I cannot thank you enough for this video! Since I have first seen it, I have been able to correctly identify, harvest and then grow my own Turkey Tail mushrooms! I found some in a local wildlife park last fall and this spring, took a couple samples home and proceeded to tap them around my wooden garden beds with mulched pathways in between, and now this fall I am having them grow from the boards, which I have also been able to positively identify as Turkey Tail! Thank you again for making this video! I hope to use my now organic mushrooms for truly natural medicine!
This is the best video I've seen on Turkey Tail identification! Good job Jesse! So many are confusing them with those others, even with Reishi. Now I have a place to refer them to. :)
You are making one of the best types of identify videos, the only better option is to actually identify it outside, so this says a lot! Looking forwrd to more mushroom id vids😊
Excellent video. My fiancėe has been diagnosed with cancer twice. I am looking to grow them and have been studying up on it. Your video is clear and concise. I am sure we have spotted them on some of our nature hikes after watching this. Going to try and grow, anyway, but will be searching soon the next time we hike. Thanks.
This is by far the best video about turkey tail mushrooms I have found! Thank you! I love specific the well done images, superb footage and perfect text and information.
I went out today and gathered some true turkey tails and found all the look a likes and took pictures of each one on the front and back .Time to make a little tea!
Thank you! This was by far the most helpful identification video that I have come across for this species. I have struggled to positively identify turkey tail on my property. Turns out I have turkey tail, stereum ostrea, and violet-toothed polypore on my property...so thankful that I can finally tell them apart and start harvesting next season.
Have you identified Turkey Tail before? What is your favorite detail? Let us know! Don't forget, you can download the photographic Totally True Turkey Tail Test via this link! - feralforaging.com/get-turkey-tail-test/
Thank you so much!!! What a great source of information! I’ve been searching for YEARS for an excellent Turkey Tail ID as well as how to tell them apart from look a likes. Your video was very straight forward and easy to understand.
I have located True TT that were quite large. Very beautiful distinct brown, gold and tan tones on fan side. White banded edge. Very white and smooth on the underside. Tight pours. 2-3 inches across. And 1/8-- 1/4 inch thick . The downed tree was covered in hundreds of them . I harvested about 1/2. And used them. When I went back Two years later, I expected the tree to have regrown a new flush. It had not.
I love it, thank you so much for this valuable info.. I'm loving in the UK and I've found a lookalike but a very renounced yellow colour, same structure/texture and grows on dead wood too.
I'm sure many would like more videos on other mushrooms, e.g. - Chanterelles (Cantharellus species), Black Trumpets (Craterellus species), Maitake (Grifola frondosa), Chicken of the Woods (Laetiporus species), Shrimp of the woods (Aborted Entoloma), Honey Mushrooms (Armillaria species), Hedgehogs (Hydnum species), Lacterius species ("Milk mushrooms"), Lobster (Hypomyces lactifluorum), Boletes (Boletus species), Chicken Fat Mushrooms (Suillus species, esp. S. americanus), Chaga (Inonotus obliquus), Shaggy Manes (Coprinus comatus), Oysters (Pleurotus species), Lion's Mane (Hericium species), Beefsteak Mushrooms (Fistulina hepatica), Blewits, etc.... and also could talk about how you can eat things such as 'false morels' (Gyromitra species) if you prepare them correctly (same thing works for many types of mushrooms usually not considered as edible in the Western world). For foraged plants, it'd be nice to see: Spring Beauty, Ostrich Fern, Wild Leeks, Garlic Mustard, Rubus species, Acer species syrups (other than sugar maple, e.g. - box elder, silver maple, etc.), Cob nuts ("Hazelnuts"), Asparagus, River or Black Birch (Wintergreen Oil!), Willow, Wild grapes, Wild strawberries, Wild parsnips (here need to mention dangerous look-a-likes & talk about phytophotodermatitis dangers!), Watercress, Wormwood, etc., etc.. EDIT: Spelling & Additions.
Artist Conk! Those babies are much thicker like a whole clam rather than flat. The bottoms are white, but when you bruise them, it turns brown. People would draw on them or write messages and send them. They are also very hard like cork wood. They are not turkey tails. However, they are related to Reishi and make good tea!
This is awesome, thank you so much! I'm currently diving into the shroom world and foraging overall. Been looking for good videos on the topic and feel extremely lucky to have found yours right away. Guess it's a sign I chose a right direction 👩🌾 Oh and I love your style, felt like hanging out with a good friend 🙃
Awesome video man! Turns out I have two different kinds of False Turkey Tails in the woods behind my house. One is stereum ostrea. The other I'm not sure about, but it has gills and is nowhere near as vibrant. My google camera led me astray! I almost made False Turkey Tail tea!
Wow above and beyond thank you for sharing the knowledge so clearly I’m using the video for sculpting purposes I’m going to sculpt turkey tails on to the mold of a turtle shell I painted to be albino with real crystals poking out of the shell!
@@FeralForagingsure was. I took a bunch of pictures of what I thought are Turkey Tails and posted them on iNaturalist. Next, steps is to prepare them. Seriously going into Mycology. Thanks, man!
Saw a bunch that I suspected were Turkey Tail and I have to go back and double check. They grew in a similar fashion across the fallen log but it seems like one the 'false' kinds you talked about. Hoepfully I am proven wrong and can harvest some true Turkey Tail! Thanks for the video! 🙂
Today I found in the wood a perfect turkey tail on a log. It meets all criteria. On the top of the mushrooms I found white fluffy stuff. Can this be mycelium? Can I still harvest those mushrooms covered with white stuff?
So i got out an dthougt i found some, they are little bit older cause the have dicoloration on the undersite but they do have all the identifications right expect the white ring aroind t he edge. are they still right or should i throw them away?
I have found some Turkey Tail on my property. It passes the test in flying colors. Question: How do I store it? How do I prepare it for consumption for medicinal use? Thank you! Great video.
I thought i found a bunch of turkey tail but later found out it was Trametes ochracea.. maybe you don't have that where you live? I think it looks very similar, but more brown on top and thicker.
Great video! Mine meet all 6 of the test but do the colors or shades vary in the Turkey Tail? Such as one area or another... Mine does have the white on edges. The back side is also very white. Mine does not look like any of the look alikes. I didn't realize it had pores until I put it under a light and I had to squint to see them. It indeed does and they are so tiny. I live in a Woody area and have a downed tree and it has what I believe to be turkey tail. I just second guess myself. I'm so new to forging. Thank you.
@@FeralForaging Thank you so much. I went and got a few more. I could bend them. No stiffness. I love how soft they feel. It's like velvet. I'm a new sub. Glad I found you.
Hello!! and thank you so much for this information!! I mam having trouble identifying a relative to the Trames Versicolor and is the Trametes Ochracea... any pointers ?? THank you in advance
And is one of the look-alikes does it meet all of the criteria but it is a little thicker than the thinner turkey tail? Or is there a true turkey tail? That is also a little bit thicker if it meets all the other criteria?
This grew In my garden it but it’s harder to identify due to the heavy rain it became black BUT it still has the white border at the end it completes every test as it still has some vibrancy and velvet color should I trust it?
The one I found passed every test but I question the thickness. The one I just found has a thick brown fibrous base about 1/4 in. thick. Can you tell me if it's useable?
If it's dried and beige on the underside, is it unsafe to eat? Also, the ones I found didn't have white on the outer edge, was pale on the tops but still super varied in color and they almost entirely formed somewhat cone-shaped. Like the edges were always slightly or sometimes very much higher than the middle if you held it in your palm. Other than that, it fit the description to a T Edit: They look exactly like the ones at 2:06. Is that a picture of turkeytail or one of its lookalikes?
@@FeralForaging Thanks for letting me know! What IS its purpose, if not to be eaten, though? I've seen people make it into tea to boost the immune system. Is this all it can be used for?
@@ech9817 it is the most studied and among the most beneficial medicinal mushrooms. It is a recognized cancer medicine in the east. It has known preventative anti cancer properties. It has anti-inflammatory properties (which could benefit even things like ADD.) Eastern medicine prescribes it for low energy/lethargy, and while I dont know much about the chakras or anything like that, I'm not arrogant enough to discredit thousands of years of trial and error.
@@ryanbright3078 I know a lot about "the chakras and anything like that" and there's no link mate you're getting two very different fields mixed up due to not knowing much about either of them. Philosophy/psychology and medicine. Turkey tail does 100% have medicinal benefits, pretty much every compound in this universe does in some minute way. How effective is it? Is it worth using human resources on compared to other chemicals? No one knows yet there's not been any actual "trial and error" done besides a couple clinical trials in Japan that were way too loosey goosey for anyone except the arrogant to form an opinion from.
I would recommend using something the reddit for getting a direction on an ID. I get a lot of ID requests, but I cannot confirm ID of specimens online.
I don't know of any of the other fungi mentioned here to be explicitly poisonous, but I've never used them before nor do I know of anyone who uses them. I personally wouldn't.
Mine has met every specification, but on the bonus tip where you said they have the white margin they dont have this. Is it still a turkey tail? It looks the same colour as the gilled polypore but i looked with a microscope and it has the turkey tail pores.
WHY am i only seeing a " dislike" option on your video??? RU-vid is disqusting- They don't want people to have the tools to forage and survive whats coming
I have cancer and can't afford processed capsules, foraging is not an option. I can get the whole mushroom dried, but I don't know what to do with it or how to dose. Then there is the storage problem they will spoil. I can get the whole mushroom dried, but I don't know what to do with it or how to dose. Everyone keeps secrets it's a closed community with no good open source info, those in the know looking to cash in.
Ive you can get the dried mushroom, its fairly easy to preserve and process for use. Usual daily doseage is .1 to .5 grams. You can pulverize in food processor or coffee grinder.
