More Bolete And Suillus Mushrooms with Adam Haritan

hey everyone I'm Adam Harrison from learn your land and in this video we are going to continue our discussion of boolean swellest mushrooms and I say continue because about a month ago I released another video on bullying swellest mushrooms and in that particular video we look at the roles that various belief species play in our forests we looked at identification of a few species and some common characteristics that comprise this unique grouping of mushrooms and in this particular video we're going to take a look at three new species so I've been hanging out in the forests of western Pennsylvania whole lot lately and I've been finding all kinds of mushrooms especially various belief species and this is a good time of year to get out and look for bullies the weeks of late summer into early fall and it's been pretty rainy it's been humid it's been warm and it seems like bulletin soilless mushrooms really appreciate the season and all those environmental conditions that go along with it so in this video we're going to take a look at soilless americanus the chicken fat mushroom we are going to take a look at swellest Placidus the white's Willis mushroom and also Hirai ik Roma peas the yellow footed bull eat the first species we are going to discuss today is the chicken fat mushroom so Willis americanus so you probably heard of chicken of the woods which is late for us and it's relatives but this one's not really related this is ass Willis specie so it's more related to beliefs and this one is called the chicken fat mushroom because of the way it looks it's kind of yellow and it's kind of slimy almost like chicken fat and you can typically find this blanket in eastern white pine tree forests August through about October at least in the eastern part of the United States and this is a pretty easy to identify edible mushroom so the cap is slimy and it's yellow but it has reddish brownish scales on it so it's not going to be pure yellow unless it's very young and these reddish brown scales don't really come up it's not like it's dirt but it's almost like somebody took cinnamon sprinkled it on but it is attached to the cap so look for that on the underside like most sue Willis and bullet species there are pores on the underside and these are the ends of very long tubes from where the spores are dispersed and these pores are rather large so they're not that close together like you might find in chicken of the woods or turkey tail or other poly pores but they're rather large and appearance if you look at the margin underneath you will see that it kind of hangs out a little bit it's almost rugged in appearance and this is pretty unique for many swellow species or bullet species so look for that rugged appearance around the margin and this is from the partial veil that ripped when this mushroom was growing as you go down the stem you'll see that it's yellow but it's got these little droplets when it's young it can almost appear clear or yellow as it gets older it typically takes on a pinkish or a brownish appearance in this mushroom the poor service if you would scratch it you'll see that it'll stain a cinnamon brownish color and this mushroom drops a cinnamon to a brownish spore print so before you decide to eat this I recommend taking a spore print now as I said this is an edible mushroom however some people experience contact dermatitis when touching this mushroom because it's very slippery so maybe experiment with touching it first and just bringing a few home or cleaning it off before you do eat it you can rub off that slime Innes maybe dry it it's not considered a choice edible mushroom by many people that I know but it is edible nonetheless now a lookalike species might be soilless Americus however this species grows in the western part of the United States if you find a swellest mushroom that looks just like this and you're in the West Coast it's probably Sulis Americas if you're on the East Coast it's probably soilless americanus there's another one so let's sabores however this one grows under quaking aspen and another key identifying characteristic about suppose americanus is that it is mycorrhizal so it works symbiotically almost exclusively with eastern white pine trees so if you find an eastern white pine tree in the vicinity it's probably working mutualistic Lee with the swellest americana species and if you don't know what an eastern white pine tree looks like it's the only native pine tree east of the Mississippi River that has needles or leaves born in fascicles or bundles of five so again this is sue louis americanus the chicken bat mushroom look for the slimy cap the reddish brown is fibrils the little glandular dots in the stem and it's a medium-sized mushroom as well so it doesn't get to be too large if you find it growing in the vicinity of an eastern white pine tree then it probably is the mushroom that you're looking for syphilis americanus the next mushroom we will be discussing is swellest Placidus the white soilless and maybe this sounds familiar to you because if you watch that first bullet video that I released I talked about the dotted Spock so illest so Willis granule artist and it's look-alike which is this once well as Placidus the whites Willis this one's pretty easy to identify because one it's a soilless mushrooms so its slimy but it's almost pure white especially when young so if you're in a pine tree rich forest or a contra rich forest and you see white slimy mushrooms that appear white especially one young then it might be soils classes the white sauce as this mushroom gets older it starts to lose some that sliminess in that white color it turns almost to a yellowish brownish color but when it's young it's almost pure white on the underside this mushroom has pores like most soil species and these pores are white whenever this mushroom is young it starts to turn to a yellow light brownish color one is mushroom matures and it doesn't really bruise so sue Ellis americanus brews the reddish brown color this one doesn't typically bruise the stem is really cool in two O's Placidus because the stem has all these little glandular dots these little droplets that are clears to a pinkish color when young and then it kind of smears and it stains the stem a dark reddish whitish grayish color it's kind of a mixture of all those colors but look for these stains on this white stem as I said before this is mica Raizel with eastern white pine tree so many swirl of species are mycorrhizal with berries conifers this one in particular is associated with eastern white pine trees this one is edible however like so else americanus you don't hear a lot of people raving over this one in particular I would wash off some of that slime maybe dry it out and then cook it up well and again it's all about getting as wild genetics in your body so if you're looking to increase the diversity of your diet maybe include a few swells Placidus mushrooms into your meal plan that was pretty interesting about this species is that there are documented medicinal effects of swells Placidus so study from 2009 and chemical biological interactions that's a journal found that chillin which is a ready for this a tetra pre no phenyl compound I think I said that right at Petra pre no phenyl compound isolated to this that has been shown to be cytotoxic against human liver cancer cells to cytotoxic in the way that it induces programmed cellular death which is known as Apatow sious some people say apoptosis but I was taught by my biology teacher apoptosis I'm just going to stick with that but essentially it induces cellular death with human liver cancer cells now this compound Suellen which is a tetra primo phenol compound has also been found in swells granule audist and it wouldn't surprise me if it has been found in other species as well so it's kind of neat and edible and a medicinal mushroom in the soilless genus now before you eat it maybe take a spore print the spore print furthest mushroom is a cinnamon to a brownish color but again this is almost a pure white mushroom especially when young it's very very slimy it's got these little glandular dots along the stem and if it's growing in association with eastern white pine trees and it's probably suppose Placidus the white soilless the third and final mushroom that we are going to be discussing today is a pretty neat and a very unique one and this one is the yellow footed or the chrome footed bolete pariah chroma Peas maybe you're not familiar with various her aya species and actually there are only two in the entire world and only one occurs in the United States so you're in luck if you find her aya species because only her aya chroma peas occurs in the United States the other one is found in Costa Rica and that's her aya at recep so if you're in Costa Rica watching this thanks for watching this and if you find a hurry it's probably her aya at recep's now her I chroma peas has been shuffled through various general like boletus pilobolus like seinem but as of a few years ago it is now in the Hawaii genus this isn't easy to identify edible mushroom like those other species that we talked about Segel americanus as well as Placidus but this is not a so willis pc so you're not going to see any of that sliminess in the cap but you will find this in association with those other species because it tends to grow an evergreen forest it'll also grow an association with oak and birch trees so the cap of this mushroom is pinkish when young but as it gets older it starts to fade a little bit and it turns tannish brown the underside has pores like many bolete species and the pores are whitish when young and it starts to turn tannishtha brown when older and it doesn't really bruise or stain any colors now some of the main features in this mushroom can be found in the stem or the stock so the stem is essentially wiped throughout however from the center to about the apex of the stock you will see pinkish reddish Scabbers little tiny dots but they're not slippery or slimy like you would find in sue illis they're just little scales that dot the stock and the pinkish red if you don't really see this in many other species now this was placed in the lek sign of genus years ago because of these scapers many Lexile species have these Scabbers but if it's pinkish and it's reddish and it's a white stem throughout then you might have her aia chroma p however probably the most unique feature about this mushroom is actually found in the base of the stock and this is why it's called chrome footed or yellow footed bolete because the base of the stock is yellow you might have to get down on your knees to see it or you might have to dig it up you will see this yellow stock so it's white throughout but it's got a yellow base and it's got the red Scabbers near the top of the stock and it's a pretty tall specie so it's a medium to a large sized mushroom in my opinion it's much bigger than the Swiss americanus and the soils Placidus and this mushroom drops a pinkish to a brownish spore print now Hirai chroma peas yellow put of belief is edible and it's pretty good and it's not slimy like the swallow species that we discussed however the downside is that this one tends to get pretty buggy so almost all the specimens that I bring home have maggots in them so definitely check them in the field before you bring them home and harvest when young because they don't tend to get invested whenever younger as they get older almost every single specimen I've ever found has been infested still really neat mushroom to find look for those scammers look for the yellow foot look for the pinkish to tannish cap and look in evergreen oak birch forest and you may be surprised to find her eye chrome appease the elevated bull eat well I think we'll stop there for today only three species discussed but a whole lot of information and don't forget about that other bullying so else mushroom video that I put out about a month ago you can watch that and add a few more species to your list thanks for watching this video I really appreciate it I encourage you to subscribe to my youtube channel and also head on over to learn your landcom and sign up for the newsletter so that we could stay in touch with each other thanks again I'll see you on the next video you

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Length: 11min 36sec (696 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 08 2016