June Wild Mushroom Identification with my daughter!

thank you welcome to mushroom Wonderland [Music] how's it going everybody this is Aaron Hilliard welcome to mushroom Wonderland glad to be back on another foraging update video here in the early summer it's June in Washington but it's beautiful it's raining so what we've been hoping for it was like the driest warmest May ever he's getting really worried that we were just not going to see any more mushrooms till fall but luckily it's beautiful it's gray it's rainy it's house northwesterners like it so we're going to go out into the woods discover what kind of mushrooms are growing out here right now and I'm the vice president of the local mycological Society in Kitsap County Washington right down near sea level in the Kitsap Peninsula which is in the Puget Sound Basin right across from Seattle and we have a pretty moist habitat here but we do have dry Summers so we're going into what could be a dry long summer so this rain is definitely welcome and there are mushrooms that are popping up out here right now so let's go into the woods and check out what mushrooms are growing and I'll help to describe them for you and uh we'll have a good time so make sure to hit that subscribe button and come with me into mushroom Wonderland [Music] came across this pile of probably Maple logs right here to see um this paziza cup fungus growing on it so these these cup these ASCO my seats so they're kind of related to morel mushrooms you might recognize these they like to grow in Gross places on Old plywood and things like that but look here's even an even bigger one but as I look over here look at the size of this thing holy smokes I've never seen a cup quite that big that's a big kaziza cup bigger in my hand it's huge really dark color this one's definitely old but look right over here oh here's some more nice big ones so these are not the auricularia or the uh the woodier oh cool there was a bunch of slime mold that fruited right here recently probably like yesterday and it's already just like toast but uh look at that guy oh man that's huge another another big one down there another big one over there so I've heard that these are like edible and stuff but Never Enough quantity to really ever want to try to eat them but if if I ever did you know this is the time a lot of paziza cup so these are an ascam I see they produce their spores a little differently than your average cap and stem mushroom these have little tubes called ASCII that produce spores and they actually eject the spores out um pretty forcefully with a little like a little puff of air behind it but that's the same as morels but a lot of them growing right here so they really like this wood and this habitat and this amount of moisture never seen them growing quite that big but paziza cup pretty common and uh that's a cool fruiting of them foreign check this out growing in these beautiful little clusters right down here underneath this uh it's like a western red cedar but it has nothing to do with it because these are saprotrophic mushrooms but these ones chlorophyllum Renee them these ones one of the Shaggy parasols and it's going to have white gills and a white Spore print these ones are a bit dried out but they also will stain a reddish color when they're moist enough these are a beautiful and edible mushroom they could look a bit like chlorophyllum malibudieties which actually doesn't grow here in this region of Western Washington but these ones with the uh the dark scaling really pretty white underneath is pretty indicative of the bruneium a typical around here chlorophyllum racketes is a really common Shaggy parasol and it's a lot shaggier on the cap these ones the the scales are a lot more integrated into the flesh but like I said it's going to have that white Spore print beautiful they do stain a rusty color when they're damaged these ones just might be a little bit too dry though but really nice edible mushrooms growing here on the you know some beauty bark on the side of the road in western Washington so very nice chlorophyllum Burnham so right down here in the grass of the local park we can see a really really common grass mushroom that might be growing in your lawn even this one in the genus paniolis which typically a pretty dark spored genus of mushrooms but this one commonly known as the mowers mushroom really kind of a bland little brown mushroom it'll often have this lighter color around the edge of the margin right here and they do have a dark brown blackish Spore print and some of the relatives of these are actually hallucinogenic mushrooms here's one that's a little bit drier and lighter colored and you can see the younger ones are much darker the pantiolis Cintas or the paniolis cyanescens are all hallucinogenic mushrooms that often grow with cow manure these paniolus phonicii or the mowers mushroom these guys um even though listed in a lot of the old field guides as being hallucinogenic are not um they just love growing in grassy lawns um after some rain or especially irrigated Lawns you'll find these super commonly I've seen them in Hawaii I've seen them in Minnesota I've seen them everywhere and right now in Washington they're fruiting like crazy so no shortage of little brown lawn mushrooms paineolus fonaseckii or the mowers mushroom oh it's fine oh that's beautiful do you know what that's called Aaliyah this one is called the Rishi and it's very soft and very young this one is a medicine mushroom that people make medicine out of so I should move right here yeah it's very smooth and soft feeling and there's another one looks like bugs might have ate it oh whoa look at the big ones beautiful and here's another one right here Ganoderma organ NZ this one the northwest reishi mushroom look at that a little bug on it there's a little bug on this mushroom oh yeah the bugs like to hang out on them look how fresh [Music] probably this one's really fresh though look at that so some people make medicine out of these by making a tea and then they sip the tea so it's growing on an old Hemlock this is a dead tree so these mushrooms like to grow on a dead tree but related to the Ling XI or the mushroom of immortality many mushrooms are I know they really think this tree is yummy look at that but yeah the bug's definitely eating that guy pretty cool find though here in June in summer that looks cool inside yeah Gunner's like come on you guys cool find good job oh there's another young one starting to grow right there you call it the lacquered concrete look how shiny it is I didn't see this one but it's not it's not wet is it no it's dry but it's so shiny but it looks wet doesn't it very cool all right let's keep walking see if we can find any more mushrooms in the woods we see oh yeah [Applause] cool so we have plurotus species these are called oyster mushrooms remember we found these before we found them when we were hiking up by the mountains and so these ones are called oyster mushrooms and people eat them they cook them up and eat them but look there's a baby slug but the oyster mushrooms a lot of people like to eat them but the bugs really get at them so growing here on this little big leaf maple and these are cultivated for Gourmet mushrooms they have gills they're beautiful he's so cute the cutest baby slug ever the Slugs and the bugs they love them some oyster mushrooms see those gills basically go all the way down to the base you could take a clone of this and grow it on on agar put it on grain and just start cultivating this very strain I love baby slugs they're so adorable another mushroom oh yeah cool that one looks like it's oh it's got gills it's a little inoscopy these guys can be poisonous sometimes you want to leave those little brown mushrooms alone don't ever eat that okay unless we know exactly what it is but that one might be poisonous but it's just growing all by itself what Gunner left us don't touch that plant that's that devil's club that thing's got look at those thorns dangerous here follow me these are growing in just a Sandy area next to the house you can see it popped right up out of the sand and there's a couple of young ones that are just coming up right now and through the course of the day and probably by tomorrow they're going to look like this they just deliquest into ink these guys in the copper andopsis family um you could compare them to Copper nopsis legapus or the Harris foot mushroom because when they come up usually these probably aren't even that close to that one because but look it's got a little Toman toast layer I can rub it off really easily with my finger and uh I guess it looks like a rabbit's foot when it's popping out of the soil or the sand in this case but a very fragile delicate little mushrooms and they go from sprouting out of the soil to uh to something like this in about a day so this little black remainder of what was there it's just covered in spores they drip down the spores get there in the soil they get carried on people's feet whatever and uh just continue the life cycle so Michael Beekman he's the he's the copper annoyed expert and uh there's even a Facebook page called this looks like a job for Michael Beekman these might be a job for him because I don't know the exact species but uh I do know they're in a copernopsis Black sport the linky Caps so there you go this is the next morning these guys have grown up into this so not exactly in a matter of hours but copperopsis grows very very fast these kids are all covered in sand and you can see the older ones have just totally wilted away so short life cycle delicate beautiful little mushrooms [Music] [Applause] [Music] man once in a while you just smell fungus in the air I've heard some people claim that they can uh smell masutaki you know from 100 feet away and stuff like that I don't know maybe it's true I mean I haven't experienced that sometimes I get a big whiff of mushroom smell who knows where it could be coming from I don't know if you are one of those people that can smell the pine mushrooms in the forest put that in the comments because it's curious to me and I I just want to know if that's actually true I've hunted a lot of matsutaki I can't smell them same as the prince I've heard people say they can smell that almond scent which I have smelled that but a lot of mushrooms kind of have that smell so I don't know the rain smells so good though [Music] [Music] growing right down here in between these two big chunks of wood it's a mushroom looking a little bit old but I'm so curious as to what it is it's not really obvious to me yet um oh wow so look at that pink spores so not pink gills these are white gills but they have pink spores and that's what's giving it that pinkish hue so this guy is a plutius uh the deer Mushroom probably plutus cervinus um there is a species of this mushroom that is actually hallucinogenic although that one plutus Americans doesn't occur here in the pnw that I know of these can take on a lot of different colors shapes sizes sometimes they're super thick and dark colored sometimes they're a little more flimsy these ones always grow a dead wood saprophytic mushroom and the gills aren't attached to the Stipe you see that and they have this pinkish Hue to the gills because the spores are pink if you were to lay this down on a piece of paper it would leave a pink Spore print generally edible mushrooms although not highly favored don't know anybody that goes out seeking them the plutus servinus the deer mushroom or the deer Shield mushroom real common growing on wood here big Devils Club they even have thorns on top of the leaves you see that yikes and then look at the stem you can see why they call this the devil's club you do not want to mess with this plant although it's used for a lot of things by the native indigenous people here at the pnw a beautiful plant Associates with wetlands this one is actually uh flowering so but not one you want to accidentally fall into it's like the cactus of the pnw me and my daughter Aaliyah are out here in the woods looking for what are we looking for we're looking for mushrooms yeah see what kind of mushrooms might be growing on there might be [Music] amanitas which one's the Amanita can you point at it on my shirt yep you know your mushrooms all right let's go you found some mushrooms yeah yeah what do they look like to you they look like some wood they kind of do look like wood how does it feel is it I feel I feel it's very soft on top huh but they call these Tiger's eyes do you see why yeah they kind of look like eyes huh yeah cold coldrica puranas oh these are like grown together but yeah inedible a little poly pour oh a big fruiting of them huh those are beautiful babe did fine right on the side of the trail culture cup parenthus or the tiger's eye I guess it's supposed to look like an eyeball looking at you can you see that does it look like a little eye Maybe yeah they're pretty huh yeah they fuse together like that it's really weird but these kind you don't want to eat these there would be like eating a piece of wood or a pine cone you want to feel it do you know it's safe to touch mushrooms but just don't swallow them right yeah you could touch the poisonous mushrooms but definitely not eat them that's right do you see some mushrooms on that log look at that big one oh wow they grow on a lot of the logs and stuff this is called a red belted conch they're really hard huh it's just like a piece of wood growing off of this dead tree so this mushroom is actually inside of this tree and it's eating and this is just a little part that we get to see weird huh follow me topsis monsie that's kind of a hard one to say but it's so hard yeah we call it the red belted conch it's a tree conch there's also weird mushroom right here yeah I think it's just a baby of the same thing and there's more growing right here on the end of the log oh we found another one huh so oh look at this kid yeah it's the kid oh there's another one oh another one over there is a whole family of them these ones are called a they're antaloma or nolania holocanoidia the little cone Bell this one is so pretty these ones these ones could be poisonous so we definitely don't want to eat these little brown mushrooms like this you definitely don't want to eat them because some of them can kill you you know that oh this is a cool Plant the rattlesnake plantain it looks like a looks like a house plant that accidentally ended up in the forest huh variegated leaves really beautiful yeah I will feed it this I don't think it works like that but [Music] oh inside somebody dug out the big truffle whoa look at that leaf that's scary wow look at that oh don't don't hurt this one yeah they're pretty I look at all those these are plutious so the deer Shield mushroom big cluster of them wow look at that pink Gill oh this part is so golden yeah they're kind of dried out from the Sun there's another cluster of them right there these are edible oh look at this one it's a kind of pink oh it's a fresh one yeah kind of pink yep from all the all the spores that fell out of those gills made it look pink [Music] right there cool it smells kind of good yeah can I smell it yeah yeah it's not bad or nothing Stripes yeah she found a cool feather Too Blue Jay Feather and uh plutio surviveness pretty common separovic mushroom dumping a lot of sport a lot of pink spores whoa that's cool pretty be gentle with it let's just see what it looks like underneath if we oh wow it looks so pretty underneath it what color do you think those gills are yellow it's orange yeah it's good I think this is a konoscopy or a conocyb some of these are really poisonous little guys it is cool but definitely don't want to eat it yeah I see it well they're the same ones these are these are so on the trail next to this thistle a couple more con ossabi cone caps these ones are really tall skinny stems on them and uh these guys also could be very poisonous they got this reddish orange Spore print there we go colonosubi rugosa ragosa has a ring on the steak this one doesn't a very long Stipe these are some lbms that you should be aware of Dangerous Ones all right so right here it's the next morning here is the it's the mushroom cap on the slide on paper when we move it away huh we can see this Spore print it's a rusty brown color and now we can take that slide and put it in the microscope I'm gonna use the smallest objective we got a trillion spores out of that one tiny mushroom cap so you see those streaks these are all spores has a ton of spores each line is from each kill so I'm going to magnify it more with a larger objective this would really help if I had a microscope that was set up to be capable to have a camera attached to it I'm just free shooting through the IVs with my so in order to tell the Spore size you actually have to measure 30 different spores and I have a little measuring device that you can do it old school like analog but they even make uh computer programs that'll count them for you but not going to get into all of that just showing you kind of what the spores look like all right now we're on the 40 times objective with a 10 times IP so that puts at 400 times objective there they are the spores of the konoscopy and that little dot you see in the middle of the Spore they kind of look like a sesame seed with a little little bump in the middle that little bump is actually a little pouch of oil that will it's a nutritional oil that will feed the germinating hyphae until it finds its own food source pretty magical pretty awesome so there's the spores if we were to run these through like pixie meter it would count 30 spores and all of their measurements and then we could see the exact Spore size or I have a little piece that actually goes into the eyepiece and I can measure these analog and then use the spores to help determine the exact species of these but I'm not going to go to all of that on this video if you guys are interested in that kind of a video holler at me in the comments right on everyone so that was fun and uh thanks for coming with me on this foray here on mushroom Wonderland and I hope you have a good week and we'll see you uh on the next one so take care much love thanks for watching our video please subscribe I'll see you in the next video bye [Music] foreign

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Length: 26min 51sec (1611 seconds)

Published: Sun Jun 25 2023