It's Not Chicken Of The Woods... But What Is It? 

You need a TV show man. You are an amazing communicator and your love for the subject matter absolutely leaks through that smile constantly on your face. Well done brother.

We can call it whatever we want? Fine. I hereby rename this mushroom, "Adamus Haritanus."

I can't think of one of your videos I don't sit through the entire thing. Your input is invaluable

I love that you don't shy away from taxonomy, botanical terms, or scientific information. Always super informative and fascinating. Keep it up, please.

Interesting I have never heard of this mushroom! On a side note, I discovered that actual Chicken of the Woods goes really well with barbecue sauce.

If its not hapilopilus, its definitely snuffiluffigus. Thanks Adam, great as always

according to my native american eldersw if u burn it its great mostuito replellant

Hey Adam! Just wanted to finally check in and say that I friggin adore you and your videos - don't think my rational mind can calculate properly for what a blessing it is to watch each and every one of your videos and to receive the infectious passion (and brilliance) you emanate about the natural world! Keep doing YOU, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Much love from Asheville :)

Can we call them Saffron chunkybois?

People can make a big mistake when thinking a mushroom looks close enough to what they think it is. Be sure or don't eat.

Another reason it might be critically endangered in Europe is that they manage their woodlands so intensively. If you look at videos made in European settings you don't see many downed trees or underbrush. Maybe the mushroom doesn't have enough habitat if they keep removing downed trees.

GENIUS. ❤ Definitely one of the best teachers out there. So incredibly thorough. Love your videos. Thank you soooo much.

Thanks Adam. We live a long way apart Adam, but we share many types of mushrooms. Your videos have been integral to me finding more edible species. Your attention to detail including the position of gills to the stem have been incredibly valuable. I have a five step process to identifying edible species and so far it has stood me in good stead. Is there somewhere I can share pictures with you? My dog and I search out a lot of them. I had almost given up on mushrooms around my area aside from Scotch Bonnets. This year has been perfect for mushrooms! I have found species I never dreamed grew here. Thanks for everything you do my young sir! You have done so much for me.

Very interesting video. I heard about this mushroom when I was starting to look for chicken of the wood, but I never knew much about it. It’s apparently very rare, even critically endangered, here in sweden. But it has a common name actually: ”saffransticka” - ”saffran” is referring to it’s colour being somewhat like saffron.

Adam, you go out of your way to see a rare mushroom. You are my people!

Thanks! I will henceforth refer to it as Adamporus haritaneus.

I came across one of these a month or so ago (truthfully, maybe longer, time is weird). I was wondering what it could be. It was so big, solid, steady. Very impressive to be near. Thanks Adam!

Thank you so much for this video, I just stumbled across this mushroom yesterday and as you said from a distance I thought it was chicken of the woods. So cool to find out what it is.

I found this mushroom last year while foraging on some dead tree, i almost mistook it as chicken of the woods but was confused because it was just a single shelf, it was in michigan on a hiking trail about 30 minutes from brighton

What a great teacher!!! All humans should know a little about the environment around them. The more you know the more you learn. Great job.

I just found this!! I wasn't sure if it was chicken of the woods. I'm so glad you make these videos!💗👏 I'm a huge fan!! Love you brother!! Keep up the amazing work you are doing!!

I want all the information in your brain about the north east wilderness in my brain.

Thank you! This mushroom has fooled me in Mid Michigan and I just stared at it in confusion. Now to trek back out to the bog and do a potassium hydroxide test to be sure.

Something like that is fruiting near the Rio Grande. I didn't grab any, but it isn't far from chicken of the woods on cottonwood trees.

Hi Adam, can you make a video showing us how to make tinctures or oil? I collected a pound of Turkey Tail the past two days and would love to use them to help me with my cancer treatments, thanks.

I would love for you to talk about Lions mane mushroom. It would be nice to learn about it from you. I have heard that it grows on hard wooded trees but which ones and at what season of the year Also does it grow in America I heard it does but I’ve never seen it anywhere.

I love your videos. Having just discovered your channel I am really happy I have. You create some of the best and most educational content I have been able to find online, and I look forward to the next time you offer your class. We are also working on starting up a small outdoor mushroom grow on our farm in the back 4 acres of woods.

Great valueable intel. I thought the chaga was a ploypore. I applaude your ability in pronouncing all thier chemical names

Outstanding, sir. Thank you, for another brilliant mycoscopic review. You are, indeed, the funkiest fellow mycosapien, on RU-vid.

He pronounces the scientific names so easily, they just flow!

Absolutely fascinating to see the mini cloud of spores being ejected. Thank you so much for sharing that.

I don't watch your videos to see if a mushroom is edible. I have no intention of going out into the woods and chowing down on a potentially poisonous fungus, lol. I watch your videos, because I like to learn things, and you are always so super excited about the subject!!!! Sad, that so many forms of Life on Earth are on the brink of extinction, glad you got to document the Not Chicken of the Woods mushroom.

Damn, thought I had chicken of the woods, but it's hapalopilus croceus.. let the foraging continue!

Call it anything thing you want,...’Fred’?

I thought you were going to tell us that it's a Beefsteak....how interesting....have never heard or seen this mushroom.

Always a wealth of information, Adam. Thanks again. 👍

I found some big fungus growing like this here in Northwest Georgia. They are growing out from the bottom of some massive old growth oaks. Inside of them looks like stranded cork. Very dark color. But outside is basically white. Very hard fungus. Brought a small piece home and left it laying on the counter. Kept noticing dust around it each day. There was two worm like woodcutters that came out of it. Would really like to send you a chunk of it Adam.

So the big question - is this a pure saprotrophic (wood decomposer) ... or would it be positive to have this in a chestnut orchard and/or old oak forest as a beneficial live saprophytic shroom on display ... ???

Just found, foraged, and cooked chicken of the woods twice this past week, for the first time, then I watched this video! Cool heads up, on the rare chance I find this. I'm heading to a cabin about an hour north of williamsport pa for a few days and definitely going to poke around the forest as we will be surrounded :) thanks for your videos Adam, great stuff!

I actually just found one of these in Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve in Pittsburgh! You should go check it out it was giant! I also got to observe the spore "smoke" as you were describing as well. I was very excited to find it given how cool it looked, and was even cooler now seeing this video after the fact and finding out how rare an experience that was!

Very good in depth analysis, thank you for putting spellings on screen, and reviewing from multiple 'angles'

My Mushroom journal shows I started finding chicken of the woods last year sept.1st..here in Missouri

If it has no common name, you should create one, you seem eminently qualified. Maybe a variation on the theme, Chicken's Yoke...

Thank you do much for sharing your knowledge with us! I, for one, love what you do.

In sweden its called Saffransticka, where saffran means saffron and ticka means polypore :) Id assume because of its color

I work with reclaimed barn wood and get American Chestnut, can you use it or the saw dust to grow and study this particular mushroom?

Hi Adam, Thank you so much for taking the time to produce these wonderfully informative videos. Would you consider tackling the thorny subject of rusula identification in the future please.

Very informative Adam, as usual. Makes me want to head out into the woods mushroom hunting. Kind of reminds me of an overgrown Oyster mushroom, except for the color & thickness. I was once told by a Mycologist friend of mine "Don't eat any mushroom that you don't recognize, unless of course you have eaten one before & lived to tell about it"!

My son an I found are 1st chicken this past Saturday in Maine

How do you remember all these names! lol

i found this mushroom at the beginning of the month (as far as i know) and i am pretty sure i know exactly where you are ;)

I feel like I see them half the time and chicken half the time. But never that large though.

Truthfully if you mistake this mushroom from chicken mushroom you dont need to forge for them

We had a HUGE bloom of those this year on a log I removed.. I had to take a closer look before I realized they weren't... I was lamenting what 50 lbs of Chicken of The Woods would have sold for! lol Interesting that it's considered rare.. I will say I have NEVER seen it before. These were on an OLD big Elm.. which was near oaks and old chestnut stumps. I wish I had take a picture.. there were some HUGE ones and it was a massive cluster of them. VERY interesting distinction between white rot and brown rot fungus! Do you happen to know which type produces DMSO as a bi-product? So EASY to "sit through all the details".. I am eating it up! (Just the info) I love all the excellent and detailed info you provide! Thnak you!

I'm going to call it the hopalong b/c you should hopalong and not harvest/eat it.

Adam, I just put a one minute Video up of some kind of black Stick Fungus I found on a dead mossy log. Your knowledge is needed .

I'm pretty sure I have seen this one quite often in eastern KS. Orange shelf mushroom seems like the perfect common name to me. P.S. great camera work on capturing the pores!

Thanks for making a video on wild foraging books. I got Samuel thayers Natures Garden. It has taught me very great keys on the identification of plants. I have found a few local species of plants, such as beeked hazle nuts, wild blueberries, and Autumberry. It is weird walking in the woods knowing I have food. most recent video so I wanted to say thanks.

Great video!! It helped me a lot with my mushroom hunt. A few days ago, I saw this mushroom (from a dead bamboo root) and I thought it was chicken of the woods. Luckily it was in an old stage and I didn't take it. Im from Texas!

dude your knowledge is mind blowing , thank you

Is there any mushroom ID book that discusses KOH testing on mushrooms, and the entire inventory and how they color-respond to the chemical ?

Of course I sat through it all. I just found a bunch of chicken of the woods this year! Want to make sure! I done a video on mine so I need to double check and take down my video if it’s not Chicken of the woods! I really thought I was sure but you made me question myself. Thanks for what you do!!!

All this talk of chicken is making me HONGRY!!

Yay! I got the Hapalopilus part, at least. It's so distinctly fuzzy and colorful, but the wrong color for H. nidulans. I've never seen the H. crocea in France, though it is here and considered rare, as in the US. Thanks to you and your friends for this closeup look.

Only Adam would humor his audience by using the old, outdated Latin name for a fungi. 😂

I wish we had more people like this amazing teacher! Much love brother. Keep lighting the path for all to see🙏

Good to name it after something inedible. For example, "Catcher's Mit." Did you wash your hands immediately after shooting the video?

How did you learn so much? You are so smart!!

Awesome as usual Adam. I've found the other 2 you mentioned. And maybe someday I'll find this one. You are my 1st and foremost go too. Thank you for you're vast knowledge.

I would have to call it the Hopalong Cassidy. That I could remember.

As always thank you for being such a great teacher!

Cool ! , I love the amount of interest in mushrooms here ! 🧐🇬🇧👍🏻🤔🧐❤️ , there’s fun-gi’s everywhere on the internet ! 😂😂😂

pancake of the woods was exactly what i was thinking haha

Thanks Adam! I think that we'll definitely recognize that one now if we ever come across it.

Well presented, timely, relevant, important, informative. Thank You.

You are one of the most informative mushroom people I ever knew. Thanks for taking time to do this video for us. 1700’s Chaga mushroom? Well cool. This is a very cool mushroom. I’d call it a Mutt mushroom because it’s such a diverse one👍

TIL: Adam with a new, rare fungus is like a dog with a stick. ~excitement intensifies~ :-D

Great vids thanks for the info

Thank you again for another great video.

i guessed that it was hapalopilus 🙏🏽 thanks for making this video! i love hearing about more rare fungi because hearing about the same edible species can get very repetitive.

Good day for Shroom hunting..hen of the woods..and chanterrells every where..extremely wet in Missouri..unusual for this time of the year

I thought it was a polypouros squamous. Don't remember how to spell it.

Thanks from Washington state

More please!! Would love a video on lions mane!

What a very interesting find. Great job Adam.

Hope you make a new video about the piptoporellus species that’s been popping up everywhere ! They’re flushing right now in SE Texas 👍🏻

thank you so much for all the great info! You have helped me in my mushroom hunting so much!!

What do you do for mosquitoes Adam? You're always wearing a short sleeve shirt

Hi Adam, I enjoyed your snark about " can ya eat it..." so many times friends want to jump to the can ya eat it part of my limited explanation of a mushroom we encounter. A lady on the west coast, " Yellow Elinor" who is a RU-vidr that shares similar videos as yours, snarks on folks just wanting to know, " can ya eat it" You are fun that way. I recently referred Peggy Schirmer to your channel. She has " gut feelings" a great youtube channel too. I think you and she will enjoy a similar zest for healthy living and vital diet. I look forward to each video you share. Smiling, George.

Thank you so much for sharing im a mushroom hunter in Missouri I havent seen this one but alot of chickens & hens around here🍄🍄🍄

Wow! I really learn so much from you. Easily!

Great video as always Adam. Always nice to see a Hapalopilus in the field!

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Another awesome video.

Thank you for this wonderful video! Well done. 😊

Looks like a giant Pycnoporus cinnabarinus

Damn dude you know your stuff big fan

It must be a year for bloom because i just found this mushroom this month for the first time ever and didnt know what it was. Thanks for the info!

Absolutely love the channel, thanks for sharing your knowledge...Would you consider doing a video on Laccaria ochropurpurea - If so, I would be more than excited. Blessings from Maine!

Very nice with a video on rare mushrooms :-) Its also extremely rare in Denmark

Love your videos! Thank you.