Fantastic video! This is a full on episode, really enjoyed this format. You’re a natural science educator, documenting the Pacific Northwest is important work that will benefit future generations. 🍄🌏💚
I live out towards Portland. (I'm one of the good one's who stayed behind when the insanity crept in, I swear.😅) Growing up, I always wanted to get more information, and experience identifying, and foraging for the many wonderous plants and mushrooms we have out here in the pacific northwest. Because we have such a huge selection of nature at her best. But the oppertunity to learn as much as I wanted to know, was rarely available. What first peaked my curiosity was a group I was with, finding a beautiful Morel at a camp I was attending once. We got an impromptu explanation and orientation on mushrooms from the guide, afterwards. Thanks for making these. And sharing the knowledge. Its appreciated. And you got a new subscriber. May your journey always bring you knowledge, enjoyment and peace. thanks again.
Nice video Aaron.Always eager to learn something new. Today I harvested a nice flush of oysters and a basket of pheasant wings or dryad saddles.Happy foraging!
Beyond being under the right trees, in eastern Oregon we do look for "indicator" flowers or plants When looking for Morels. Not always with the plants but a good start.
We spent weeks last year looking for Morels being on the eastern side of the US and literally the last week of morels season we found the holy grail and when i mean that literally my girls mom yard had at least 5 pounds our first run !
Well here in Kentucky a deciduous tree is not necessarily a hardwood, eg tulip poplar is soft and we have soft and hard maples! As a person who heats with wood, it is a good idea to know the difference! A soft wood like pine or poplar is great for starting fires, but you need hardwood like cherry or oak to leave coals to get it started again later because they hold the fire but the soft woods turn to dust (ashes) it is easy to tell which you have by the weights, soft wood being so much lighter! Not being critical, just saying. I love the mushroom id videos, and go shrooming very often!🍄🦶🏽
I love your videos, you are my kind of person on the trail, stopping to appreciate all the fungi along the way ❤ thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion
Thanks for another good video. I always enjoy your walks in the forest, you always seem to find some great mushrooms. I sent you a message through Messenger with a link to a great article from the Australian Geographic I thought you would enjoy. I found it very interesting, hope you do to.
Very very informative stuff! Im a western washington resident that wants to get into foraging for edible mushrooms this will help a lot. Thank you for your video!
Hi Aaron - thank you for posting such great info! I went on my first hunt this morning and found some oysters only 15 minutes into my hike! Mostly wood eating finds but also saw a pair of super tiny ones next to a downed tree w reddish orange cap - would like to send you the pic if possible.
This is great man! I like seeing this kind of content out there for others to see and share! I think that Morchella was the species Augusticeps. Not 100% but I'm pretty sure feel free to check it out and see if that matches for you! Take care!
I learned more watching your videos. At a faster rate, you give a lot of information in a single video and I appreciate only learning about identifying mushrooms now for the for this spring starting. But I have the perfect area sprayed around my house and find so many different. I'm on the other side of the country from you in Maine
Been binge watching your videos the last few nights and this is the first video ive seen where you're approaching from square one Ive gathered basics and successfully identified fungi a dozen or so time, but ive been trying new mushrooms when i see new ones at the supermarket I think this video has taught me to learn the schedule and habits of the mushrooms on a deeper level if id like to hunt them more effectively Great work your doing here and i hope you keep it up :) also i live in the midwest so alot doesn't apply but i believe the framework of thinking holds up and i still find much value in
I'll name off a good majority of plants growing around me in my area kinda like I see you doing in this video, I've made a game of it and it's very satisfying to watch people who also know much about the wildlife around them Taking notes man
Hello from North Bend, Wa! It’s been a good year for mushrooms with our extended rain we’ve been having. I think I heard someone call those species of Morels the “wizard finger” not sure if that’s a universal nickname or a local nickname?
I grind up my Turkey tail in a coffee grinder and make a powder out of it that i add to all my meal. I give it to my cat and it has healed him of his inflammatory bowel disease. It’s such a blessing if a mushroom.
thanks so much for teaching about wild mushroom foraging! just moved from pierce county to kitsap and found the videos very helpful since so many other mushroom foraging videos are for other parts of the country. keep up the good work 👍 😊
I live in SW Michigan along the eastern coast of Lake Michigan hard wood climax forest, of 1000 acres with conifers and deciduous old growth trees, My next foraging will be there. Thanks again for the foregoing lessons
You give us great insight on so much. Thank you for sharing. Also you make me laugh every time I watch you. Not laughing at you, just to set that straight. 😉 And yes... beautiful! QUESTION... any chance you come across Indian pipe? Or ghost plant around where you are at? For some reason I can't find any like I use to.
I do find them sometimes In a particular old growth stand..a very mature old forest. Been a couple years though. I'm going to have to keep my eye out that would be a cool thing to put in a video! Thank you for watching 🙏😊🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 yes please. I can't seem to find them at all these days as well. I need to make more tinctures. Thank you so much for all you post , your knowledge showing us all your love of nature and what it brings. It helps us stay on the right path.
Good video and great informative shots and explanations of the different features of each mushroom. It would really help though if you were a little more clear on the edibility of each mushroom. Your a great help on identification, but adding some information about what to do with them would be great.
Started learning about mushrooms just this past month. I am heading to Oregon next week. Any recommendations of mushroom to keep an eye out for and where to look for a beginner like me in Oregon?
Depends on what you want to do with the mushroom! If an edible I would look for Boletus edulis, Chanterelles, hedgehog or matsutake. If hallucinagenic Ps. azurescence on the coast. 🙏🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 I like to eat, observe, and analyze it to learn for my health benefits and the love of nature. Would love to try a psychedelic mushroom sometime in the near future, but I know you can't provide it or share it. Would be nice to find Edible ones that I can take from where ever I hike. That will be a really special experience for a newbie like me.
I grew up in the south I had a step mom from Pennsylvanian and she brought me up there for Christmas one year I fell asleep on the way up there when I woke up I was shocked all the trees were dead I had never seen woods like that in Louisiana our trees are green year round
question..I planted up a bare field out here in W md about 20 yr ago and wondered if some the fir and hemlock planted that are now grown will host mushrooms like you show or does it have to be a native growth. Kind of new to this...thanks for helpful video.
That's actually a really good question. I'm not sure if the habitat and weather patterns and stuff would be right, and I assume that some of the spores would need to land there, and propagate, and then it could take many years before it starts to produce fruiting bodies. I can't answer that question definitively though, but I want to find out more about it!
Hi! I just moved to the Kitsap Peninsula, went on a hike in Port Gamble today and you couldn't walk without hitting a mushroom. I'd love to learn how to identify what I'm seeing. Are there any courses or resources you'd recommend to a complete beginner?
Just started getting into harvesting mushrooms. My brother in-law does a lot of it and got me excited about it. He uses an app called "picture mushroom" which I am just starting to use. Seems to come up with the right one every time we have used it. Wondering if you have a comment about this app? Thank you for your videos, I have learned a lot in such a short time. Happy days from Anacortes WA :)
Hi, I'm big fan of your channel here. Anyway, I'm pretty sure sweetsugarjones is correct, I think those morels are Verpa Bohemica or "early morel". We found a bunch a few weeks ago so I did some research before eating. They are very tasty, though in some books they come with the warning that they can make a person sick if eaten in large amounts, though everyone I checked with told me they personally had no problems when eating them, and some even said they prefer these over the true morels. As always it's probably best to eat only a few at first, and see if there is any reaction. And obviously make sure they are very well cooked.
Definitely not verpa, those have caps that are separate from the Stipe, they are not fused like these ones. They also are not hollow in the center. The cap has more of a wrinkled surface rather than pits like on a morel or Morchella species. There's not even the slightest doubt in my mind that those were some variety of Morchella. I am very familiar with the morphology and taxonomy of verpa, Thank you for watching!
I have found several large baskets of ringers this year anyone else (Tacoma / Gig Harbor / UP / Puyallup areas) also some other Magic’s wavy but more ringers then ever is this for a reason?
@@mushroomwonderland1 Thanks for the info on this book. I think people especially new people that are coming into this mushroom hunting. I have one that I have been caring for quit a few years called: "Common Mushrooms of the Northwest by: j. Duane Sept" Keep up the good video's I really enjoy them. JC 👍
No, verpa have a cap that can easily be removed from the stem. They are completely separable, whereas these, and other species of morel the cap is completely fused to the Stipe and they are completely hollow through the cap and stem.
Honestly I would rather not, I get bombarded with ID requests, there are tons of groups on Facebook dedicated to identification, lots of great books, and the internet goes as deep as you could ever want it to go. I wish I could but it just gets overwhelming and clogs up my inboxes. Mush love though!
My gosh, this video is great as always, but YT pumped no less than SIX commercials for Val Hoyle as I was trying to watch. TH-cam is really starting to become almost unwatchable.
I know, it is unfortunate. I don't have a say in how many commercials or what commercials they run during my videos, the only choice I have is if I want to get paid for them or not 😄 I sure wish I could choose! Sorry about that. Thanks for watching! 🤙🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 As a TH-camr myself, I understand. Not your fault! No accusation on you from me. Keep up the good work, I have learned a lot from you and have some Trametes Versicolor in the dehydrator as I type.
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Fantastic video! This is a full on episode, really enjoyed this format. You’re a natural science educator, documenting the Pacific Northwest is important work that will benefit future generations. 🍄🌏💚
Agreed!
I always learn a great deal when I watch your vids! Cheers man and thanks
Aaron, I love Mushroom Wonderland. Thank you for posting all the great videos!
I live out towards Portland. (I'm one of the good one's who stayed behind when the insanity crept in, I swear.😅)
Growing up, I always wanted to get more information, and experience identifying, and foraging for the many wonderous plants and mushrooms we have out here in the pacific northwest. Because we have such a huge selection of nature at her best. But the oppertunity to learn as much as I wanted to know, was rarely available. What first peaked my curiosity was a group I was with, finding a beautiful Morel at a camp I was attending once. We got an impromptu explanation and orientation on mushrooms from the guide, afterwards.
Thanks for making these. And sharing the knowledge. Its appreciated. And you got a new subscriber.
May your journey always bring you knowledge, enjoyment and peace. thanks again.
Your channel is amazing, and underrated!
I love going on these walks with you! My favorite kind of videos. Thanks again Aaron!
Wonderful grandmother!
Nice video Aaron.Always eager to learn something new. Today I harvested a nice flush of oysters and a basket of pheasant wings or dryad saddles.Happy foraging!
Thankyou kindly for all your teachings. Love ❤️ the content
Our Chanterelles love beech trees!
Beyond being under the right trees, in eastern Oregon we do look for "indicator" flowers or plants When looking for Morels. Not always with the plants but a good start.
We spent weeks last year looking for Morels being on the eastern side of the US and literally the last week of morels season we found the holy grail and when i mean that literally my girls mom yard had at least 5 pounds our first run !
Thanks for the myco rizal. Could never get that straight.
Well here in Kentucky a deciduous tree is not necessarily a hardwood, eg tulip poplar is soft and we have soft and hard maples! As a person who heats with wood, it is a good idea to know the difference! A soft wood like pine or poplar is great for starting fires, but you need hardwood like cherry or oak to leave coals to get it started again later because they hold the fire but the soft woods turn to dust (ashes) it is easy to tell which you have by the weights, soft wood being so much lighter!
Not being critical, just saying. I love the mushroom id videos, and go shrooming very often!🍄🦶🏽
Ur channel is so informative and relaxing
I just discovered your channel and have learned so much already! Looking forward to digging in and learning more about mushies :)
I love your videos, you are my kind of person on the trail, stopping to appreciate all the fungi along the way ❤ thank you for sharing your knowledge and passion
Thanks for another good video. I always enjoy your walks in the forest, you always seem to find some great mushrooms. I sent you a message through Messenger with a link to a great article from the Australian Geographic I thought you would enjoy. I found it very interesting, hope you do to.
Mithophora semilibera. Nice interesting video!
Very very informative stuff! Im a western washington resident that wants to get into foraging for edible mushrooms this will help a lot. Thank you for your video!
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Hi Aaron - thank you for posting such great info! I went on my first hunt this morning and found some oysters only 15 minutes into my hike! Mostly wood eating finds but also saw a pair of super tiny ones next to a downed tree w reddish orange cap - would like to send you the pic if possible.
This is great man! I like seeing this kind of content out there for others to see and share! I think that Morchella was the species Augusticeps. Not 100% but I'm pretty sure feel free to check it out and see if that matches for you! Take care!
I learned more watching your videos. At a faster rate, you give a lot of information in a single video and I appreciate only learning about identifying mushrooms now for the for this spring starting. But I have the perfect area sprayed around my house and find so many different. I'm on the other side of the country from you in Maine
You are adorable. Thank you.
Been binge watching your videos the last few nights and this is the first video ive seen where you're approaching from square one
Ive gathered basics and successfully identified fungi a dozen or so time, but ive been trying new mushrooms when i see new ones at the supermarket
I think this video has taught me to learn the schedule and habits of the mushrooms on a deeper level if id like to hunt them more effectively
Great work your doing here and i hope you keep it up :) also i live in the midwest so alot doesn't apply but i believe the framework of thinking holds up and i still find much value in
I'll name off a good majority of plants growing around me in my area kinda like I see you doing in this video, I've made a game of it and it's very satisfying to watch people who also know much about the wildlife around them
Taking notes man
I wanna get in on your walks and events that u have up coming. I am in pierce county 😁
Hello from North Bend, Wa! It’s been a good year for mushrooms with our extended rain we’ve been having. I think I heard someone call those species of Morels the “wizard finger” not sure if that’s a universal nickname or a local nickname?
I grind up my Turkey tail in a coffee grinder and make a powder out of it that i add to all my meal. I give it to my cat and it has healed him of his inflammatory bowel disease. It’s such a blessing if a mushroom.
You should create a book for Washington!
greetings from germany, i am pretty sure, that is Morchella conica
Love you and mushrooms. Thanks for the video.
thanks so much for teaching about wild mushroom foraging! just moved from pierce county to kitsap and found the videos very helpful since so many other mushroom foraging videos are for other parts of the country. keep up the good work 👍 😊
Great content, great dialog, very relevant.
Thanks for the lessons
I live in SW Michigan along the eastern coast of Lake Michigan hard wood climax forest, of 1000 acres with conifers and deciduous old growth trees, My next foraging will be there. Thanks again for the foregoing lessons
Good video Aaron keep it coming, like seeing the pooch.
Awesome vid my friend as always 🤙🤙i love morels,great season
great content bro, keep it up!
You give us great insight on so much. Thank you for sharing. Also you make me laugh every time I watch you. Not laughing at you, just to set that straight. 😉 And yes... beautiful!
QUESTION... any chance you come across Indian pipe? Or ghost plant around where you are at? For some reason I can't find any like I use to.
I do find them sometimes In a particular old growth stand..a very mature old forest. Been a couple years though. I'm going to have to keep my eye out that would be a cool thing to put in a video! Thank you for watching 🙏😊🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 yes please. I can't seem to find them at all these days as well. I need to make more tinctures. Thank you so much for all you post , your knowledge showing us all your love of nature and what it brings. It helps us stay on the right path.
If you’re ever down around Vancouver, WA hit me up!! I’d love to go hunting
Hello, interested in studying. Any suggestions? Just arrives to bellingham Washington from Cali. Love the fungi.
Thanks so Much, Aaron
Good video and great informative shots and explanations of the different features of each mushroom. It would really help though if you were a little more clear on the edibility of each mushroom. Your a great help on identification, but adding some information about what to do with them would be great.
Another excellent video! This is the #1Mushroom foraging and IS blog for PNW!
Thanks Aaron.
In.the uk oyster mushrooms primarily grow on dead or dying beech trees.which you actually explained really well
Thank you!! 🍄
That intro song is wonderful. I'd like to know the name of it.
Started learning about mushrooms just this past month. I am heading to Oregon next week. Any recommendations of mushroom to keep an eye out for and where to look for a beginner like me in Oregon?
Depends on what you want to do with the mushroom! If an edible I would look for Boletus edulis, Chanterelles, hedgehog or matsutake. If hallucinagenic Ps. azurescence on the coast. 🙏🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 I like to eat, observe, and analyze it to learn for my health benefits and the love of nature. Would love to try a psychedelic mushroom sometime in the near future, but I know you can't provide it or share it. Would be nice to find Edible ones that I can take from where ever I hike. That will be a really special experience for a newbie like me.
Love the videos.
I grew up in the south I had a step mom from Pennsylvanian and she brought me up there for Christmas one year I fell asleep on the way up there when I woke up I was shocked all the trees were dead I had never seen woods like that in Louisiana our trees are green year round
question..I planted up a bare field out here in W md about 20 yr ago and wondered if some the fir and hemlock planted that are now grown will host mushrooms like you show or does it have to be a native growth. Kind of new to this...thanks for helpful video.
That's actually a really good question. I'm not sure if the habitat and weather patterns and stuff would be right, and I assume that some of the spores would need to land there, and propagate, and then it could take many years before it starts to produce fruiting bodies. I can't answer that question definitively though, but I want to find out more about it!
so helpful thank you
Hi! I just moved to the Kitsap Peninsula, went on a hike in Port Gamble today and you couldn't walk without hitting a mushroom. I'd love to learn how to identify what I'm seeing. Are there any courses or resources you'd recommend to a complete beginner?
Just started getting into harvesting mushrooms. My brother in-law does a lot of it and got me excited about it. He uses an app called "picture mushroom" which I am just starting to use. Seems to come up with the right one every time we have used it. Wondering if you have a comment about this app? Thank you for your videos, I have learned a lot in such a short time.
Happy days from Anacortes WA :)
Thank you
no I'm not interested in that but thank you.
Hi, I'm big fan of your channel here. Anyway, I'm pretty sure sweetsugarjones is correct, I think those morels are Verpa Bohemica or "early morel".
We found a bunch a few weeks ago so I did some research before eating. They are very tasty, though in some books they come with the warning that they can make a person sick if eaten in large amounts, though everyone I checked with told me they personally had no problems when eating them, and some even said they prefer these over the true morels.
As always it's probably best to eat only a few at first, and see if there is any reaction. And obviously make sure they are very well cooked.
Like a cross between v bohemica wrinkles & v conica cap shape? But those honking stems...
Definitely not verpa, those have caps that are separate from the Stipe, they are not fused like these ones. They also are not hollow in the center. The cap has more of a wrinkled surface rather than pits like on a morel or Morchella species. There's not even the slightest doubt in my mind that those were some variety of Morchella. I am very familiar with the morphology and taxonomy of verpa, Thank you for watching!
Yo A A Ron how long after it stops raining will mushrooms be around?
can you recommend a website for identifying lawn mushrooms based on appearance (I’m in central Texas)?
I have found several large baskets of ringers this year anyone else (Tacoma / Gig Harbor / UP / Puyallup areas) also some other Magic’s wavy but more ringers then ever is this for a reason?
Indicative, indeed
What is or you would recommend a good PNW mushroom book (field guide) for Beginners and others to have or carry along with them?
One you could take with you, go to mushroomsofCascadia.com and get Michael beugs book, very good and modern Field guide. 🤙🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 Thanks for the info on this book. I think people especially new people that are coming into this mushroom hunting.
I have one that I have been caring for quit a few years called: "Common Mushrooms of the Northwest by: j. Duane Sept"
Keep up the good video's I really enjoy them. JC 👍
Could those pointy capped thick stemmed morels be Verpas, like maybe V. conica?
No, verpa have a cap that can easily be removed from the stem. They are completely separable, whereas these, and other species of morel the cap is completely fused to the Stipe and they are completely hollow through the cap and stem.
@@mushroomwonderland1 Thank you. Great videos.
Come and stay with us on the Mid Welsh/English border and teach me all you know!
I believe it was a Morchella Semilibera,they have more of a point to them.
Is there a way I can send you some photos of mushrooms I found and you can tell me if they are edible or not ?
Honestly I would rather not, I get bombarded with ID requests, there are tons of groups on Facebook dedicated to identification, lots of great books, and the internet goes as deep as you could ever want it to go. I wish I could but it just gets overwhelming and clogs up my inboxes. Mush love though!
My gosh, this video is great as always, but YT pumped no less than SIX commercials for Val Hoyle as I was trying to watch.
TH-cam is really starting to become almost unwatchable.
I know, it is unfortunate. I don't have a say in how many commercials or what commercials they run during my videos, the only choice I have is if I want to get paid for them or not 😄 I sure wish I could choose! Sorry about that. Thanks for watching! 🤙🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 As a TH-camr myself, I understand. Not your fault! No accusation on you from me. Keep up the good work, I have learned a lot from you and have some Trametes Versicolor in the dehydrator as I type.
Great video !!!
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I think that's a fake morel looking at the stem
cut it in half
I can guarantee you that it is not. It is a true member of the Morchellacae family, hollow all the way through.
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@@mushroomwonderland1 mithophora semilibera. 90% sure. I picked it up this last spring in Spain!! Greetings
We call them fake morels. Pecker heads... I would love to send you some picture of some monster morels. As big as mt dew bottles
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