I get the biggest smile on my face whenever I start one of these vids and see you standing out in nature ready to drop some knowledge on us, always a treat that helps open my eyes to unending beauty of this world. keep it up Adam, you're doing great work :~)
You know, Staghorn Sumac, it smells like citrus when you peel the bark in the spring. The red fuzzy berries can be used as a spice, and make a pink lemonade like drink.
Wintergreen proper is actually a low growing ground plant with smooth green leaves and red berries. It was originally difficult to extract due to it needing a fermentation process to release the Wintergreen flavor as well as the small limited volume of plants. This is why they eventually switched to birch trees to produce "Wintergreen" . We used to enjoy picking Wintergreen leaves while hunting up in the mountains near Franklin PA. You would chew them and pack then in your cheek like a tobacco chaw and let them soak. After a breif period they would begin to slowly release the Wintergreen and be nice and refreshing. Regarding the FDA and Sassafras...What a travesty. One of the most retarded things that they ever did. As you mentioned the concentrations that rhey were dealing with were enormous. They used a concentrated syrup similar to maple syrup where they had to boil the sap down like fifty to a hundred gallons to one then noticed a slight increase in carcinogenic behavior....needless to say my one or two glasses of Sassafras tea I enjoy per year is not going to hurt me...i would be much more concerned with the pesticides sprayed on EVERTHING around me!
Not too often you learn something from a TH-cam comment! xD I love adding wintergreen leaves and birch twigs in my tea cup, it makes a very strong brew. I’m jealous of your sassafras findings, I’ve yet to see any in my area of upstate New York. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right areas. One of my friends said she has seen a couple in her time in the woods. Also, I hate the nanny state who placate to the lowest common denominator. Our culture is so sensitive, like our aversion to wild mushrooms and food. Like you said, the FDA does some retarded shit. They want to besmirch wild medicine and strengthen the pharmaceutical industry. Same reason cannabis had such a hard time gaining acceptance. It’s also the reason they want us deathly afraid of Covid, so they can make a trillion dollars on vaccines, but I digress.
I used to pick and eat wintergreen for the early part of my life, too. Until moved out of its range. It grows in Michigan and the northern half of Wisconsin too. I used to like the tender red berries the best. The leaves had a little bitterness to them as well as wintergreen. But the berries were just sweet and wintergreen. 😋
This New York boy has to head out west sometime. There’s a few mushrooms out there on my bucket list. Nature has a broad spectrum and I’m only familiar with one color of it.
You may have solved a ridle for me. Once apon a time I used to be a truck driver and one winter I was out in Utah and Collorodo. The aroma of the smoke from peoples chimnies was magnifacent. I almost stoped driving to knock on somebodies door to find out what they where burning. But alass I had "promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" :)
You make learning fun. ❤ are any of the other trees edible? I would really love to learn about what trees are edible and what parts. I hope u do or got a video on that.
Tree-of-heaven is an invasive tree species found in much of the United States. The spotted lanternfly, a non-native, invasive, and destructive insect new to the United States, prefers tree-of-heaven as a food source.
Hi Adam. Love your videos. Could you possibly make trips to other parts of our country (A lot to ask I know) to make videos. Specifically the midwest. Where live you mostly have to focus on that area. Would be cool to see you explore and make videos in other parts of North America. Peace ✌
Great vid. Was waiting on the spice bush to appear. Of note, some folks as allergic to tree of heaven and while just scratching and sniffing might be okay, those with the allergy might be cautious. Take care!
Anyone wishing to captivate themselves with the smell of spicebush , I have about 1000 of them I need removed so I can run some maple tube. Sniff until your heart is content.
It's a shame I'm just now reading this I love spice bush to me it's like a holly tree took some out of the woods and put in my yard I make tea with it and mint I love to go to the Appalachian trail where all you can see is spicebush in the fall it's golden yellow for far as you can see
I guess I'll start to smell the trees i find too :) . I'll try to figure out if there are more trees that have specific smells that allows them to be identified by smell. Thanks for the tip.
I have to say I don’t subscribe to many channels but yours is one of few. I’m gonna say this as a compliment but you NERD SO HARD on your content and I appreciate that because I share the same enthusiasm and often leave people bewildered by it. It’s refreshing to find a like mind. Thank you for the effort and enthusiasm you put into your content. I’m soaking it up from central missouri.
Bay laurel wood smells like its flowers. I learned this when everything above ground on my 16 year old bay laurel died in the 2021 Texas winter storm. Even 8 months later when I cut wood down it smells like the bay flowers.
Adam can you help clarify what trees or mushroom combos to avoid ? I’ve heard of chicken of the woods growing on pine making people sick but also about the how some such as cauliflower mushroom are a delicacy that seem to love pine and not give any issue? It’s very confusing arra
I know of 4 black walnut, sumach, river birch and sassafras I use to think spice bush was a tree. Didn't mean to brag I saw the title and thought of it as a quiz so I put down my comment before watching the video this has been my passion since I was 8 but I don't claim to know it all I have a lot to learn mushrooms are my hardest plant to identify I will not attempt to pick them and I've never hunt
I really enjoyed your videos. You have educated me on many plants in a way that I can understand. You have a pleasant voice and a great big smile! Thank you.
@@LEDlightisNasty Thank you! I lost over 300 pics I took this year of various types of fungus. I don't even really mind. Finding them was the point. I am very lucky to have the opportunity to hunt for them.
Good report, Adam, Thanks! You will not be surprised to know that the ideogram for pleasant-sounding "tree of heaven" in Chinese characters is essentially "tree that smells foul"! Happy Thanksgiving!
CorwynGC never really understood or appreciated the smell of trees...until I brought home some birch polypore mushroom and made tea....few weeks later while walking in nature I passed a birch tree and the air I took in was miraculous.was so cool to be able to identify that smell and appreciate nature for giving me opportunity to have such a joyful aroma.
I live in Central PA and I'm so glad I found this channel!! I've been looking for a good source of outdoorsy information for PA and now there's a whole channel of it! Thank you!
I'm glad to see someone talking about smell as a key to identification. I've sometimes seen things about the medicinal/food properties of the elderberry, but rarely does someone mention the smell - which is very distinctive.
Happy Thanksgiving Adam! I love your videos. You helped me be confident in identifying so many natural foods this year; My favorite was a maitake I found in Harrison Hills (PA). It lasted for weeks! Keep doing what you're doing, it's awesome work.
Thanks for all the wonderful info! You've really been a great resource for me as I begin identifying plants and foraging (one of many resources, I might add). Any chance we could learn about inocybe mushrooms one day? I'm having trouble just learning about all the cap and gill mushrooms out there, even with several mushroom groups.
I love watching your videos because I am also in SWPA, so I know these plants are in my area and makes me want to go exploring. Would you ever think about doing a foraging class (once the pandemic ends)?
I love these types of identifiers. I'll always remember seeing my first Abies concolor (not knowing what it was) and taking a sample back to the landscaping shop I worked at. A new guy saw what I had, pulled off a needle, and chewed on the end. "Definitely Abies concolor", he declared. Concolor spruce needles taste like a piney tangerine. Thanks for the video!
I'm surprised Platanus (sycamore) isn't on here. It's my absolute favorite plant scent, followed closely by the similar (yet more spicey/christmasey) Comptonia peregrina "sweetfern"
I never thought to "scratch n sniff" branches, but I will now, starting with the trees I do know )) Suggestion: vertical branch backed by vertical lines of the jacket make them pretty much invisible. Hold the branches diagonally with this jacket will make them more visible. GOOD closeups!! Try not to shake the samples. They become a whir of "something indistinguishable in your hand". THANKS )))))
PLEASE READ: My brother just told me that 60% of the bees are gone now due to mite infestation. I'm so saddened to hear this. My friend just had 4 bee boxes that all died and he believes it's due to pesticides. People please stop using pesticides!! Also stop using rodent poisons because it is killing our wildlife. Our already endangered birds like hawks, falcons, owls etc are eating the poisoned mice and dropping like flies here in Canada and all over. Breaks my heart to find dead birds everywhere. Plz do a video on this!! We are all responsible for taking care of this planet and we need to demand change in Gov! It saddens me to see so many poisons being sold in big box stores everywhere. It makes people think it is okay and normal to use them when it is not! Corporate giants are in bed with Gov and they are massively polluting and poisoning our planet!! We need to demand change now! Our future depends on it!! Please share and spread the word!🙏😔 WE ALL NEED TO CARE MORE ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!! #DemandChange #PlantTrees #SaveTrees #SaveBees
Hi, can u feature Split Gill Mushroom, i'm kinda cautious about it, in net while searching, NON says its Toxic. not just "not Toxic", also edible and medicinal at the same time, BUT here how it starts i started mycology by my own, as my project and at first i supposed to culture a Reishi mushroom mycelium in Liquid, and few days, mycelium occur and i thought that was Reishi Mycelium, as i Colonize it using hard wood and many nutritional powder i used, i turns out to be a SPLIT GILL MUSHROOM as they pin, they kinda whitish brown, similar to apricot color, with gills below of its cap, and caps that usually look like finger at first, they kinda small, but grows in packs, please enlighten my mind, about split gill mushroom . THANKS EDIT: they smell kinda FISHY. but smell fine...
There's a tree here in Northeast Alabama that smells EXACTLY like old-school anhydrous and red phosphorus methamphetamine. I first noticed it on my teenage years when I was a meth addict. Me and my grandma smelled it and I honestly thought my neighbor had started cooking door again. Today I'm 36 years old and 15, almost 16 years clean from meth but have yet to figure out which tree it is. I'm hoping to figure it out this summer. I have been smelling it since spring started, it's strong at night and I don't even smell it during the day. It's very pronounced during summer. Someone PLEASE help me figure it out!
Impressive Adam... I stumbled upon your videos when searching the name of a saprophytic fungus on a twig that I found on my property. Turned out to be Exidia resisa...not brave enough to eat it despite your recommendation You are a very good educator...botanical names...yea baby...yea!!!!!
I have been your subscriber for a while now and was excitingly happy and surprised you are in Pittsburgh,where I am right now...I immediately sent email to join your website...waiting for future foraging class and walk....
"Smells like the spray of a skunk." ::sniffs again:: And here i thought the Scratch 'n' Sniff was for kids! lol Love your videos, I learn a lot from them and you're a very good teacher. I've been able to identify a number of species in my area (western MA) that share geographical distribution with your area thanks to your videos. (And Tree of Heaven is very, very invasive out here.)
Here in Western PA, we used to have a tree on my block growing up that stunk like...well, butt to be nice. It had long pod-like things (possibly seeds?) that grew on it and we would break them off and hit each other with them (yeah, we were kids). Any idea what this tree could possibly be? It has long been cut down (probably because of how much it stunk). LOL
Ok I'm going insane. There is a smell in the woods that I ride and walk through all the time. All year. So it must smell from its bark and without being touched. It blows through and I catch it all the time. I'm thinking sassafras but Adirondacks and the Green Mountains. Please help. One thing said Linden tree but it really does smell like fruit loops or candy. I'm going to have to go sniff some wood.
I knew sassafras, yellow and black birch, and spice bush. I missed Ohio buckeye and tree of heaven but the 2 I missed don't grow where I live. 4 out of 6 is not too shabby.
Black walnut (Juglans nigra) twigs and even freshly cut lumber also has a distinctive odor, but might not be easy to describe. "Woodsy" is a bit too generic, but once you have experienced it, you learn to recognize it.
Adam commented on sassafras leaves being used as a thickener for gumbo. This is known as file' gumbo ---- just like in the song, "crawfish pie, me oh my, file' gumbo" ---- and is a somewhat different dish than what would be produced if you used okra to thicken the gumbo. The origins and traditions of making gumbo are hotly contested in certain quarters, and people can practically break out into fistfights over how it should and should not be made, what ingredients are acceptable or or taboo, and whether one should thicken the stew with okra or with sassafras leaves. (Food is most definitely political!). I did some reading on the subject for fun, and it appears that no one is quite certain how sassafras leaves came to be used as a substitute for okra; it might have been substituted at a time of year when okra wasn't in season or after a crop failure, or perhaps someone from an okra- producing region moved elsewhere where it wasn't easily available and yet still wanted to recreate a favorite hometown dish as best as possible with substituted ingredients.
Just found this channel and am delighted. On the subject of smelly trees I'd recommend mention of the Katsura tree. A Japanese import that smells like cotton candy from 30 feet away, but not if you get really close to a stand of them. I'm also an 18th century tour guide on a colonial era farm and Stinging Nettle is a part of my every intro tour.
Tree of heaven also called tree of paradise...also widow maker. Because is a pithy tree , soft wood and wind breaks off large limbs which is why called widow maker.
I got the buckeye right away because I have one in my front yard. The dead twigs are also extremely light weight and almost crumble in your hand. Most other trees have twigs that remain brittle for a while after they fall, but dead buckeye twigs don't have any snap to them, and you can hardly pick a branch up without it falling apart.
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I'm glad that I can watch a man sniff twigs for 16 minutes and be completely entertained.
😉😊
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That was meant for the previous reply about being entertained
I truly enjoy your videos and have learned much from them. Thanks!
lol so true
this is literally the best thing I've watched lately. can't wait to sniff twigs
Scratch and sniff foraging booklet on the horizon?
Nice video.
I get the biggest smile on my face whenever I start one of these vids and see you standing out in nature ready to drop some knowledge on us, always a treat that helps open my eyes to unending beauty of this world.
keep it up Adam, you're doing great work :~)
Same here!!!
What a wonderful instructor you are, you have a gift of being thorough and accessible, thank you.
You know, Staghorn Sumac, it smells like citrus when you peel the bark in the spring. The red fuzzy berries can be used as a spice, and make a pink lemonade like drink.
Yes! That is the one I was waiting for, too.
@@anyascelticcreations Yes, and Sycamores have a distinct odor. So do Cottonwood buds, bruised Silver Maple twigs and bruised Boxelder twigs.
I'll be smelling twigs on my walk in the woods today. Very inspirational video as always. Thanks.
Wintergreen proper is actually a low growing ground plant with smooth green leaves and red berries. It was originally difficult to extract due to it needing a fermentation process to release the Wintergreen flavor as well as the small limited volume of plants. This is why they eventually switched to birch trees to produce "Wintergreen" . We used to enjoy picking Wintergreen leaves while hunting up in the mountains near Franklin PA. You would chew them and pack then in your cheek like a tobacco chaw and let them soak. After a breif period they would begin to slowly release the Wintergreen and be nice and refreshing.
Regarding the FDA and Sassafras...What a travesty. One of the most retarded things that they ever did. As you mentioned the concentrations that rhey were dealing with were enormous. They used a concentrated syrup similar to maple syrup where they had to boil the sap down like fifty to a hundred gallons to one then noticed a slight increase in carcinogenic behavior....needless to say my one or two glasses of Sassafras tea I enjoy per year is not going to hurt me...i would be much more concerned with the pesticides sprayed on EVERTHING around me!
Not too often you learn something from a TH-cam comment! xD
I love adding wintergreen leaves and birch twigs in my tea cup, it makes a very strong brew. I’m jealous of your sassafras findings, I’ve yet to see any in my area of upstate New York. Maybe I’m just not looking in the right areas. One of my friends said she has seen a couple in her time in the woods.
Also, I hate the nanny state who placate to the lowest common denominator. Our culture is so sensitive, like our aversion to wild mushrooms and food. Like you said, the FDA does some retarded shit. They want to besmirch wild medicine and strengthen the pharmaceutical industry. Same reason cannabis had such a hard time gaining acceptance. It’s also the reason they want us deathly afraid of Covid, so they can make a trillion dollars on vaccines, but I digress.
I used to pick and eat wintergreen for the early part of my life, too. Until moved out of its range. It grows in Michigan and the northern half of Wisconsin too. I used to like the tender red berries the best. The leaves had a little bitterness to them as well as wintergreen. But the berries were just sweet and wintergreen. 😋
We were waiting for the sweet gum and walnut, 2 fragrant trees.
Adam, I love your channel! I've learned so much from your expertise.
I always imagine you saying "greetings, Earthlings." in your intro. lol
Great informative video! In the Sierra Nevadas of California the Ponderosa Pine has bark that smells like vanilla & it is eatable. It smells lovely!
I absolutely love the smell of Ponderosa bark!
Are you fortunate enough to live in the Sierra Nevadas? Unique, beautiful area!
This New York boy has to head out west sometime. There’s a few mushrooms out there on my bucket list. Nature has a broad spectrum and I’m only familiar with one color of it.
You may have solved a ridle for me. Once apon a time I used to be a truck driver and one winter I was out in Utah and Collorodo. The aroma of the smoke from peoples chimnies was magnifacent. I almost stoped driving to knock on somebodies door to find out what they where burning. But alass I had "promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep" :)
Mcloganator , I’m so glad You have experienced that!
How many rats were really drinking sassafrass beer anyway?
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You make learning fun. ❤ are any of the other trees edible? I would really love to learn about what trees are edible and what parts. I hope u do or got a video on that.
I make tea with spice bush, yellow and black birch twigs. Spicebush is my favorite, probably because birch is so common.
Making an infused oil or tincture out of mature black birch bark can increase healing by 3x the rate.
Well sassafras used to be used as the root beer flavoring.
Another great video Adam, thank you for sharing your knowledge.
Skunk smell is great. From actual skunk, Marijuanas, etc. What a lovely smell. In the right dosage of course.
This was great - thank you! I’d love to see more like this. The more details the better - it’s fun getting to know the personality of each species.
Always professional, informative....a real pleasure.
Haven’t had fruit loops in DECADES? You look so young I thought you were still in your twenties lol.
He could be based on that sentence.
Tree-of-heaven is an invasive tree species found in much of the United States. The spotted lanternfly, a non-native, invasive, and destructive insect new to the United States, prefers tree-of-heaven as a food source.
Cool video, include black walnut in part 2!
All my trees smell like grandaddy Purp Og X train-wreck...
😂😂😍😁
Hi Adam. Love your videos. Could you possibly make trips to other parts of our country (A lot to ask I know) to make videos. Specifically the midwest. Where live you mostly have to focus on that area. Would be cool to see you explore and make videos in other parts of North America. Peace ✌
Fascinating to hear of this means of identification ,:)Terrific ...👍
Tree of Hell is one of the worst smells I know.
Great vid. Was waiting on the spice bush to appear.
Of note, some folks as allergic to tree of heaven and while just scratching and sniffing might be okay, those with the allergy might be cautious.
Take care!
Hey man. Nice videos, happy Thanksgiving
Anyone wishing to captivate themselves with the smell of spicebush , I have about 1000 of them I need removed so I can run some maple tube. Sniff until your heart is content.
Ahh I wish it was more prolific on my family’s property. I gotta scope out some out elsewhere
It's a shame I'm just now reading this I love spice bush to me it's like a holly tree took some out of the woods and put in my yard I make tea with it and mint I love to go to the Appalachian trail where all you can see is spicebush in the fall it's golden yellow for far as you can see
AP...Thx 4 sharing ur time and expertise with us!🌻
I guess I'll start to smell the trees i find too :) .
I'll try to figure out if there are more trees that have specific smells that allows them to be identified by smell.
Thanks for the tip.
Sycamore. Very distinctive. (London Plane Tree)
I would have thought you would include Paw Paw, it has a distinct smell.
Yep
Great fruit tree! Love them.
I always thought sassafras smell like licorice.... especially the root
3:00 - *Sassafras Albidum* Smells like "Fruit Loops." Safrole for root beer!
5:30 - *Betula Lenta* Black Birch Methyl Salicylate smells like Wintergreen
7:10 - *Betula Alleghaniensis* Yellow Birch Also smells like wintergreen
8:25 - *Aesculus Glabra* Ohio Buckeye Disagreeable like Skunk Cabbage - Fetid Buckeye
10:30 - *Ailanthus Altissima* Tree of Heaven Burnt peanut butter/popcorn - Stink Tree
12:40 - *Lindera Benzoin* Spicebush Smells like PineSol
Black walnut is another really good one for our area, I thought I'd see it here.
I know the leaves and husk smelly like lemony furniture polish, is it the same for the buds/twigs?
@@wmluna381 yes, they smell exactly like the hulls, but much more faint
surprised American sweetgum (Liquidambar styraciflua) and wasn't mentioned Sweetgum smells like turpentine and Sycamore smells like human sweat
Do you provide classes for hire? I believe many would sign up who live in PA
Hi Adam! I love your videos! Thank you for being such a great teacher! Love and blessings brother! ♥️
Before this, there was only one type trees i could recognize by smell , if you know what I'm saying 😄
I have to say I don’t subscribe to many channels but yours is one of few. I’m gonna say this as a compliment but you NERD SO HARD on your content and I appreciate that because I share the same enthusiasm and often leave people bewildered by it. It’s refreshing to find a like mind. Thank you for the effort and enthusiasm you put into your content. I’m soaking it up from central missouri.
thank you for making your videos! theyre all so awesome!
Surprised sassafras in high amounts can cause cancer.... haven't seen sassafras soda since the 1960s. 👍
Bay laurel wood smells like its flowers. I learned this when everything above ground on my 16 year old bay laurel died in the 2021 Texas winter storm. Even 8 months later when I cut wood down it smells like the bay flowers.
ILove identifying trees! Thank you for giving me another way to do it. You’re awesome😻
Adam can you help clarify what trees or mushroom combos to avoid ? I’ve heard of chicken of the woods growing on pine making people sick but also about the how some such as cauliflower mushroom are a delicacy that seem to love pine and not give any issue? It’s very confusing arra
Love your work Adam! My only suggestion would be to include distribution maps
I know of 4 black walnut, sumach, river birch and sassafras I use to think spice bush was a tree. Didn't mean to brag I saw the title and thought of it as a quiz so I put down my comment before watching the video this has been my passion since I was 8 but I don't claim to know it all I have a lot to learn mushrooms are my hardest plant to identify I will not attempt to pick them and I've never hunt
I really enjoyed your videos. You have educated me on many plants in a way that I can understand. You have a pleasant voice and a great big smile! Thank you.
so happy i found this channel ive been wanting to get into botany, specifically in northeast america, and this is perfect....
Love your channel! Thanks for the knowledge.
Perfect time for people to binge watch and learn from this chanell
I watched so many of these wonderful, informative videos and learned so much that I impressed my daughter and her husband.
@@70wolfnipplechips41 its wonderful yo hear family's are doing this:) god bless you
@@LEDlightisNasty Thank you! I lost over 300 pics I took this year of various types of fungus. I don't even really mind. Finding them was the point. I am very lucky to have the opportunity to hunt for them.
@@70wolfnipplechips41 exactly, at the end of the day it's the skillset and the interaction with nature that matters. :)
Good report, Adam, Thanks! You will not be surprised to know that the ideogram for pleasant-sounding "tree of heaven" in Chinese characters is essentially "tree that smells foul"! Happy Thanksgiving!
To me sassafras root smells like root beer. I think it used to be an ingredient in Root beer back in the old days!
Happy Friday!
Buckeye can be used to draw oxygen from water and cause fish to float to the surface. Check local laws. Lol
That’s a good survival tip. Pretty sure mullein can be used for the same purpose
Is that the bark or just the fruits?
What do you do to prevent getting ticks Adam?
Thank you Adam for another great video !! 😊
What a great idea for a video, identifying trees by smell. Seriously.
CorwynGC never really understood or appreciated the smell of trees...until I brought home some birch polypore mushroom and made tea....few weeks later while walking in nature I passed a birch tree and the air I took in was miraculous.was so cool to be able to identify that smell and appreciate nature for giving me opportunity to have such a joyful aroma.
I live in Central PA and I'm so glad I found this channel!! I've been looking for a good source of outdoorsy information for PA and now there's a whole channel of it! Thank you!
I'm glad to see someone talking about smell as a key to identification. I've sometimes seen things about the medicinal/food properties of the elderberry, but rarely does someone mention the smell - which is very distinctive.
This guy should be labeled a national treasure
Now I know why it's called Root beer. Thanks.
Thank you Adam! I always love your videos and learn so much.
So great to use multiple senses to identify plants!
How incredibly interesting! Thank you Adam.
Dude, you forgot to mention safrole from sassafras is used in the production of mdma.
...... MDMA.... cause hallucinations ?
Lol
You are just full of great and useful information! Thanks!!!
Never make a video on an empty stomach. 😂
Happy Thanksgiving Adam!
I love your videos. You helped me be confident in identifying so many natural foods this year; My favorite was a maitake I found in Harrison Hills (PA). It lasted for weeks!
Keep doing what you're doing, it's awesome work.
Thanks for all the wonderful info! You've really been a great resource for me as I begin identifying plants and foraging (one of many resources, I might add).
Any chance we could learn about inocybe mushrooms one day? I'm having trouble just learning about all the cap and gill mushrooms out there, even with several mushroom groups.
Thank you for sharing this wonderful information!!!
Spicebush can get 20-30ft tall in the lower Hudson Valley. Here in the hills of the Finger Lakes it's smallish and often dies out within 10-15 years
Excellent resource of incredible information! Tysm🌳🌱☘️
Scratch and sniff! Love how your understory lacks all the invasive honeysuckle we see in Ohio. So open and clear to walk!
Thank you for this presentation.
I love watching your videos because I am also in SWPA, so I know these plants are in my area and makes me want to go exploring.
Would you ever think about doing a foraging class (once the pandemic ends)?
Ailanthus altissima is the species n the book A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
I love these types of identifiers. I'll always remember seeing my first Abies concolor (not knowing what it was) and taking a sample back to the landscaping shop I worked at. A new guy saw what I had, pulled off a needle, and chewed on the end. "Definitely Abies concolor", he declared. Concolor spruce needles taste like a piney tangerine. Thanks for the video!
I'm surprised Platanus (sycamore) isn't on here. It's my absolute favorite plant scent, followed closely by the similar (yet more spicey/christmasey) Comptonia peregrina "sweetfern"
First person I've seen show identity by green limb. Hell yeah!! Rock O!!!
I never thought to "scratch n sniff" branches, but I will now, starting with the trees I do know )) Suggestion: vertical branch backed by vertical lines of the jacket make them pretty much invisible. Hold the branches diagonally with this jacket will make them more visible. GOOD closeups!! Try not to shake the samples. They become a whir of "something indistinguishable in your hand". THANKS )))))
PLEASE READ: My brother just told me that 60% of the bees are gone now due to mite infestation. I'm so saddened to hear this. My friend just had 4 bee boxes that all died and he believes it's due to pesticides. People please stop using pesticides!! Also stop using rodent poisons because it is killing our wildlife. Our already endangered birds like hawks, falcons, owls etc are eating the poisoned mice and dropping like flies here in Canada and all over. Breaks my heart to find dead birds everywhere. Plz do a video on this!! We are all responsible for taking care of this planet and we need to demand change in Gov! It saddens me to see so many poisons being sold in big box stores everywhere. It makes people think it is okay and normal to use them when it is not! Corporate giants are in bed with Gov and they are massively polluting and poisoning our planet!! We need to demand change now! Our future depends on it!! Please share and spread the word!🙏😔 WE ALL NEED TO CARE MORE ABOUT THE NATURAL WORLD BEFORE IT'S TOO LATE!!
#DemandChange #PlantTrees
#SaveTrees #SaveBees
Both buckeye and tree of heaven make STINKY smoke when burned. Both smell a lot like roadkill...
Id avoid using either as firewood.
Hi, can u feature Split Gill Mushroom,
i'm kinda cautious about it, in net while searching, NON says its Toxic.
not just "not Toxic", also edible and medicinal at the same time, BUT here how it starts
i started mycology by my own, as my project and at first i supposed to culture a Reishi mushroom
mycelium in Liquid, and few days, mycelium occur and i thought that was Reishi Mycelium,
as i Colonize it using hard wood and many nutritional powder i used, i turns out to be a SPLIT GILL MUSHROOM as they pin, they kinda whitish brown, similar to apricot color, with gills below of its cap,
and caps that usually look like finger at first, they kinda small, but grows in packs,
please enlighten my mind, about split gill mushroom . THANKS
EDIT: they smell kinda FISHY. but smell fine...
There's a tree here in Northeast Alabama that smells EXACTLY like old-school anhydrous and red phosphorus methamphetamine. I first noticed it on my teenage years when I was a meth addict. Me and my grandma smelled it and I honestly thought my neighbor had started cooking door again. Today I'm 36 years old and 15, almost 16 years clean from meth but have yet to figure out which tree it is. I'm hoping to figure it out this summer. I have been smelling it since spring started, it's strong at night and I don't even smell it during the day. It's very pronounced during summer. Someone PLEASE help me figure it out!
Impressive Adam...
I stumbled upon your videos when searching the name of a saprophytic fungus on a twig that I found on my property. Turned out to be Exidia resisa...not brave enough to eat it despite your recommendation
You are a very good educator...botanical names...yea baby...yea!!!!!
I have been your subscriber for a while now and was excitingly happy and surprised you are in Pittsburgh,where I am right now...I immediately sent email to join your website...waiting for future foraging class and walk....
"Smells like the spray of a skunk." ::sniffs again::
And here i thought the Scratch 'n' Sniff was for kids! lol Love your videos, I learn a lot from them and you're a very good teacher. I've been able to identify a number of species in my area (western MA) that share geographical distribution with your area thanks to your videos. (And Tree of Heaven is very, very invasive out here.)
I will be in Clearfield this weekend. I will be checking out the camp's woods. Thanks for all the information.
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Man your videos are so informative! Nothing unnecessary and all concise and informative!
You are fortunate to not be near red cedar or juniper. They smell like a cat's used litter box and they are taking over the Ozarks.
Lol they smell great
I love red cedar. The "berries" add awesome flavor to meads.
Here in Western PA, we used to have a tree on my block growing up that stunk like...well, butt to be nice. It had long pod-like things (possibly seeds?) that grew on it and we would break them off and hit each other with them (yeah, we were kids). Any idea what this tree could possibly be? It has long been cut down (probably because of how much it stunk). LOL
Such a beautiful boy
Ok I'm going insane. There is a smell in the woods that I ride and walk through all the time. All year. So it must smell from its bark and without being touched. It blows through and I catch it all the time. I'm thinking sassafras but Adirondacks and the Green Mountains. Please help. One thing said Linden tree but it really does smell like fruit loops or candy. I'm going to have to go sniff some wood.
I knew sassafras, yellow and black birch, and spice bush. I missed Ohio buckeye and tree of heaven but the 2 I missed don't grow where I live. 4 out of 6 is not too shabby.
Dogwood ALSO smells like fruit loops though.
Black walnut (Juglans nigra) twigs and even freshly cut lumber also has a distinctive odor, but might not be easy to describe. "Woodsy" is a bit too generic, but once you have experienced it, you learn to recognize it.
Adam commented on sassafras leaves being used as a thickener for gumbo. This is known as file' gumbo ---- just like in the song, "crawfish pie, me oh my, file' gumbo" ---- and is a somewhat different dish than what would be produced if you used okra to thicken the gumbo. The origins and traditions of making gumbo are hotly contested in certain quarters, and people can practically break out into fistfights over how it should and should not be made, what ingredients are acceptable or or taboo, and whether one should thicken the stew with okra or with sassafras leaves. (Food is most definitely political!). I did some reading on the subject for fun, and it appears that no one is quite certain how sassafras leaves came to be used as a substitute for okra; it might have been substituted at a time of year when okra wasn't in season or after a crop failure, or perhaps someone from an okra- producing region moved elsewhere where it wasn't easily available and yet still wanted to recreate a favorite hometown dish as best as possible with substituted ingredients.
Just found this channel and am delighted. On the subject of smelly trees I'd recommend mention of the Katsura tree. A Japanese import that smells like cotton candy from 30 feet away, but not if you get really close to a stand of them. I'm also an 18th century tour guide on a colonial era farm and Stinging Nettle is a part of my every intro tour.
Tree of heaven also called tree of paradise...also widow maker. Because is a pithy tree , soft wood and wind breaks off large limbs which is why called widow maker.
I got the buckeye right away because I have one in my front yard. The dead twigs are also extremely light weight and almost crumble in your hand. Most other trees have twigs that remain brittle for a while after they fall, but dead buckeye twigs don't have any snap to them, and you can hardly pick a branch up without it falling apart.