As a third year mycophile I’m really enjoying your channel and learning a lot. You definitely are a natural speaker. I love how you slowly show the mushroom species without making sudden moves that can make viewers motion sickness. I would love to hear the scientific names more than once as they’re so hard to read and pronounce. Much appreciated ❤🍄
Awesome - thanks so much! That's great feedback - and I agree about those scientific names. I'll definitely aim to work those in more and more. You're totally right that repetition is key. Thanks for tuning in!
I love nature and admire you appreciating all that it offers. This is a fabulous channel and it won't take long before you're packed with followers. I suffer from occasional anxiety and this channel is exactly what I need at the end of a difficult day. I am as well in the PNW and I love it here. Now after watching countless videos on this channel, I'm curious to get out on the hiking trails and also forage for some interesting species of mushrooms. Again, thank you for your time and energy you've put into the channel and the videos and the editing. I know it's time consuming but, you're a natural with the narration. Keep it up, friend. We'll be waiting for every video you're post.
Thank you so much for the kind words and encouragement! So greatly appreciated - and I feel super honored to be a part of that calm at the end of a difficult day. Nature has so much to offer all of us! Can't wait to get the next video out your way! Happy Trails!
The rough warty exterior, thick skin, the powdery dark interior with the white cottony bits separating it, and the association with hemlock makes me think this is a fairly old member of the Elaphomyces granulata group! Melanogaster tuberiformis has smoother skin and the interior looks more marbled and is gelatinous to some extent and doesn't get the powdery bits or the cottony fluff like you have there.
Awesome! Thanks so much - I was hoping to hear from you on this. This is, once again, fantastic information ... and greatly appreciated! So cool to be going down the truffle rabbit hole. I have so much to learn in this arena. I think I was thrown off by the dark interior, but I'm just now looking back into "Mushrooms of the Redwood Coast" and seeing some very important notes/features that I initially missed. Can't thank you enough ... and I also can't wait to spot my first Tolypocladium - definitely keeping my eyes peeled!
fun adventure - as another PNW mushroom picker it is wonderful to see; seems like the mushrooms are pointing at early spring - also like the music accompanying.
Thanks! And I totally agree -- seems to be that things are definitely pointing to an early Spring this year! I keep thinking about Morels and Spring Kings... may come sooner than usual -- we'll have to see! Thanks for tuning in and Happy Trails!
I have also been seeing those types of cup mushrooms. I’ve just been calling them ebony caps because I’ve had such a tough time finding them in my guides ( I’m a beginner and only own two small books). I look forward to hearing more about them if you find out more!
Such a cool one to see! My research keeps pointing to the need to pull out a microscope to really positively ID these (and even then, I also see lots of evidence of new species or subspecies being sequenced here in the PNW too). So one of the key determining factors with these is that Plectania milleri will have long elliptical spores, whereas Pseudoplectania nigrella (often referred to as the "Ebony Cup") will have round spores. It keeps dawning on me that it is very possible that I'm encountering more than one species out there on my recent hikes. So fun to continue to learn out there!
That is an excellent question! And I agree that Earthballs are best avoided😆 The truffles and "false truffles" (which I believe this is) are hypogeous, meaning the fruit bodies are formed below ground, which you can see was the case with the one depicted in the video. I got really good info in the comments from masamunesword and, after conducting more research, I believe that he is likely correct that this is a member of the Elaphomyces granulata group. Unfortunately, the Elaphomyces, commonly referred to as "deer truffles," aren't edible... at least not for humans - the squirrels and forest creatures love them! Also, I suppose it's worth noting that I never consume anything without a very certain and positive ID... and that goes for all the fungi I encounter. Thanks for tuning in - and Happy Trails!
