Mushroom Foraging Part 2

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all right so here's our yeah I'm not swallowing I'm just kind of shooting it up to see if it's got a peppery taste I was told by a mushroom expert from Sweden today that as long as you don't swallow the flush you're not gonna get poisoned even from a poisonous mushroom but I'm real confident this one's not poison anyway not really tasting the peppery taste but I like pepper a lot and I just spit a dip out so that could have something to do with it to be honest with you but I'm pretty convinced that this is exactly that it's that ground coil mushroom coral mushroom and there's quite a bit of it in this area so again I'm pretty convinced this would be an edible type mushroom and if it's got a peppery flavor to it it would be good for seasoning soups and things like that so this is what I'm doing right now is I'm making a tent study of mushrooms I'm gonna go to Sweden for two weeks I'm gonna be with a mushroom expert over there for part of the time I also been an expert from Sweden online today who is willing to train me the next time I go to Sweden who lives near Stockholm so I'm gonna take advantage of that as well I'm also going to pick his brain quite a bit online as I'm identifying these different types of mushrooms but again this is one of those mushrooms that doesn't have a poison look-alike and it is very easy to identify and that's why I like it I just try to stay away from anything that could be poison or has poison look-alikes just like in the plant world that way I know when I grab it at least it's not gonna poison me it may not be the best tasting thing in the world and that you're only gonna know by putting in your mouth but it's not gonna be poisoning afternoon guys Dave Canterbury with self reliance Outfitters and the Pathfinder school I started this video off with a little bit of a blog on some ground coral type mushroom walking on the trail I've come up into an area where there's a few beech trees I'm actually looking for black trumpets don't know that I'm gonna find him but a good indicator is right behind me here on if you can see him in the camera but there's some chanterelles back there and there's some big beech trees right in this area so that's a good bet there could be some black trumpets in this area but while I was doing that of course I'm always looking for new things to try and take back to identify picture-wise like we discussed yesterday and I found this muster I mean I've seen quite a few of these today while I've been out and it's a guild mushroom you can see looking at it but it's not extruding any of the latex like the one we looked at yesterday I have positive identified the one from yesterday as well as an edible mushroom but not necessarily palatable mushroom and there's a difference there just because it's not poison you can eat it doesn't necessarily make it palatable so I went through the description on this and I found a great almond waxy cap here in the book and I read the description that it talks about how the gills are tightly spaced to loosely spaced that talks about the sunken cap it talks about a bumpy feeling on the top and it talks about it being sticky and it is sticky when you touch it so all of those things lead me to believe that's what it isn't says it's an edible mushroom now it says it's also fragrant and I'm smelling it it's a very fragrant mushroom it's smells almost flower like so I'd say it's a pretty good bet that we're onto something here I've taken several photographs of this mushroom to take back with me to do the usual steps that I talked about yesterday and since yesterday I've also met another mycologist from Sweden who I've talked to quite a bit and he's also verified a few of my things that I was unsure about that I've identified out here but I was kind of unsure whether I got the right one or not it's really weird sometimes because there's a lot of missing information out there on some of these mushrooms and some of them are very difficult to identify but I'm pretty sure I'm onto something here so I'm gonna bump him when I get back home after I hunt few more mushrooms up and we're gonna talk about a couple more species that I found out here that I positively identified and kind of just show you what they look like that are species that are very difficult to confuse with something else I would not consider this a species that was difficult to confuse something else I would consider that more of an advanced situation there but things like the chanterelles we talked about yesterday very hard to mistake them for something else so those are where we want to start off as far as beginning with edible mushrooms and things like that and again a lot of this just boils down to this is my food bank you know long-term thinking self-reliance thinking if I find large beds of these different types of mushrooms they're gonna be there every year there the fruit of the mycelium like we talked about yesterday so they're gonna be there every year so if I find these larger beds of certain types of mushrooms that I know are edible like these chanterelles and things like that I can go back there year after year harvest take them home dry them eat some fresh dry the rest rehydrate them later use it for soup stock cheese and / soups use them with meats and things like that I've ever rehydrated so you're giving yourself a supermarket in the wild that you understand where it's at what time of year it's there and you can go back after it again and again and again we should also talk real quick before we move on to something else a couple things that I didn't mention yesterday you getting hurry when you're shooting video sometimes and you forget things and a couple guys reminded me of some of the things that I missed when you are recording your findings with a mushroom to go back and try to identify it later other things that you want to understand are what does it smell like if you cut it open does it turn color there's a stain a certain color what kind of trees was it found around what kind of environment was it found in what time of year was it found in all those types of things are important bits of information it write down to help you more positively identify the mushroom correctly all right guys so we're out here in an area of pine now I've been a area of white pine tree planner and this mushroom here it's called old man of the woods and this one's pretty far past it this is not edible anymore it's pretty much done we'll see if we can find a better example for you but it's another one of those mushrooms that is very much identifiable we're not mistakable for something else I want to show you a better example of it if I can but this would be one of the top 10 that I would say you'd want to start off with in identifying animal mushrooms it's in the bowl a family it's called old man of the woods okay I have fully identified now this is a purple guilt mushrooms what I call it we'll talk about where this is out in the book and the characteristics of this mushroom real quick again pretty unmistakable with those purple gills lots of these in the pine forest okay so let's talk about this purple guilt mushroom real quick so we can discuss identification now I've already verified this mushroom through a couple different sources including my buddy at some oncologist in Sweden the picture that's in the Audubon Society guidebook does not look very much like the species that's here but when you find that picture which he's got purple gills and you look up the purple guild liqu area right here and you read the description first of all you look at the picture in the show it's got an offset Club shaped stem on it which this one has right then it goes on to talk about it and it says that it is convex becoming flat sometimes upturned sometimes wavy dry and purplish and brownish now I have as well as faded to great gray and white now I will tell you that with this mushroom I spent an inordinate amount of time identifying this one because I found this one several days ago and spent three days messing with this in different parts of the environment out here in the wildlife area in the pines is where I've always found this and I looked at several species specimens in different stages of their life cycle before I was sure what I had because I was nervous about it guild mushrooms and make me nervous at any rate the gills were attached and distant broad thick and purplish so we've got that if you look in there you've got thick widely spaced purple gills in there fibrous rigid gray white stock purplish to brownish tones it's got a purplish tone to the stock if you look at it and the stock has a purplish tone to it in the right light it season is July to November grassy areas open oak woods that says here now there are Oaks in this woods but this is mainly pine and there are oak and the other woods I found it in but again it was mainly replant pine again this is a replant area of this Virginia pine but it predominantly was a hard wood force to begin with so I kind of have to set that aside east of the Great Plains pretty much that's all you got this large fluffy is a fleshy Licari is often found in quantity in the fall and as good when mixed with other foods so it's not something that is you know gonna be tasting fantastic all by itself but it's good when you mix it with other foods especially soup stocks and things like that I've been told and so it's important to understand this again because this is your grocery store if you can find these in quantity and I know a place where there's probably 50 of these right now growing in a pine area like this we're in right now where this is a single one there's about 50 of them in that area if you understand those areas and you know them in your head then you've got that supermarket you can just go to when the time is right and get what you need take them back dry them cook them whatever you're gonna do with them so anyway just a little bit more on how I go about identifying some of these mushrooms I'm gonna go and break this one open for you we'll split this thing down so you can kind of see what it looks like cut in half again staining is important if it tells you that that mushroom is supposed to stain when it's cut you want to note that but you can see those purple gills in there now and it is not staining it then saying about it staining in the book so that's another good indicator all right let's move on and find some more old man of the woods ok so here's a couple of small old man of the woods this one right here is probably in the best shape look you can see it hasn't turned block on the inside yet this isn't a bowl a family as well a Bullitt family how are you choose to pronounce if this is considered a choice edible mushroom and again it's not very hard to misidentify this a couple here's another one still really in good shape not too hard to misidentify that thing it's pretty much black and it's furry feeling it's got like hair on it it's not difficult to figure this one out and the picture in the book I'm gonna show you real quick is close to a dead ringer for this thing so it's really easy with the book as well you can just turn this to the bowl a suction you get into the section with the bullets in it there it is and you're just blessing others right there he is old man of the woods pretty hard to not or to misidentify dot mushroom that's another good one alright guys well we're headed out I've seen a little bit today and again this is just a secondary part and you know the way I go about learning mushrooms and fungi both edible and medicinal because they have both properties depending on the species that you find or choose to harvest

I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I thank you for thing you do for our school for business for a family problem our sponsor instructors affiliates and friends and one last time let me just say don't consume a wild mushroom that you haven't been able to fully identify cross-reference it with the old guides as well as two to three other sources that you trust I'll see you guys in the next video