21:08 I contacted you about the velvet footed pax last year and told you I ate it (large one too). Sautee in butter with garlic, it turned a beautiful purple color and was delish with ZERO gastro upset or other nasty effects. Tasted like the Campbell’s cream of mushroom soup mushrooms lol.
Another great video there. Living on the wet side of the peninsula and having an extensive knowledge of fungi, I still find myself watching your videos. Keep it up!
love the content and cool to know all this is literally in my backyard. Im in kitsap aswell and would love to know some of the better trails to keep an eye on
Right now in Southern New England the flushes of delicious bicolored boletes seem to have ended but I am finding Suillus Americanus (chicken fat mushroom) and Suillus Spragueii (painted suillus), several Leccinum or Lecinellum species with prinounced scaber-stalks that I can't ID, and a few "old man of the woods" (strobilomyces). Haven't seen any Dyer's polypores yet, although last year I found one which was 3 feet in diameter. I've seen a few Berkeley's polypores, and I also found a tiny little bright red polypore ball on a rotting tree stump that had some gutation at the base but which I cannot identify. I also found a couple of small Frost's ("candy apple") boletes. We've hit a cool snap and so I expect we'll start getting a lot of flushes in the next week or 2.
At about 5:25 you asked your dog "what's up buddy?" And then you found some mushrooms. Do you think at this point he's figured out why you're out there? I get the feeling he has to recognize some of the smells
@@matifischer23 Yeah I think sometimes they find the mushrooms, right before I start filming and then they pounce on them! Haha. But Loki, the GSP, is a trained truffle dog, so he's pretty amazing.
Hey aaron! I just went to lake Cushman and found my first lobster mushroom! It’s crazy how many more mushrooms grow up in those mountains. Are there any boletes growing up here right now? Or is that more of a cascades thing?
Definitely wish that tapinella atrotomentosa was edible. I did try a nibble, and was quite bitter, so even if it's not poisonous, it'll just be a photography mushroom for me 😅 They're very attractive