Thanks for some great information and advice. Just one thought. Right at the start of my mushroom journey, I was told by someone very wise, never to eat forage mushrooms raw. You never know what they've been through before you picked them. Snails and slugs can carry parasites which consider humans a great host, and there's a lot of faeces and urine out there which could have been in contact with your forage. I think always cooking them is good advice.
Grrrr-8 video, I'm learning to identify wild edible mushrooms. I bought some at the local farmers market but I would like to try foraging some myself 😋🍄
loved this teaching, very.effective. found many in the " egg" stage, with the red top peeking out like half hidden Easter eggs in my frond yard in mulch under a couple large bushes. Found 2 mature ones. By evening, the smaller ones had grown to about4-5 inches ! fast ! all characteristics checked off. prominent vulva, yellow stem, partial veil and yellow gills. top is bright red graduating out to yellow. I prayed, then cut them up into smaller pieces. Sautéed them in butter with salt. The aroma while sautéing was strongly but pleasantly cheese..like very good parmesan. Tasted faintly of strong cheese. They were yummy and I didn't die.! thanks for the video.
I love your channel so much! I learn more from you than any other mushroom hunter. It's really awesome for me to find you, too, because I'm not too far away in the Mid-Atlantic region, so a lot of the mushrooms you cover are in my area too. Thank you so much for teaching everyone, sir!
@@OldManoftheWoods Just came out of the woods right now as the sun is setting. I had to run away from a skunk. :p. The thing I don't like about mushroom hunting, though, is finding all kinds of really weird stuff I can't find in any book. Oh well, still fun!
I have a particular breed of mushroom from Koh Samui, and it's characteristics are completely different from regular mushrooms in their species / its intercontinental counterparts. It's really neat as a mushroom grower seeing how a mushroom can completely change with intentional mutation, and careful breeding.
great vid didn't know all that never was in this type of mushrooms only i know there is some edible and that's it now i will look at them totally different propably will not gather them but will loock at those characteristic and try to find the right one
For you foragers out there, please be careful and follow these identification rules. I’m doing a case study at school where a guy completely destroyed his liver and needed a transplant because he mistakenly ate numerous Amanita mushrooms. Stay safe!
Hi! Could you tell me if there are any rules about touching mushrooms? If I am not certain what it is but am investigating, should I be wearing gloves or are they all at least safe to touch but not ingest? also, what is your recommendation for a pocket handbook to take with me on my first mushroom foraging quest? I've become very curious about them and want to learn.
You can touch any mushrooms with your bare hands, as long as you know you are not allergic to mushrooms or spores. but always wash your hands afterwards. I learn mushrooms mostly from google and wiki, and mushroomexpert.com/ as well. I don't think a handbook is necessary or helpful at all.
Thanks for making this video. It has been very helpful in getting me acquainted with this species of mushrooms. I have to disagree with your assessment of the taste as the ones that I have had have been DELICIOUS. I've passed these up for some time because of all the look alikes but I feel a lot more confident now in identifying and consuming them, especially after watching this video. My only struggle with this video is that the ones that I find in Georgia tend to have gills that are yellowish but almost more on the whitish or creme colored side. They are likely not Jacksonii but still a edible variety within this genus. Would love to see a video about other similar species. Thanks again. Love the video!
Thanks for watching. Color is not an always reliable indicator. If the structure is right and the cap is obviously orangish red, then it is a ceasar. Jacksonii's less known twin species (if what you found was not a variant) are probably not poisonous, but given it's in the amanita genus, the safest thing to do is to stick with the most known/well studied species.
This is true. To best of my knowledge, as long as it has all the features you mentioned, especially the red/orange/yellow coloring and the sac, it is in the edible cesarae family. There are only two I know of that look very similar but are not to be considered edible. Amamita Flavaconia and Amamita Frostiana (and the muscaria variants of course) but none of those have the sac. I find it hard to find good detailed info on these mushrooms like what you provide in this video. B/c of the lack of good detailed discerning info and all the abundance of warnings, it’s taken me a long time to get comfortable with eating these mushrooms. But to the best of my knowledge, none of the deadly Amamitas really looks similar to those in the Cesarae family which makes me wonder if the abundance of caution is overdone with this one.
@@justinearnest2141 Many books list its saccate volva as the key identifying characteristic of A. jacksonii. But I will always look for more than one feature. Some of the look-alikes you've mentioned have white gills while A. jacksonii's are yellow along with its stipe. I think that's big. Striations on the pileus and sometimes the annulus. That chevron design on the stipe. The Old Man gave us more. A. Jacksonii are without warts so that rules out many unless the warts have fallen off. Identifying it doesn't mean I endorse eating it.
I think what had always made me a bit nervous is that the ones I typically find in GA have whitish gills. They also have a reddish/orange/yellow, cap, with a sac at the base but are still edible. It’s been hard for me to pin down the exact species that these are.
One really needs a tool like a jacknife, flat-headed screw driver etc to dig out and get a good look at the what is under the stem. If you snap it off you're not seeing it or damaging vital information.
Watch your videos, but this one conssider dangerous. What experienced shroomers teached me is: not to mess with AMANITAS till they didn't full gronwn up, not in rainy days, couse rain wash some of their marks, and aspecially if you hadn't been in the field with sameone who knows them well. Good luck to everyone. 😉
Why would you recommend not eating an edible mushroom ? I often hear people say, do not eat because it doesn't taste good, or because when you cook it, this and that, but in the end, eating a mushroom is primarily to bring nutrients to your body and any edible mushroom has potentially something good to bring to your body, including (sometimes rare) probiotics, antivirals, antibactirial elements which keep us healthy from the guts to the skin. I'd say, eat as many mushrooms as you can as long as you know you can safely eat them with the right preparation if needed.
Eating anything can "potentially" bring something good or bad to you. I have yet to see a serious scientific research that does not use "potential" to qualify the dubious benefits. Perhaps read this www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878614616000180, or something else that is not provided by a mushroom product seller. That said, I do believe the power of placebos so, maybe, if you are sure this 100% edible mushroom is not potentially polluted somehow.
@@OldManoftheWoods I do search alot about mushrooms and their properties, known or not by the scientific world. I think we should rely more on experience rather than science alone as we are probably missing on things that science will take dozens of years to reach. I like to listen to people like Paul Stamets, people who are honest researchers trying to bring more people into mycology. I read on an official page of the government that psilocybe mushrooms are poisonous mushrooms that can cause death.. this is an outrageous lie. That kind of thing makes me think that they don't want people to experience mushrooms for themselves, but of course, always taste a very small bit before you eat one you have never tried before and then increase slowly to make sure it's not harmful. We would quickly know which mushrooms heals what type of disease. It would be great :)
@@OldManoftheWoods In the article you sent me, they talk about chaga which is a mushroom extract I consumed for weeks under the form of a powder. It is one of the "superfood" that has the highest amount of antioxidant in the mushroom kigdom from what we know. They also say some mushrooms have caused liver problems. They should mention then, that some of these mushrooms are very powerful detoxifying agents. If you start taking them in too high concentration or too often while never detoxifying your body before, then your liver will receive all the junk that is extracted by the mushroom and then your liver will be filled with bad toxic waste which indeed can cause it to be overwhelmed if it happens too fast. In the end, a good mushroom can bring about bad effects but only if you don't understand how it works or if you consume it in large quantities without making sure your body got used to it. Thanks for your videos anyway, nice work !
If you plan on mushroom hunting for the first time, you should not try to pick this one. I’ve been hunting for 20yrs, i still wouldn’t be confident enough to eat this one comfortably, the look alikes are too poisonous
After 2 years of finding and handling this mushroom I am now confident enough to try as many bright Amanitas grow here. All kinds. I found one mature one and one egg. The mature one didn't have a distinctive volva and no annulus. Discard. The egg hatched overnight and had all features. I still came back to reference this video before cooking. Thx old man...
great video! i just wish you had whether or not the mushrooms in the quiz were edible or not edit: why make a 9 minute long video and wait until the end to say you dont even like it lol
