looks like dew on it this is called guttation this is actually a young specimen of the red belted kong and they make these weird globular looking things on the ends of the log so they can look pretty different from specimen to specimen so but when it's growing here on the end of a log in this kind of area i would suggest that it's probably the fomitopsa's pinnacola which has recently been renamed i can't think of the name right [Applause] [Music] now so look at what i just found here this is known as turbinellis glocosis or the scaly base or the scaly chanterelle it is considered to be toxic here in the pacific northwest people confuse them for the chanterelle some people call it a false chanterelle technically everything that is in the chanterelle is a false chanterelle [Music] it does look a little bit like a chanterelle so be careful when you're out picking these are known to be toxic cool find them [Music] tada beautiful golden chanterelle and if you look around this area if you look around the area where you find the chanterelle you can see a baby button here another one right there this one happens to be a really interesting find because this was cut a couple weeks ago but look new buttons are starting to grow off of the same stump so i've heard of this happening but i never really believed it it just sounds like some kind of folklore but it really does happen sometimes i guess so if you do cut it there is a chance that this might happen so how about that we're on our hike and i look down to the side and this is an intramine it is a red capped lacinum this is this is a lacinum species and if you look underneath it's also got a sponge it's got a poor surface underneath and that is indicative of a mushroom in the belit family these red capped ones i've heard will make you sick and uh so we're not gonna eat that today if you look at all of this articulation on the stalk that is indicative of the lassenum and they get really really big you can see this is like as big as my head so fun mushroom right here we've came across a pretty cool one very very stout little mushroom look at this little guy super thick very sturdy this is known as a bolitas fibrilosis some people call it the fib king and it's got this very kind of fuzzy cap on it it's got a really kind of fuzzy cap and a lot of this reticulation on the stipe that means these little fuzz and whatnot um i hear they're good eating so i think this one makes it in our basket today and we're gonna take it home to cook try it out so that was a 30 minute walk in the woods we saw seven or eight types of mushrooms maybe more than that i lost track but what an amazing time to be in the forests of the pacific northwest right now mid-october this is the time to be out here discovering mushrooms so go discover mushrooms in the pacific northwest thanks for following us on our journey have a good one mhm you

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Length: 59min 27sec (3567 seconds)

Published: Mon Nov 09 2020