Michigan Mushroom Hunt - October

[Music] do [Music] i wanted to show you guys this mushroom it doesn't belong here it's a beautiful chilly october day wearing my sock cap it's my favorite kind of weather but i found this on october 1st and today is october 16th it's supposed to have a hard frost so here in southern michigan i'm going to go ahead and pick this but what i wanted to say before i do and show you this mushroom is i'm going to start doing short minute mushrooms where i just say how to identify it here it is in the field this is the characteristics to identify it this is what you're looking for and this is what you're not looking for and i'm going to do it as quickly and accurately as i can so if you're subscribed just go to the playlist at the top of the page push on playlist and scroll down until you find id list and when you see id list know that it's a series of very short quick videos that i'm going to do on mushrooms of interest that you might want to harvest and eat anyway this this is a very easy mushroom to identify it's also quite delicious it tastes like a meaty portobello this is fistulina hepatica another name for it is ox tongue and another name for it is the beefsteak polypore the checklist for this is it growing on hardwood in most cases oak dead and or dying and this is on a big old black oak i've been harvesting this particular tree for quite a while this mushroom does bloom rarely but in the seasons that it blooms sometimes i can get two and even three harvests but that doesn't necessarily mean i see it every year the identification features of this mushroom are pretty simple i think it's a beautiful mushroom top of course that's where it gets its name ox tongue and it feels almost warty and then it'll get much larger kidney shaped that's where it gets its beef steak nickname but fischelina hepatica if you want to look it up the underneath side of this the pores not gills are usually white when it's fresh and then turns pink and then darkens from there and when you slice this mushroom it'll be streaked like meat it's an absolutely astounding mushroom it's a wonderful mushroom to harvest when you find it and when you do remember the tree and continue to go back top side is red feels a little warty feels like a tongue the bottom side starts out white and then pink and then darkens with age fistulina hepatica beautiful mushroom the honest scented funnel is an absolutely astounding mushroom to find i consider it an advanced level mushroom it's honest scented smells a lot like black licorice and it has a blue green hue but the morphology of the mushroom changes as it matures the fruiting body matures and there's a whole group of them here in several stages and that was kind of why i stopped not only to harvest them but to use these particular mushrooms as a short video of determining what you have now this is a mushroom because it's advanced you need to do your research to be absolutely sure you have what you think you have but the blue green is one of the first signs and it's not a rasula because the stalk isn't fragile it's fibrous a lot of times with a magnifying glass you can see little fuzzy nodes on the stalk and the gills aren't brittle like they would be on a rasula usually the mushroom is nowhere near as big as a rasula and when you're familiar with rasulullah you'll know right away that it's not a rasula it prefers deciduous leaf litter just like the clydosabe nuada or the blue it would blew it so the two things that you're looking for to bring this home and do more investigation is the smell of black licorice or honest and the blue green hint that you have to the mushroom and then you'll note the crowded gills and the way the gills come down creating kind of a pyramid onto the stem it's a really cool mushroom now these mushrooms can be dehydrated and used for flavoring and you'll note the cottony substance that is in the leaf litter that is common to wood blitz and again even though the margin of this is rolled down you can see that the gills want to go up into the cap and create kind of a funnel shape coming down onto the stem again as soon as you pick it get a good whiff get that licorice smell and you can be pretty certain that you probably have clyde acybe adora an edible mushroom advanced skill level i would say and a beautiful autumn find to compare it to clydus ibnuada crowded gills crowded gills very neat finds let's go find some more what makes it easy to identify is its deterioration getting a spore print from this would be very difficult and the one look-alike that seems to be confused with several different mushrooms is called the green vomiter or the green spored brain fart ah green spored parasol sorry anyway the vomiter has green spores and you would be able to cut the stem off of it and spore print that mushroom very easily because it will not turn into a big inky mess of goo and that's what makes the shaggy mane easy to identify now of course you wouldn't want to eat it like this you would want to pick these fresh buttons and when you cut it in half the cross section like i showed you with that one this is a fresher specimen and that's what you're looking for the odor is very perfumey i've always admired the odor of these mushrooms i've always kind of admired fresh blooms of these mushrooms too they're kind of beautiful and they can get quite tall but shaggy mane or copperness comatas is an easy mushroom to identify because it deteriorates and turns into a big inky goo really fast so once you harvest these make sure you get them to the kitchen and get them in the skillet as fast as possible get them chilled and get them in the kitchen look up some recipes for these two because there are some fine recipes for this mushroom i've just fried it and tried it and didn't like it deep fried and battered was pretty good and you can stuff these which is also pretty good using tomato sauce and parmesan makes them delicious what a great way to kick off an october harvest video we've had five days of rain through the first week of october and we decided we're gonna do an october harvest video see what we can't find in october and we just found one of my favorite winter mushrooms the blue it now the morphology of a bluit changes a lot during its fruiting cycle so color is least if any attribute that we might want to pay attention to but when they're young can be quite lilac underneath the stem the cap everything and then it just starts to turn tawny and almost flesh colored the gills will lighten up it'll have a pink or a buff spore print and what's even neater is just a few minutes ago don and i found the biscuit violet coronarius which we're going to show you the difference because it's one of the look-alikes i don't consider this an expert level mushroom but i don't consider it a beginner's mushroom and we're going to use that opportunity to show you guys how to properly find wood bluits which by the way make excellent stuffed mushrooms let's go look at those courts right here i put a bluet next to coronarius of course i shouldn't have pulled the leaves off the blue it because and then right there i did the same thing this is called the biscuit violet court we're going to take this mushroom home and do a spore print for you a lot of times they're even more violent than this they have a very violet stock and if you compare it to the blewit which when it's younger has a very violet stalk you can see that the gills are just slightly darker right here but because i picked it they're going to be even more darker by the time we get it home you can see the violet flesh and you can see that the gills on the blue it are much more crowded than on the courtnerius and i always look for kind of an orange tent if i can and another thing is it's just super slimy it's kind of serendipitous that i was able to find these two mushrooms on the same day they were on one side of the woods and then the other species went the other side of the woods but when we look at this mushroom they look the same now when i picked this and about an hour and a half ago the color of those gills were almost identical now i know one is coordinarius and the other one is the famous wood blood or the blue very tasty mushroom now in a discussion i seen online the other day someone said that they didn't like it when people said in the video that the cap would never be biscuit on the wood blood now stuff does stick to it because it grows through a mat of leaves and decomposing sawdust and i mean that's typically what it grows in so things do stick to the cap but it's not sticky whereas this one the coordinarius you can hear it sticking is sticky very very tacky so here are three you can see how things are stuck to the caps of the cornerius you can see the violet and the mouse gray kind of swirling around in there just like your bullets now on the bluet the gills are much more crowded than the gills on the court areas so what i'm going to do is i'm going to do a spore print for you guys and i'm going to split the mushrooms half on white and half on black which is always a good idea when you're dealing with an unknown species it gives you a kind of a good consensus of what's going on now these three are the same and mushrooms by the way can still be eaten after you do a spore print as long as you don't leave that mushroom on the table for you know three days but usually 12 hours and you'll have a really good spore print sometimes as much as 24 depending on the species of the mushroom now that i've divided these two different species of mushrooms on black and white paper forgive my table i have stuff drying everywhere and hobbycraft going on we're going to make some spur oat caps i'm gonna make some little dudes my daughter made this dragonfly out of basswood kind of cool anyway we got a lot of stuff going blatternut burt oh little house i like oh look little porcupines no porcupines audrey made those out of chestnuts anyway we will be back to see this poor print in the morning you guys can see the color there let's see how that mushroom really darkened up but when we picked it earlier how lilac almost violet those gills were now they're rusty brown since it's been picked and you can see the rusty brown spore print on these slimy or biscuit violet quartz and then these that is the spore print you're looking for it's called buff now these are perfectly edible now that i've done this poor print this poor print does not ruin it you can still eat those mushrooms [Applause] michigan has some really beautiful rest stops we like to get out on the rest stops and just kind of browse and we ran into a bunch of non-aborted entalomas and a antalona of them shrimp of the woods gonna be a yummy dinner [Applause] man the color on that is so pretty there's another one down by your foot which is the one we spotted coming in this one's pretty nice let's go find some more babe [Music] so [Music] so [Music] [Music] bye [Music] uh [Music] we have two species of parisium right here you can see the icicles hanging down some people might think this is coral but this is ceresium coral lodes and these icicles that hang down is the distinguishing feature of this beautiful parisian mushroom and this is bear's head this is bear's head heresium americanum and you can see the icicles hanging down on it these both grow on wood they're a white mushroom they can turn yellow orange and then brown as they get frost better sunburn and age but the coral tooth fungus which is herisium and the bear's head tooth which is heritium americanum show you guys what these look like there's no ring here and the stem gets fuzzy orange on top white spore print this is kind of a velvety little foot this is called the velvet foot or the enoki these are delicious lightly cooked do not confuse these with the deadly gallerina so look up the deadly gallerina and make sure you can identify that before you go picking enokis which are a delicious mushroom that get lightly cooked you overcook them they get bitter they always grow on wood and these are small examples i've seen them as big around as almost as big around as baseballs october last of the trumpets but what's an october video without honey mushrooms i'm almost ashamed to film them so i'm getting the last of the trumpets a bunch of old ones over there i can't pass up trumpets look what i found sweetie i figured you found mushrooms when i seen you put your jacket down and we have no basket these are perfect as long as there's no wormies honeys are notorious for worms i was asked the funniest or weirdest thing that ever happened to me mushroom hunting and i was in a secret spot on public land and i had just walked up and i had spotted several more shallow mushrooms and i didn't want people to know that i was there picking them i had been picking them there for years without other mushroom hunters knowing that this particular spot had more shells in it so after i had walked in to this little nook i'd spotted three or four on the ground and i looked up and here comes a guy with a basket and he's looking right at me so in order to keep him from walking over to where i was at i turned around and act like i was taking a leap but i heard him coming up to my back and i assumed that if i was taking a leak he wouldn't approach me so as i hear him coming right up to me i pretend like i'm zipping up my pants and i turn around and he's standing right in front of me and he starts talking about mushrooms and whether there are mushrooms to be found here and i said a flat out lie like i've hunted here a lot and it gets hunted so often that i rarely find a more shella here and then all of the sudden he looks down at my feet where i had just parked myself in front of one of the biggest gray marshallers in that area that i had spotted thus far when he bends down and picks the mushroom right in front of me oh here's one right here honey the audacity you

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Keywords: Beefsteak Polypore, Anise Scented Funnel, Shaggy Mane, Blewit, Cortinarius, Viscid Violet, Funeral Bells, Shaggy Ink Cap, Aniseed Toadstool, Chestnut Mushroom, Foraging wild mushrooms, mushroom, Shrim of the woods, Entolomas, Brick Caps, Pear -shaped Puffballs, Resinous Polypore, Bluing Bolete, Lion's Mane, Velvet Foot, Enoki, Hericium, Wood Blewits, Ox Tongue, ink cap, Galerina, Entoloma, Polypores, Bear's Head, Clitocybe, edible mushrooms, hunting edible mushrooms, foraging

Id: h0TkhofQ5SA

Length: 27min 22sec (1642 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 22 2021