The elder tree in summer part 2

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Part two of the elder tree in summer. in this part i show how to find and identify a jews ear mushroom

Tags: Jews,ear,mushroom,mycology,foraging,Tree (Ontology Class),Summer,Bushcraft,bush craft,survival,ray mears,bear grylls,cookery,Camping,Food

Video Transcription

okay so I've kind of ventured into the bush a bit more here into the side of the road i am still by a path i'm not in the middle of no way that might look like all this foliage behind me and what I've got here this is quite an old elder tree it's an elder elder if you will and on the rotting parts of this tree there are these little tiny little sticking out things they look like shriveled up little ears now when it's really sunny it's been really hot these things here dry up quite a lot and they go quite hard however they're quite easy to pull off and actually this is quite a good time to collect them when they dry like this or like does make them hard to spot okay so looking at this it doesn't look very appetizing but what you can do is if you put this in a bowl of warm water for about 20 minutes this thing will actually swell up and be huge and it's perfectly perfectly good to eat again I'll put some recipes open things what you can actually do with it because eating on its own it's not brilliant it's not the best texture in or texture in the world and but we're warning if you are going to call out foraging please do not use this video as an indefinite guide don't look at this video and go yes I can go out and identify that thing please just take this as an inspiration go out and get yourself a good book or get yourself on some where wild food course has plenty of them available because this stuff is dangerous these are very very easy to identify I would recommend if you get yourself a book look these ears up in your mushroom book and then go out and try and have a gold findings on there quite easy to find but there are things that look like this which can be potentially quite harmful to you so please please be careful and the same goes for getting the Elder flowers even though they're quite obvious you see a lot them around there are other types of flour which looks similar and sometimes grow in the same place as the elder trees and one of these is the hemlock plan and you really do not want to be mixing up your elder flower in your hemlock ok so thanks for watching and I will be back talking to you about the elder tree next season Thank