Foraging Psilocybe Mushrooms with Alan Rockefeller

[Music] welcome to mushroom wonderland [Music] what's up aaron hilliard mushroom wonderland uh this video is for identification purposes only and uh today i'm meeting alan rockefeller here the one and only also met up with uh fungi knight on instagram so um the three of us are going to take a look at these mushrooms so come along mushroom wonderland hit subscribe hit like thanks for watching staying up like port angeles or somewhere in port town something like that there's a place near quinoa that housing iscity oh okay psilocybin is super rare so i got some coordinates where someone found one of those so i'm gonna hike out there and see what i can find nice there's also mycena quinoltensis which is the only mushroom i found that's both fluorescent and bioluminescent oh it glows in the back light and then you turn the lights off and it still glows in the dark oh cool really crazy my cena it's got like a real slimy stem there was some mycena that you had found like i think in mexico that was uh the stem just the stem glows just super full yeah that was beautiful yeah [Music] [Music] so we're in this kind of marshy wetland that's actually not that wet but oh yeah i wonder if it's growing with that crap what what keyed you into thinking about coming looking out here i just looked like a suitable science spot found a couple last year like just small ones and then yeah so do you search around in wetland areas like this for i mean or restoration areas or yeah yeah okay so stunts the eye i'll look at this thing here yeah these are pretty wavy for yeah [Music] see the ring there yeah not too much smell they do have that kind of a removable pellicle uh yeah gelatinous if you tried to peel it i remember that was the first clue i ever was given to identify a philosophy was if you gently pull the cap apart you'll see that slimy layer kind of stay intact ring is in decent shape in this one oh yeah there's your blue ring yeah grind from this piece of grass so cyan essence don't have that ring no they kind of have they can have a ring zone but it doesn't really form a ring quite like that real pronounced this one has a pretty good ring it's just slugs ate it at the top of the cap so it's kind of falling off but the ring's in good shape oh yeah slimy oh these have really really nice rings on them there'll be a lot of good mycelium in this stem base so we'll plant the stem base either in wood chips or it looks like they're growing with the grass so we could just like kind of plant them at the bit at the base of any stalks of grass cool yeah it's you seem to like this kind of tufty hampus grass yeah and also this this thing here where i just pop some out if i stuff this with grass that'll all colonize it'll be really good food for them next year cool so there's little mycelium living in the ground right here underneath that's probably right where i'm walking and it's just waiting for the right time to top its head out and spread some spores they're definitely harder to see here than they are in people's yards and it's just nice grass and they need to see these big patches of them so alan's very careful about how he picks pay attention here yeah well i'm picking these for photography and science so i'm keeping the stem bases attached very cool go find those ones by that white tube well yeah let's see what else we can find how hard is this cell so vodka from folliculosis i have dna sequences of silvanica and i have microscopy of the type collection but i do not have any photos of the fresh so i don't know what it looks like so i don't know the pictures on there the pictures on a shroomer they look super similar to the pelicans probably well the people that did those pictures and shimmery they never did microscopy or sequencing to figure out what they are um and then another one that's kind of in that group is uh santa felosa yeah i used to think that we had good standoff like paul stamis concept of cyanofurblow so it turned out to be a lenient but the real cyanofibrilosa i think is more like a mycenae kind of like folliculosis shape and i don't know if it's actually peliculosa or if it's maybe a different species closely related to peliculosum but i don't have any dna sequences that i can point to right now and be like this is santa fibralosa and uh did you uh you know jeff glossart right yeah yeah did so he found some was that yeah um i actually stopped by his house last year and i took a really nice um photo and in his uh yeah in his yard and he said that he had some i think he gave me a little bit of a sample that i need to process but he said he had some coming up like this year but he doesn't have any right now but i told him to save some dried for me um but yeah i'm just going to sequence a whole bunch of samples and see what i can find and you know maybe hopefully one of them has a sequence that's kind of apart from the other ones um but yeah those three sylvanica folliculosa xanafibulosa they might end up being synonyms um or maybe not you know that's that's there's one group i really want to study and also femitaria people say they have cemeteries um my buddy or i just there's nobody i just met him recently on instagram but he's from england and he found cemetery yeah so all the filmmaker area i have has come in from europe england france netherlands though the sequence of cemeteria is super close to folliculosa there's a couple differences but it's that but it grows up instead uh yeah yeah it grows instead and it's you know it's less mycenoid the cap opens up a little more and uh in cemeteria so yeah let me get a quick picture of all this yeah yeah yeah [Music] hey look at the ring on that super blue oh that looks awesome yeah very cool starting to rain a little more hopefully it doesn't rain too much like that so these are yours on the camera eye however you want to say it look how blue the cap on that guy is and there's little pins little look at how blue that pin is that's cool look at that guy oh wow yeah i could definitely see like frost blowing up the pins a lot right oh yeah look at that little slimer so on your way back down to california are you going to go by the dunes out there in oregon port stephens the coast down hit some ads wrestling's on the way yeah i mostly uh find out here from the washington post oh okay a little bit more chill there but i think there's less hunters on the washington coast too it's just like the fort stevens stuff is so well known yeah people flock there yeah yeah these are definitely not as stout and robust as the ones i'd find when i was a kid i remember him just being thick and hearty we'd tear him out by the handfuls you know yeah i bet if you took these and threw them in wood chips that would be you know the same sports same culture would be super robust [Music] that's pretty cool there bird egg is it is it intact cool put that in there with the picture can you tell us a little bit about this species so philosophy stuntsy eye is unusual in celestia because it has a ring on the stem a lot of the species that have a ring on the stem are closely related to cubensis like a vordia sisterta and subregan essence are right next to kubenzus but this one is not related to cubensis it's over by uh celestia semen lanciata the liberty cat so it's uh also closely related to philosophy folliculosa and uh discovered in the 60s named after professor daniel stuntz and it's really rare where i live in oakland it gets a lot more common the further north you grow so relatively common here it likes both wood chips and grass this spot here is neither this is kind of like a riparian zone with lots of alder and willow it seems to like it pretty well right here yeah cool [Applause] yeah we would find it in sod and like uh grass new grass new housing developments and it was just super prevalent around here uh but it seemed like after one or two seasons all the places just dried up and there was some rumor that people were spraying fungicides because it was just attracting too many teenagers walking around in their yards at night that's probably not true probably not true so i think they just ran out of nutrition wherever that sod came from they ate up what they needed and they they moved out huh is that what you is that exactly yeah whenever the mushrooms go away people think that yeah they sprayed some fungicide or stopped feeding the cows something but it's it's really just mushrooms have good years and bad years and then when they eat up all the nutrition and area they'll move somewhere else you know they're slugging that one oh do you think the slugs are getting uh you know slugs are affected by psilocybin or not i heard something about psilocybin maybe being a defense mechanism for the for the mushroom or something huh yeah a lot of people say that though i don't think mushrooms really need defense mechanisms because they benefit when you know insects or animals eat them it's just when the spores are just released naturally almost all the spores fall right in the ground next to the mushroom very few of them get caught by the wind so if they can get an insect or an animal to eat the mushroom they'll spread the spores a whole lot better so i think saying that phil simon's a defense against insects doesn't really make a lot of sense for that reason because they really benefit from any insects that would eat them we're humans huh for sure they have you know they haven't been along humans haven't been using psilocybin very long uh compared to the evolutionary time scale so i don't think the psilocybin mushrooms uh this little cyber evolved to attract humans but it certainly works that way today this one has a really nice blue ring oh beautiful get that a little shot somehow macro shot yeah so that's not from spores huh that's just from bruising yeah it's the silos and polymerizing which causes the blue color and yeah okay so that little little fragile little ring is basically just bruised from the minute it tears away the ring just bruises really easily apply dries out when it dries out then the silicone oxidizes would you leave behind little pins like that regularly do you think yeah you definitely don't want to pick pins because something like this it has much much less psilocybin than it will when it's fully grown it's more potent by weight so if you have a hundred pins you'll have uh you know more you know if you have one gram of pins it'll be a lot stronger than one gram of full grown mushrooms but a hundred pins will be way weaker than 100 large mushrooms so you want to leave pins because they keep producing psilocybin as they grow also a little thing like this it uh hasn't released any spores yet so if you pick a big mushroom like this it's been throwing spores into the air for a week and uh you know something like this hasn't had a chance to do that yet so i'm picking this one just for the photo because i want one of each stage of development but almost always you know something little like that i'll always leave it good to know it's really blue blue green color yeah or something like this you can see it's it's fully mature it's not going to get any bigger so this isn't really a pain it's just a grown fruit that didn't have a lot of food so if these are growing on wood chips or there's a stick or root that's dead in the ground they'll get really big because they have a lot of food but when they're just trying to subsist on like decaying leaves here that's just not much nutrition for them so a full grown one is only this size it's malnourished kind of puny so if you find a patch that's in wood chips or vice versa like grass or leaves could you use that or would that be able to be transferred into the new food source like oh for sure yeah it's all the same kind of culture same sort of thing so this is the same genetics as you would find in wood chips they're just a lot smaller because they're not fed as much so if you put the stem buttons absolutely putting stun muscle here into wood chips would be a great idea there's a little old beater like it it's had better days for sure a lot of yeah a lot of uh mycelium there though yeah for sure that'd be a great thing to plant in wood chips just take that old wood chips because old wood chips are already colonized by other fungi but if you find fresh wood chips that are only been there like a few months or less then that's the kind of wood chips you want to plant it in especially if it's a shaded area and especially if it's irrigated wow good to know so mushrooms don't like the sun and the wind very much no just because it dries them out if it's irrigated they can colonize all summer i guess would that be one thing about the picker puck if you pluck them for certain species just cover the ground up so the masculine doesn't dry yeah yeah yeah i certainly don't want to leave like exposed mycelium that'll dry out you know the best thing is if you can uh pluck them and then put sawdust or fresh wood chips in the little hole where the sketch is really like transferred and stuff more so yeah like whenever i'm picking chanterelles i'll kind of tuck tuck the dirt back in and then take that stem base and throw it under another tree of the same species that's maybe a few hundred yards away and doesn't have chunk trails yet get some liberty yeah his liberty cup spot is awesome i got nice photos there last year this one hell of a roach clip you got there right is that what that is they call it a third hand it's for soldering but i carry my backpack just so i can take you know one mushroom or one group and just suspend it up in the air and get macro shots with it [Music] [Applause] whoa [Music] whoa big boy [Music] this big boy oh biggest one yeah oh some nice pins back here yeah that's probably right biggest one we've seen today and healthiest [Music] oh yeah it's pretty nice [Music] cortina crazy fibers attaching the cap to this type when that tears away that leaves that little blue ring [Music] microscopy is really hard a lot of species are very close microscopically and then without dna sequencing you just don't know like how much variation there is in the species that's a really nice one it took me a few years of practicing with the microscope to really be able to getting useful information out of it it's pretty complex there's just like thousands of like amorphic shapes that you compare with thousands of other shapes from the literature it's hard [Music] [Music] so what are you holding there so this is philosophy peliculosa all right this is a northwestern variety further south i've seen it at salt point state park in sonoma county california but it gets a lot more common in oregon and washington it was described from right near florence oregon that's where they discovered it in the 1940s this is kind of a woodland philosophy it doesn't necessarily need to be in the city wood chips yeah i don't think it really cool so if you're out getting your chanterelles you might run across some of those guys look at how blue the stems are going [Music] [Music] [Music] thanks alan appreciate it and uh all right that was super cool man getting to come out with you guys and pick these mushrooms today so yeah i can't wait to see the video [Music] you

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Length: 23min 29sec (1409 seconds)

Published: Fri Nov 26 2021