your channel brings me peace & calm in times of anxiety! i love watching your videos at any moment and learning, but i love that i can come here to just watch and be at ease. ❤
Cool video. I've always thought the monotropes are neat, too...I recently went on vacation in North Carolina. Spent half on Cape Hatteras and half on Beech Mountain (in the Blue Ridge Mountains). It was fascinating seeing near opposite ecosystems. Very few mushrooms on the islands, at least that I could find; Very little variety in plant life too (relatively speaking). Once in the mountains it was a veritable mushroom wonderland:) Boletes, Russulas, Fairy Stools (which I didn't know what it was 'til watching this video), and finally a few Reishis growing on Eastern Hemlocks. Hemlocks don't grow in central KY, so I asked the owner of the cabin we were staying in if I could swipe a few of the mushrooms off his land to add to my tea/tincture collection (he was cool with it)...Anyways, thanks for the vid and happy hunting.
At 15:42 those are not actually bugs but isopods, these crustations are detritivores and do an amazing job of breaking down rotten and decaying plant matter into rich soil.
Thank you! No I didn't, just dried and put it there, it's still as beautiful as the day she did it but it shrunk to about half of its size, retaining the detail. So cool!
@@mushroomwonderland1 I'm stealing this idea if you don't mind 😆 My kiddo loves to hike and mushroom hunt with me (I wouldn't particularly call it "foraging" since I'm still learning). Side question. Do you have any recommendations for East Coasters for identification field guides? I have one, but for gilled mushrooms, you first need to determine spore color, then use a dichotomous key to attempt to narrow down genus and species. This works well if the fruiting bodies are releasing or have released spores and you can quickly tell, or can take it home to do a spore print, but isn't particularly practical for a beginner out in the wild. Is this the standard and beginners and identification will become easier as their knowledge increases, or did I just happen to pick up an overly convoluted field guide?
Fomitopsis has medicinal properties similar to ganoderma spp. (artists conk), I use them in an immunity tincture preparation. They’re not as well studied but I’ve read about their medicinal benefits in several books and websites. I love how they sweat, so cool looking!
My mother has lung cancer and almost died last year. I got her taking turkey tails and she said she is feeling good and no side effects. Even stopped taking prescription drugs. So I believe that turkey tails are a cure!!! I wish I could find them up here in North Idaho
Interesting how there are so many medicinal properties of these mushrooms that we dont understand yet. Im not sure if Trametes Versicolor can single handedly cure cancer, but it seems very promising in your case!
We need at least one collaboration with Tony from Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't. 🧐 The ending could be both of you sitting down and doing "Chicken of the Woods" PT2 . Oh the colorful language that will be used if he has the same culinary experience that you did 🤣 SERIOUSLY, love your content. Amazing how many people on Reddit do too. You created a great product! Educational, entertaining, calming, and very light on earths resources 10/10
At 17:46 your Candolleomyces candolleanus graphic says edible but you said inedible in your commentary. Curious which you meant? I really enjoy your videos and knowledge, thank you.
You should watch this video I put out some months back that shows angel wings and their habitat. You'll see the difference pretty quickly. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NppHHL6i4mU.htmlsi=ncGR_RJOFJCSMtLt
Fun mushy walk through the woods… though, for telling us that we can eat or not eat the mushrooms you are showing us, you would need to clarify much more detail about how to actually identify and distinguish the individual mushrooms ! As is, rhetorical video is just a walk-along with very little learning -
That is a good point, most of these kind of videos are intended to be for entertainment, but I should make some more concise videos on how to look at, and identify a mushroom.
@@mushroomwonderland1 Love your channel and think these types of vids are still super helpful, but definitely would appreciate more concise and detailed videos like that!
