Foraging Wild Edibles in May - Spring Mushrooms and Edible Plant Walk

Подписаться 1,5 тыс.

Просмотров 1,8 тыс.

50% 1

Join me foraging mushrooms & plants on another nature walk as we admire all that the forests of the Pacific Northwest have to offer. We'll do some mushroom hunting, identify wild edible and medicinal plants, and learn about some of the historical uses of fungi, native plants, and trees.
Whether you're right here in Western Washington, or situation outside of WA in other regions of the PNW like Oregon, Northern California, or British Columbia, you're likely to be seeing a lot of similar mushrooms and plants popping up trailside along a hike near you. And even if you're in the UK, Europe, or other locations around the world, there's always a lot of overlap...and, hopefully, there's something in this video for you. So whether you're new to mushrooms and edible plants, or a seasoned mycologist or botanist, I hope you enjoy your time spent out here on the Mushroom Trail!
Here's a little bit of what you can expect to see in this episode:
00:00 Intro
00:47 Western Panther Cap (Amanita pantherinoides)
06:01 Petticoat Mottlegill (Panaeolus papilonaceus)
07:50 Corn-Silk Fiberhead (Inocybe soraria)
10:21 Deep Purple Bolete (Xerocomellus atropurpureus)
13:15 Western Redcedar (Thuja plicate) - one of my favorite trees!
19:12 Vanilla Leaf (Achlys triphylla) - one of my favorite native plants!
24:00 Sulfur Tuft (Hypholoma fasiculare)
27:55 Beautiful fruiting of Deep Purple Boletes
31:49 Interesting example of Panther Cap without warts
33:30 Prime Mushroom Habitat
36:01 Nolanea Genus
38:26 Alpine Jelly Cone (Guepiniopsis alpina)
41:09 Black Footed Polypore (Picipes radius)
43:19 Huge fruiting of Oyster Mushrooms (Pleurotus Genus) - interesting studies involving this mushroom and diabetes
47:26 False Lily-of-the-Valley (Maianthemum dilatatum)
48:07 Chickweed (Stellaria media)
48:58 Sweet Cicely (Osmorhiza chilensis)
51:10 Broad Leaved Starflower (Lysimachia latifolia)
53:29 Stinging Nettle (Urtica dioica) and Heavy Metals
55:37 Fragrant Funnel (Clitocybe deceptiva)
57:27 Stinging Nettle Growth x2
58:29 Deep Purple Boletes (Xerocomellus atropurpureus)
1:02:27 Northern Lights - Aurora borealis
Thank you all for tuning in! Hope you enjoyed this episode from the Mushroom Trail!
Can't wait to get the next video out your way - until then... Happy Trails! 🍄

Опубликовано:

15 июл 2024

Ссылка:

Скачать:

Готовим ссылку...

Добавить в:

Мой плейлист

Посмотреть позже

Комментарии : 47

@jamesedwardson605 2 месяца назад

How are people missing you on YT... Keep up the good work and you will make money at this sooner than you think...

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Thanks a bunch for the kind words and consistent positivity - greatly appreciated! This is definitely a passion project for me, so I will undoubtedly continue to get content out your way and continue to do what I can to spread knowledge and enthusiasm for the natural world. In my mind, I'm still just getting started! 😄 Lots more to come! Many thanks - always appreciate you tuning in!

@Beyondfungi 2 месяца назад

Very nice video with a bunch of cool info. Always enjoy your walks 😊

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Glad you enjoyed it - thanks so much for tuning in! Can't wait to get the next video out your way! 🍄

@user-pw2ze5xl4p 2 месяца назад

Thanks for a great video. Enjoy it very much ❤🍄❤️

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Glad to hear! Thanks for tuning in - I'm excited to get the next video out your way! Happy Trails! 🍄

@poot-poot 2 месяца назад

Wonderful video, I can’t wait for the next one! ❤

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Thank you so much! Can't wait to get the next one out to you! Happy Trails!

@brianjanku4549 2 месяца назад

Most mellow dude.

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Thanks! Appreciate you tuning in!

@theorangeguy65 2 месяца назад

This is my first time watching any of your videos. I've been watching Mushroom Wonderland for well over a year now and, being located in N. Idaho, I am thrilled to see more PNW foraging videos! Great video and a great job educating!

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Thanks! Super glad to have you aboard and can't wait to get the next foraging video out your way - just getting started out here, so lots more to come!🍄

@bozhidarmadzharov7066 2 месяца назад

Writing from north-eastern Bulgaria. I harvested several times shrooms and plants already. Most common edible fungi species at the moment: marasmius oreades, agaricus arvensis, macrolepiota procera, coprinus comatus. Plants/herbs i foraged and dried some: stinging nettke, thyme, dock...

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Nice! I love the simple fact that we encounter very similar species in spite of being separated by an ocean. It is always so interesting to see what species are finding their way into our baskets. Thanks for sharing those - and love that you're drying out some nettle ... that's a plant that I'm always glad to have stashed away on the shelf👍

@brandonwong4976 2 месяца назад

Loving the long videos!

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Glad you're enjoying the long-form content - such a joy to make!😃 You'll have to keep your eyes out for mushrooms in the foothills of the alps!!!

@brandonwong4976 2 месяца назад

I’ll be on the look out!

@dcfromthev 2 месяца назад

I’m sad to say that the mushroom season has come to an end here in the Bay Area CA. It got hot and dry at the end of April and we only got one day of rain in May so far, which awakened a few fungi but nothing of interest. Fortunately I am also a plant fanatic and this has been a wonderful year for foraging wild plants! Now that summer approaches my focus will shift to wildlife, there is always something to see out here in coastal California. Thanks for another great video bro, love watching these on my daily commute.

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Oh man! Sorry to hear that - it has been a little on the dry side up here too the past week or so, but fortunately we've got a little sprinkle coming down as we speak. Hoping that things continue to fruit! Nice to be able to pivot to plants though -- the Spring green of this area always catches me off guard. Such a sight. Always appreciate you tuning in! Be well, and can't wait to get the next vid out your way! 👍

@mikePNW 2 месяца назад

Awesome video! Love all the information. Thanks for sharing. By the way, you should be doing voiceover work. You have an incredibly soothing tone.

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Thanks - I appreciate that! Definitely a ton of fun putting these together - can't wait to get the next video out your way!

@lotus.b.lazuli2020 2 месяца назад

All, so so beautiful, thank you! I can't believe how many Panther Caps you find, I've only ever photographed the Amanita Pantherina a couple of times over here. I've snapped many Fly agarics without their spots though, so that's interesting to see the brown cap without them. I can see how you'd easily misidentify that from above at first glance.... so funny to see those bolete cap cups left behind. I wonder if it's just something as arbitrary as a taste/texture preference? Squirrels love mushrooms, I smiled so much when I watched a documentary that showed how they pick them and leave them in bushes to dry out for later; so diligent. You are definitely stoking the foraging fires of the soul with your narration. Food IS medicine. It's so easy to get trapped into holding your microbiome to some toxic processed ransom when you're struggling with motivation. Society makes it SO easy to be sick. It's easy to come up with excuses, but in a way, these days... we each kinda have to become our own shaman/medicine woman, take responsibility, and learn what the body-mind really needs to be happy. Then, there's one thing knowing it, but to apply that wisdom and implement it daily, that's when the magic happens. I only seem to manage it sporadically, but I'm always striving to get back there regardless.

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

I agree - those squirrels are, perhaps, the biggest mushroom fans out there - they truly love mushrooms! And really fascinating to see the way they dry mushrooms and store them for later. Glad to be stoking the foraging fire! A teacher of mine once encouraged me to pay attention to how I felt AFTER eating something rather than before/during ... and to let that guide my decisions over what to consume. I definitely notice that after I eat wild edible foods (especially some of these Spring plants, like Stinging Nettle) I feel incredibly alive. Now I have to remember to be like that squirrel - dry some out and save it for later! 😃

@lotus.b.lazuli2020 2 месяца назад

@@MushroomTrail Haha! Yes, be at one with the squirrels! They certainly know what it's about. What a great lesson that teacher taught you. It's astonishing we have such a huge market for antacids. Food should fuel and sustain, not take you on a rollercoaster and crash you into a brick wall at the end of it; figuratively speaking, sort of.... I'm not afraid to say that I think all life has a mind, an energy, and that, in and of itself, is transferred upon consuming the nutrients themselves. I don't know if you've ever read 'Thus Spoke The Plant' by Monica Gagliano, but she has done some very interesting experiments, and had beautifully bizarre experiences with Bear Root.... I was vegetarian for 15 years and made a conscious decision to start eating meat again as I was very underweight. I decided the first meat I would eat would be venison to really hark back to my ancestral roots, and I felt less bad about it after watching the amazing documentary on here called: "Living Wild: Surviving with the Means of the Stone Age | Survival Documentary" - Lynx is a legend... but anyway, that night, I had a dream I was running through the woods with a herd of deer, and that whole week I felt energised and pulled towards the trees. All living things are under a constant state of influence and evolution, and it's clear to me that when you see any living being in their correct habitat, with everything they need, conditions just right, they appear vibrant in every way... they're happy... when you eat forced grown mono-culture foods, technically, you're eating sadness.

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

I agree! Not familiar with Gagliano but will have to check it out. Very cool story and I'm totally with you on the importance of food and both the literal and figurative exchange of energy that goes on in the process. I was just referencing a similar thing to a buddy that I was foraging with - we were talking about how different it is to consume food (mushrooms, plants, etc) that you personally foraged from a mountain slope, or from the bank of a river, or deep in a forest ... when you consume that food you remember the place, what it was like, the feel of the soil, the smell of the air... there is so much nourishment from the process itself, and when we're more directly involved with it ... well ... there's something to that!

@lotus.b.lazuli2020 2 месяца назад

@@MushroomTrail This is it! - ALL of life is supposed to be an experiential multi-sensory process. I certainly don't feel the same about having to hunter-gather to Tesco Express, as I do cooking up porcini's and chantarelles I've picked myself! Also, The Australian Psychedelic Society posted a great interview with Monica Gagliano. She's been involved in all sorts of scientific debates.

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Funny how we get to know those grocery aisles so well, but often become lost in the forest. 😂 I once saw someone compare recognition of modern company logos to recognition of important shapes and patterns in nature (of easily differentiated edible plant leaves for instance) ... crazy what our brains have started to pattern on, and what we have begun to prune.

@ImFungiHunter 2 месяца назад

Hey Brother Love the Videos. Great stuff , even experienced, I see the things you see here in the PNW but, I always learn something. Love it Thank you🍄

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Awesome - thanks! Always appreciate you tuning in and I'm sure that we'll cross paths one of these day! Did you have any luck out there this past week following the rainfall and increased temps?

@ImFungiHunter 2 месяца назад

@@MushroomTrail Hey there, yeah there was actually a good number of Morels coming up and there were several other groups out in some of the same areas. Thinking this week, now that the rain and temps have changed should help with growth. Working up some of the higher elevations on those sun exposed areas will be good. Nobody had, that we saw, large amounts of Morels , but everyone had some, so thinking this week will also be great. There are a few 2nd year burns in the same area higher up we may check out as well. Not the same quantities but definitely still finding some. How bout you, you get out again or have plans for this week? Pretty sure (almost positive) we are foraging the same areas, as I found your log with all the huge peziza . Got some good clips of them sporalating pretty cool all round. LMK Brother , thanks for the reply and msg🍄

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Cool that you found that giant peziza! Wasn't that thing a beauty?!? And awesome to get some clips of them sporulating too ... such a remarkable sight! I got out on a short hike inside a second year burn (quite a ways south of previous area... likely about 30 miles south) and we came across a handful of burn morels with minimal looking. Wasn't filming that day, but saw lots of interesting stuff. I'm definitely itching to get up to some higher elevation spots at some point in the days to come. Let me know if you're getting into anything interesting ... and if I head up that way I'll try to ping you to see if we can cross paths👍

@ImFungiHunter 2 месяца назад

@@MushroomTrail Hey there MT, yeah sure was. Got a few nice clips of them sporulating. Yeah I know the fire your talking about 😉👍.Not far from where I live. Got a bunch last year but there were 100's of cars around. Heard they were getting some just last week. Might try to go check the areas I found there this week. Pretty remote, from where the main people were looking. I always like going to 2nd and even 3 year burns even when people say no to that ,as there is a continuation of growth in stages, of course the larger and more intense the fires is what I look at for that. Just like finding Morels at higher elevations in the middle of the summer. Springtime comes later at the higher areas. Very cool Brother, yes reach out, be great to cross paths. Good Luck with your outings👊🍄

@masamunesword 2 месяца назад

At 11:23 those moldy parts are likely the start of one of a couple different Hypomyces species. Xerocomellus is somewhat unique in that it can host multiple different species of Hypomyces while other Boletaceae family members only host one.

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Very interesting! The "bolete eaters" on my radar are Hypomyces chrysospermus and Hypomyces microspermus ... I suspect that it was one of those two, but tough to know for sure. I wasn't aware that other Boletaceae can only host a single Hypomyces species (I presume 'Hypomyces chrysospermus') ... I wonder if others are perhaps flying under the radar 🤔

@masamunesword 2 месяца назад

@@MushroomTrail Exactly! Hypomyces microspermus only infects Xerocomellus species while Hypomyces chrysospermus will infect a bunch of different Boletaceae including Xerocomellus.

@lifengjin9510 2 месяца назад

Great video as always!

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Thanks! I appreciate that - see you out there on the trail! 🍄

@francesscherz8720 2 месяца назад

How do you dry out the Stinging Nettles? Air dry or dehydrator? I’d love to make Nettle tea. Thank you I always enjoy your videos and appreciate the scientific names repeated! ❤

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Thanks - so glad you're enjoying the videos! With Stinging Nettles, I typically opt to dry them by placing them in a paper grocery bag. I make sure to give the bag a shake every day for a few days... until they are totally dry. This is an easy and effective way to dry them. Then I typically store them in Mason Jars. Sometimes I'll throw in a little desiccant packet just in case any moisture finds its way into the jar. The Stinging Nettle is one of my absolute favorite plant allies! 🌱

@francesscherz8720 2 месяца назад

@@MushroomTrail Paper bag method. Interesting I never thought of that so thanks for the tip! You and I both! ❤️🌱🍄‍🟫

@vvinslovv. 2 месяца назад

Love your videos! Do you have a recommendation for a channel that covers the NorthEast? I know Learn Your Land already, but is there one that is mostly NE fungi? cheers

@MushroomTrail 2 месяца назад

Thanks! Appreciate you tuning in! And I agree that Learn Your Land is an excellent channel. You also might want to check out a smaller channel that is more NE specific and flies a little under the radar. It is called UNDERSTORY and the few videos of his that I've checked out were really well done. Educational and NE based (if I recall correctly, I believe it might have been Nova Scotia).