This mushroom is called king Stropharia or wine-cup mushroom. when it's young the cap will be a little bit purple, but now it's it's brownish and If you do a spore print for the mushroom, you will see a purple spore print. Actually, you can tell from the appearance of the gills. It's a little bit purplish. But these two are a little bit old to old to harvest. Here's one it's over here and another one is here and The third one. Let me see, Yeah, it's here. actually, this one is still very fresh. you can see that it's cap is still very purple very young. So at this stage, I think the perfect time to harvest the wine cap. Now here we have five wine Cap mushrooms. These three are mature mushrooms. these two are younger ones. You can see at the younger stage, the mushroom has a partial veil, Which is this one. This partial veil protects the gills of this mushroom. when they grow older, the partial veil will fall off, and degenerate into the ring on the stem. These rings can fall off as well. You can see this one. It doesn't have that ring. so to identify the wine cap, you'd better take a spore print. These are pretty old wine cap mushrooms you can feel it's very soggy here. There's a party going on here - here Very excited to show you what we.. what I fount here. Check this out This is the morel mushroom. still edible? I don't know but it's very strong, very sturdy and growing just beneath this dead tree. Maybe it's elm tree, but I can't tell because there's no leaves only some barks over here. But yeah, okay this is exciting right? very nice morel! This mushroom is called dryad's saddle, or pheasant's back. It usually appears in spring, around the same time when the morel appears. This mushroom belongs to the polypore family. It's an edible mushroom. But when it grows like a larger than you hand.. larger than your palm, it will probably be too old to eat. But I think you still can eat the outer part of the mushroom that tends to be a little bit tender than the center part. So pheasant's back really likes moisture. I usually find this type of mushroom growing on the log near the river, like this one. so this river really provides up now a lot of moisture for this mushroom to grow. The pheasant back has a very pleasant taste, some people think it tastes like a watermelon. It does have a very fresh interesting flavor. So on the other side of the river I found a very nice patch of oyster mushrooms, they look very fresh. Similar to the oyster mushroom, the deer mushroom tends to grow on the rotten wood. Like this one. and the usually appear in spring which is the same season as oyster mushrooms. Usually deer mushrooms only grow singularly but oyster mushrooms grow in clusters, and another important difference between the deer mushroom and the oyster mushroom is that the stem of the deer mushroom always centers on its cap, but for the oyster mushroom, It's not very symmetric. So if you're a beginner mushroom hunter, pay attention to these details, these characteristics I just mentioned, then you will not be confused by these two mushrooms. But even if you cannot differentiate these two mushrooms, don't worry, they both are edible. personally, I don't quite like the deer mushroom because it has a little bit of the earthy flavor and this favorite remains even after it's fully cooked. Also the deer mushroom tends to be very soggy when you cook them. So these two features make them not very delicious. I really don't recommend eating them. This mushroom is called crown tipped coral mushroom Like the car mushroom is very easy to identify by its appearance. Right, It looks like a coral, right, this type of mushroom has its own unique feature if you look at a very very closely You can see there is a some... the tip of the mushroom is like a small crown. So that's why it's called a crown tipped mushroom. Right, so this type of mushroom is edible, it has a little bit the peppery flavor. But be careful one harvesting coral mushrooms because many mushrooms in this species are poisonous. So here's another patch of crown tipped coral mushrooms. notice that these mushrooms only grow or generally grow on rotten woods. So if you see other coral-shaped mushrooms grow on the ground, you need to take extra caution: they might now be the crown tipped coral mushroom. They may be other types of coral mushrooms, which might be poisonous. Can you see the chicken of the woods over there, yeah Take a look at this This is the chicken of woods. This is earliest - chicken of the woods I have ever seen. It's only mid of May You can see it from distance because of its bright color. And by the way, this is a good example of a mushroom with bright color being not poisonous. So chicken of the woods belong to the polypore family Let me show you it is polypore, because the underneath of the cap has pores instead of gills. It doesn't have gills like oyster mushrooms or butter mushrooms. These are purely pores. So most of polypore mushrooms are edible.. are not poisonous, sorry, but not all of them are edible. Some may be hard for you to digest. But most of them are not poisonous. Now this one is a little bit dirty it's hard to clean so It's already summer time the temperature is around 90 degrees today We found some interesting mushrooms over here. This mushroom is called gem studded puffball mushrooms. So there are three types of wild puffball mushrooms that are edible: One is the giant puffball mushroom, Another is the pearshaped puffball mushroom, which I have already filmed and talked about in my previous videos. So this one is gem studded puffball mushroom You can see The cap or the surface of the mushroom has a lot of studs so that's why it's called gem studded puff ball and if you cut it in half and The meat should be should be white It should not be dark or brown or anything else. It should be white and this one looks very fresh doesn't have bug holes in here. Another difference Between the gem studded puff ball and pear-shaped puff ball is that you usually find pear-shaped puffballs growing on rotten logs in the summer or fall, while gem studded puffballs appear in the springtime or late spring early summer. And they usually grow on this ground of like wood chips I rarely see them growing on the rotten logs. Yeah, and these are fresh. But when these puff balls grow older if you step on them they can explode there's a lot of spores. That's a that's a interesting way of helping them to spawn. There are so many patches of these mushrooms. Here's one There's another one The their NASA is there's another patch Over there. So this mushroom is called the umbrella polypore. Look how beautiful it is So actually I encountered this mushroom last year the same location and the same time. So this year after three days of raining, I figured maybe this mushroom will come out again Let me pick one and take a sniff of the mushroom. Hmmm it's still very fresh very pleasant aroma. It is called umbrella polypore. Well first because it's a in the polypore family Let me show you the flip side of the mushroom you can see it has a lot of pores instead of gills and I think the shape of the small mushroom is like an open umbrella so that's why it's called umbrella polypore. The cap of the mushroom has a light brown color When it's young it has a light grey or white color. And this mushroom is not only edible, but it's also very nutritious some say it's as nutritious as Chaga and hen of the woods and also reishi mushrooms. It has a lot of anti virus and anti bacteria properties. And it's very tasty as well. Let me show you the environment where the umbrella polypore grows. So I'm a left-hand side there is a bird tree It has very smooth skin. it's very easy to identify, and the leaves, has has shape like this. and on my right hand side is a hickory nut tree So this umbrella polypore grows directly above the ground so it doesn't like the hen of the woods which grows on the stump of the tree. and these two trees actually are very healthy and It's very close to a creek So this creek I think provides enough moisture for this mushroom to flourish. I'm going to take all this mushroom out.
