Good to see those mini early summer chanterelles turning into larger mid-summer chanterelles! Love the breakdown of the blackberry species too, I had no idea...
I agree! If those chanterelles can hang in there and patiently await the rains, should be a good fall chanterelle season - we'll see how it shakes out! 🤞
Hey there MT , as always another great video. I always enjoy watching them when I'm not out there foraging as it does remind me of all the amazing things that I see when I do go to the forests. Your a lot more well versed in the plant world than I am, but I do remember and always make note of where I find the edible and medicinal plants that peak my interests. Always great to know whats available for one to use if the need arises. Thanks again for sharing. As an experienced forager and mushroom person, I very much enjoy your adventures. Grateful knowing you Brother, talk soon 👊🍄💚
Man, what great video! Love the variety of information. I just got back from a camping trip in Gifford, I spent most of my free time picking huckleberries, but ended up with a pretty good haul of chanterelles too, had a nice ribeye and mushroom dinner on the last night. Was bone dry out there but looks like we have some rain in the forecast 🤞 Keep up the great work!
Thanks! That sounds like a fantastic trip out to Gifford! It is really amazing how those Chanterelles manage to make things work in spite of the lack of precipitation ... gotta say, this evening's forecast of rain is getting me excited! 🤞
This was fun. Thank you! I’ve found trailing blackberry this year, wild Cascade Mountain blueberries and red huckleberries. Made mixed berry scones and had tea. So yummy! I think our native blackberries have almost an effervescent fizz taste to them. Could be my imagination though. 😁But they are tasty little bites!
@@MushroomTrail Yes, they are! I feel blessed any time I can collect even 1 cup so I can make scones. The red huckleberries were HUGE this year! They were growing right at the water’s edge on a creek we like to visit because of a waterfall.
Nice! That sounds like a fantastic huckleberry spot - I always feel like the simple fact that you can picture the incredible wild places you forage things from (be it mountain blueberries from a high cascade slope, or red huckleberries from the water's edge) makes them taste that much better!
@@MushroomTrail Totally agree. A cup of wild berries from a favorite spot can’t be duplicated from a store. Can’t wait to find my first wild mushrooms! Maybe this fall.
I forage for beaked hazelnuts on occasion! Nice little treat when you can find them but my experience is you need a very large hedge of them to even have a chance against the squirrels. Squirrels can also smell which nuts developed and which haven't, so odds are if you do find them laying on the ground, most of them are hollow.
Nice! And I agree that it can be a real challenge to beat those squirrels to the punch because they seem to LOVE those hazelnuts! Super interesting note on the squirrels sniffing out which ones are developed. Often foragers will place the hazelnuts that they harvest in water so that they can easily determine which are developed and which are hollow -- the floaters get tossed! Curious to know when you typically seek these out in our area - what do you find to be the sweet spot when you can beat the squirrels/birds but still be sourcing mature hazelnuts?
@@MushroomTrail I find that late August/Early September is the best time to harvest them. You want to harvest them while the involucres (the prickly wrapper around the nut) is still green but the shell of the nut inside is brown. If you wait for the involucres to turn brown, you probably won't beat the other wild life to them.
Very cool! I've only ever really harvested the odd handful here or there... that sounds like it could be a really fun foraging opportunity though. I'll have to keep an eye out and add that to the "to-do" list!
Dude the cutleaf blackberry are soooooooo much better than the Himalayan blackberries They are almost never sour, even when red. Ive never found a good enough patch of trailing blackberries to really harvest only a few here or there but I agree they are the best and sweetest.
I thought that Velvet-Footed Tap reminded me of a Brown Roll-rim over here! Paxillus involutus. Another case of aesthetic convergent evolution? You wouldn't want to eat the Brown Roll-rim though... a certain German Mycologist found that out the unfortunate way didn't he!!
Wow! Had to read up on Julius Shaffer's unfortunate result from consuming Paxillus involutus ... that potential for autoimmune hemolysis is downright scary. Tapinella's likeness to Paxillus may be a good reason why we here in the west don't even consider bringing it home!
@@MushroomTrail it IS downright scary!! I must admit, I was confused when you spoke of some people eating that mushroom, it definitely didn't look like one I'd pick to eat!
Thanks! Very interesting - I love to get regional updates. And to be totally honest, I'm kind of surprised that they're still coming up in some of my local Western WA spots ... worth noting, however, that some of my favorite patches are still devoid and bone dry ... so a little rain would probably go a long way towards getting us into full swing!
Nice! Such a great tree to have around! I've seen plenty of places where they've been planted intentionally (for commercial and/or personal use) but because they're native, they often turn up here in the PNW on their own. Hope they produce well this year!
It definitely looked like it had a little spot of mold or growth on it ... but I believe that the lobster mushroom (Hypomyces lactifluorum) typically parasitizes Russula and Lactarius genus ... most often Russula brevipes in our area. But you never know - that would be pretty cool!
U tubers could learn from you that one can talk and show the subject rather than so many that insist that they are the star and show their mugs more than mushrooms.
