I love you Yellow Elanor! I live in Alabama but have been learning so much over the last year (from your videos and many other sources). I even joined the local (new, as of 2022) Alabama Mycological Association because of you. Thanks for spreading mushroom love to the world!
Thanks for the video. Still haven't found Candy Caps in the Gorge but found a bunch at the coast recently. I think maybe Colin meant to say that they feel like newts not salamanders (salamanders are smooth unlike the Rough Skinned Newt). Cheers, thanks again!
Another great and very helpful video. Your videos help us to learn not only the common edibles, but some of the lesser known edibles in our region. Last season I learned the "Blue Knight" from one of your videos I watched after I found them on Mt. Hood and didn't know what they were, now this. And all your videos are very well done. Please keep up the production!!!
Loved this video! I stumbled upon candy caps for the first time last autumn (L. camphoratus) but wasn't confident in the ID so I haven't tried them yet. I went back for more but it was too late. Hoping to find more in the same spot this year!
I love this!! Candy caps have been on my most-desired list for awhile now (I've yet to find them) but this video gives me hope. Thanks for all the great tips 💙 also, I love blue bus!
I have never found candy caps before and I have looked for them. I think that if they grow in Georgia, they will be out in a time of year when the cold weather will keep the bugs off of them.
🙂Your excitement is contagious! Colin’s (sp?) recipe ideas, especially with the description of the mushroom, sounds delicious. That balsamic dressing idea. And the pumpkin, candy cap and persimmon pie!
These are so good. Most of my foraging experience has been informed by Adam Haritan's videos from Pennsylvania. Just like his, these are so well made and informative. Love the filmmaking as well. I look forward to searching for these in the Northwest. Super cool all around, thank you!
I have been getting fooled by these look alikes all season up here also in the PNW. They are slightly more bright orange, thick white milk, fatter stipe, and maybe a slightly more slick texture on the cap. White spore print. No smell when dry. They are absolutely everywhere right now early December. Must be a related species. Good video.
This is my fav video I love candy caps they are my most favorite mushroom they also said that they don’t grow in my area of southern Cali but I found a couple spots
I just grabbed and ID some of these after watching some of your mushroom identification videos! I picked the whole mushroom out, I’ve been smelling them, breaking them, and having lots of fun! Thanks for the knowledge. I probably won’t try and eat these. But I’ll dry them for the smell!
Awesome detail! super helpful, I wish I could have a video this detailed on every mushroom I am curious about. Keep up the good work! I found my first candy cap mushroom a few days ago and also a look alike. I only picked a few to bring home to exam 🥲 but now I know where they live!😁 thanks for the guidance!
Awesome vid! I love how you both describe different features of the mushrooms you hunt for. I don't think they grow in my area (Central Ontario) but after seeing this vid, perhaps some day I will find some. Wishing you much mushroom success. :)
I've been following you for quite some time. you have such an amazing attitude and knowledge of the myco world. I would love to get you out to the Canadian Maritimes and show myself and a few others what to look for other than Amanita Muscaria var guessowii and cantharallus.
Hello from Europe :) nice videos.. Keep em coming! The first Russula you found is so similar to Eu species Russula chloroides which has a bluish hue on lamelae.
Just picked candy caps for the first time. They are drying on my desktop. I'm drinking a glass of water and the water tastes maple-y. That's how strong the aroma is.
nice.. i found a mushroom clump and was almost positive they were candy caps.. however, when I tasted them , the taste at the end of my tongue was disgusting and I had to spit it out ( which I normally do when testing mushrooms ) I was fairly disappointed.. however, thank-you for the tips on identifying.. now I will look for that orange peel like texture and the skim milk like excretion... thanks again!
After watching this video, I went in search of candy caps up in Pierce County Washington. I found my first one and when it dried the smell was amazing! Thanks for the video! P.S. I was down in white salmon area a couple of weeks ago and saw Collin bringing in some of his product to a restaurant. I was too embarrassed to say hi, so I awkwardly smiled at him...
Heh, pretty sure 23 minutes of that was just her strolling about going OMG MUSHROOMS LOOK MORE MUSHROOMS I LOVE MUSHROOMS WOW LOOK AT THE MUSHROOMS. Yet still I watched the whole thing so I'm not complaining.
Haha, hey now some of that is Colin too! Not just me! But yes, truth...and also why my brother titled it the way he did. Can't help the squeals sometimes :)
You lucky Dawgs!! So if candy caps can be found 'all over' does that mean I have a chance of finding them in the mid-west prairies? in appropriately soggy moss? Your collaboration with Colin is excellent and I hope there's more to come. Very conversational and educational. Learned lots so thank you! 🍄
Hey David, their caps are often smaller than the diameter of my pinky but I have also found them as large as 3 inches across. It takes a long time to fill a basket but they are very beautiful and quite tasty.
I would make one correction/note to this video, re: no deadly Russulas: There IS at least one fatally toxic Russula, Russula subnigricans, that kills via muscle tissue death and rhabdomyolysis: mushroomworld.com.sg/a-deadly-russula/ So make sure you know what this one looks like. Luckily, it's one of the blushing Russulas, meaning it stains red when broken, albeit sometimes quite slowly, and I don't think it grows in the PNW. But it has been found where I'm at (in the Southeast US). So it's worth noting and learning to identify when picking Russulas.
Thanks for this great video! I've had mixed results drying mushrooms that I've been assured are candy caps. I don't seem to get reliable or strong scent from them. When you say to dry "gently", what do you mean? Is that in terms of air flow, heat, or both. I have an excalibur dehydrator that can run with no heat, but the fan has only one setting so they still dry overnight and maybe faster. I don't have a simple fan I can set to blow over them for extremely gentle drying. Is the dehydrator with no heat still too aggressive to get the best results? It's nearing the end of the season. I've been finding them by the pound but I don't want to waste them if I can't dry them right. Thank you!
I mushroom hunt on the east coast and in the midwest, but I want to do some west coast mushroom hunting as part of a vacation. I've found and enjoyed east coast candy caps (found in late summer, not winter), but I really want to hunt for the west coast varieties. What's the best region to find them in? What time of year?
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i have a question~ I have mushrooms that grow underneath my hemlock tree (the non poisonous hemlock i forget it's scientific name) but they look like boletes of some kind but they exude a liquid.... it's a milky yellow. the mushroom themselves almost look like that first one you shared the "zellers"? bolete. are there any Lactarius mushrooms with porous gills rather than the stereotypical gills?
Either way is a sustainable way to harvest. There certainly could be some mushrooms where one method may be better than another, however I haven’t seen data for individual species like that (aside from Chanterelles and the study ended up saying either way is sustainable). The Chantharellus Project and the Swiss Study are two studies done to evaluate cutting vs plucking, there are some articles about the projects you could look up for further reading, it’s definitely a fun and well debated topic.
