Meet The Medicinal Yellow Reishi Mushroom
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Here's a beautiful Reishi mushroom I don't see too often - Ganoderma curtisii. Learn all about it in this video!
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dude, the fact that you named the exact terpenoids that affect the inflammation response is genius. you often hit next level moments on this channel where other mushroom youtubers do not! i just stumbled upon some of these babies in new york. glad to depart from tsugae for a while. i'm looking to see if your channel has home dual extract info vids rn.
I appreciate you work my brother. Your the best.
I love that you use latin names and that you pack so much information into these videos!!
I'm here because I just found a bunch of them in coastal NC.
Surprisingly fresh and growing beautifully in a hardwood mulch.
Also a big clump of turkey tail right in the middle of them.
Lucky me 😊
Adam, I am always impressed by your familiarity with the scientific literature and your ability to refer to studies and papers from memory. Your grasp of the biology and pharmacology is admirable. Are you a medical student? You certainly have the mind for one.
Hello Adam, as always a great and informative video ! It would be great if you could show your extract process in regards to your Reishi mushroom finds !!! Please keep up your great videos !!
Hey Peter, thanks for watching and commenting! I'll try to get a medicine-making video out sometime soon.
I enjoyed this video! Did I notice a long stem? Also, it seems that the cap of the mushroom is only growing to one side of the stem? Am I right? Thanks,
This medicinal mushroom is amazing!!!!!
I think I have this growing on a stump right next to my house in northern NJ. I’m so excited to watch it grow and harvest! What a blessing
Although it’s just forming so I can’t be certain which ganoderma it is. And I have no clue what species the tree stump is as it’s very old and flush with the ground (can’t see bark, only the rings)
Another NJ person with ganoderma growing in their yard. I had probably 2 pounds of them growing in my yard but I couldn't identify them so I left some and chopped up a few and threw them around the yard. I have at least 20 species of mushrooms growing around the yard but I don't know enough about any of them to eat except the black trumpets. Now that I know about the reishi mushrooms I'll make sure to collect them for an extraction next time they flush
Adam, I love your philosophy about and approach towards nature, as well as utilizing the fruits of nature and incorporating them in your diet. I'm obsessed with mycology so this vid stuck out. Your stinging nettle vid brought me here.
Thanks for all of your info and for referencing those studies. I'd be honored to meet you and discuss the wealth of knowledge you've obtained!
James, thank you! Glad you're enjoying these videos, and perhaps one day our paths will cross!
You are a genius, found some of this in my lawn, so excited.
Thanks for watching!
amazing the power of mushrooms. just amazing.
Agreed!
So pretty! I’ll have to take a look for some of those around the forest surrounding my property.
Just ran into a bunch of these here in Atlanta. On a dead tree stump. I didn't know what they were being so different from red reishi. Then I found your vid. I'm really excited to learn to do a double extraction with them. Thank you!
Awesome video! So much information, THANK YOU!!
Thank you for this informative video!! My family has a long history of eating morel mushroom but just in the last couple of years thanks to the sharing of knowledge by people such as yourself I have incorporated a few more into my diet. Thank you and keep up the good work!
Adam is why we'll live through anything!
Oh my I’m in blk mtn nc hiked today by curtis creek found about 6 of these for the first time!!! I’m so excited
Adam, I really love your videos. It really inspires people to learn and enjoy nature, especially the fungi species. It was so interesting I just found "Chicken of the Woods" mushrooms in the front of my house in Front Royal, Virginia. It was under the Oak trees, and I saw a space between the tree to that mushrooms. After searching, and watching your videos, I think I got Laetiporus Cincinnatus. They have very bright orange color on the top, and the margins are very slight yellow, and the other side has whitish color, and no gills at all. So happy to find them, and I cooked awesome dinner with those "Chicken of the Woods". I really hope it will grow again soon. I really enjoyed to harvest them and even made my own video to talk a little bit about this mushroom after searching and watching many videos, and reading the books. Wow! I really love the bright color of this mushrooms. After harvesting this mushrooms, cooking and having awesome dinner, I am totally in love with wild mushrooms hunting now. Thanks so much for all your very informative videos:).
I know this is an old video but thank you for making videos you've helped me learn so much
I’m currently fermenting five jars of reishi in Goldschlager right now. Can’t wait to begin a regimen
Hi Adam, you are the man, just got back from a walk in the woods hunting mushrooms, found some that looked similar to Reishi (sp) but it was growing on a dead red oak. I knew from one of your other videos that they normally grow on hemlock but thought to myself I am going to take one with me and look through your uploads again. Sure enough, here it is, uploaded just two weeks ago, thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Wow, that's great!
Yes, it certainly is! I have found 11 or 12 of them at this point and have been "seeding" every dead oak (all have been on reds at this point) so hopefully in years to come I find them to be more abundant. I spent 2 full days "seeding" dead hemlock as well, it will be interesting to see if that pays dividends as well. If I recall you mentioned one time you never found it to be very successful.
Thank you so much for this informative video! Seen this mushroom a lot, never totally sure what variety of Ganoderma it was. No doubt now! Keep up the great videos.
Loved the info about Curtis and thanks for the information on a locally abundant to me species!
You're welcome, John!
Maybe my new favorite channel. Even after the brief disappointment, when I realized you were NOT Michael Cera. :)
Found some! Thanks for helping me identify them!
I found a few on a big stump a month ago south of Algonquin park in Ontario. I just found a few more today again a stump. Don't know if it was hemlock but it might have been. Going to make a tea tommorow!
Wow! Thanks for posting this. I found one of these the other day. I wondered about this one because of the yellow color near the border of the cap! I live in Alabama so when I found this one I was over joyed but a little caught off guard by the yellow color on the border. There is a wooded area behind my house that hardly anyone venture into because of the over growth of trees and everything else. I found it on an oak tree. Again, thanks so much for informing us of this one!
Very informative video. Thanks for sharing.
Hope you do a video showing how you process this mushroom. Thanks for the videos.
Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video--I get them regularly on my dying and dead red maple, laural oak and once on a dying tupelo (SE North Carolina).
Once again Adam great specimen! I have seen these I think but found them on a pine and was not sure. Was in Sherman New York over the weekend had a great hike in the woods.
I believe I have found a flush of ganoderma curtisii today in western NC on a dead oak that fell about 2-3 years ago!! Along with some oysters on a dead tulip popular and 3 bunches of fresh chicken of the wood along the roots of a live oak!
Great video Adam. Thanks. I just got a package of Reishi spores from Four Sigmatic and am happy to be able to incorporate them into my diabetes/marathon training diet. Keep up the good work brother. Peace in your heart. Namaste
Cool, a kindred spirit. Nice to meet you.
great info Adam .thanks for sharing
I am just starting to learn about foraging and loving your videos. I found my first chanterelles the other day and now I'm looking in earnest for different mushrooms. I believe I have located a reishi at the base of a water oak which is very prevalent where I live in Coastal South Carolina. I have some pictures and was hoping you might confirm if it is in fact a reishi. Unfortunately I don't know where to post them. Keep those videos coming. Your easy going nature and your vast knowledge is making something that I thought was going to be difficult into something that seems quite attainable. Thanks!
Hi Lorraine, looks as if Adam may have missed your comment, try sending them to adam@learnyourland.com if that doesn't work feel free to send me a picture at jerrybruckhart1ATgmail.com and I will gladly take a look.
Jerry Bruckhart it was very kind of you to reply to my post. I went back to the tree, cut one off and brought it home. Based on the bottom of the mushroom and other identifying features I am confident it is a reishi. I believe it is an old one though. Very dry, hard and rather faded looking. I'm keeping an eye on the tree and hoping for something new. Thanks so much for the offer to ID the mushroom for me. Happy Hunting 🍄
Love your stuff kick on love it
I know this video is a few year old, but I just found it. A month or so ago, I found this bizarre mushroom growing from a tree stump behind my house. I’m pretty sure it’s a reishi. It’s form and color is very much like the ones you showed in the video. Good to know it has medicinal properties too! I would love to see some videos that show how to use that way, but I understand that they are not “eatable” in the traditional manor of “fry it up and eat it”? It would be nice to have some directions on its use.
Thanks for the video. From the woods of SC.
I found some yesterday. A lot in District Heights, Maryland
Thanks for sharing! Will you do a video on how to do the double extraction?
curtisii looks indistinguishable to me from ganoderma tsugae i found. the ganoderma tsugae i found was at the base of a hemlock not a hard wood like you delineate in your video. I do plan on doing a double extraction with the reishi i found. It was like a 15 lbs haul i was so excited to find it.
Very interesting! I enjoy your videos.
Thank you 🙏
Thanks Adam. I'm always learning something new on your channel!!! Great video! I hope to find curtisii in the future.
You're welcome! I bet you will... keep looking at the bases of dead hardwood trees.
Great videos!!! Please, if possible, make a video for folks like me to send non-foragers or non-outdoorsy people in general that explains the benefits of keeping the wild close to ones own backdoor.
The reason I ask is that, being one of many my age with mobility disabilities, my days of deep forest foraging are becoming part of my past and since I live on the edge of a forest in a non-incorporated city, I only cut my non-wooded property once or twice a year.
Mobility issues aside, I have other reasons for doing this in that it lets me forage close to home of whatever the previous year has carried seed or spores onto my property (it is never the same, year to year) out of this I see what turns up, what is the most beneficial and I leave it to remain and produce seed for the following year so as to have a wild source close to home while only removing the lesser needed or poisonous look alikes.
Well, the adjoining property owners take offense and don't understand (or pretend not to understand) because they say my property is overgrown in weeds and lowers their property value or... they just take offense having to drive by and look, lol.
I have tried to explain that those "weeds" help keep my medical expenses down and Dr. visits far and few in between, that I'm not made of money but, yes I have enough of it to own a lawnmower... simply a choice not ask a younger person to use it for me to better facilitate my medicinal needs.
It would be nice to have a person with respected knowledge, such as you are, make a video explaining these things to non-foragers that people like me could refer them to. One person even offered to cut some of it for me but thinks I am just too prideful with my disability to accept their offer. Another even went as far as to call the police and report I was growing illegal drugs when they saw me collecting some Fern heads. This led to 6 State police cars and 12 State police officers trampling through my property and everything that grew on it just to not find any of whatever they thought they were looking for.
Lack of understanding, and at times downright malicious intent from adjoining property owners, is an additional pain for folks like me that maybe you could help with if you have the time. Great channel! Keep the videos coming.
Hello, Thanks for this. I believe I just found some of this on Cape Cod! Believe it or not, mid-February, after feet of snow, they were still rubbery, and not hardened. They're a much lighter and brighter shade of orange - red - (one was purple) than the Tsugae I've harvested. There are no outer white bands so they're fully mature, about 4-6 inches in width. I didn't take a photo of the stump they were growing on, so I don't know if it was a hardwood. It was pretty decomposed so I'm not sure I'd be able to tell the species anyway. They do not have white undersides, like the one in your video. The bottom is more a beige-brown. There are some melanoid bands, mentioned in other literature. Question for you Matt, is the tree it's growing on the only way to differentiate the species? Is the lighter, orangy color enough to say they're curtisii?
Adam, not Matt. :// Sorry about that.
I'm in mid GA and this grows in my backyard all the time on dead pine stumps. My husband wont let me harvest because he said it could be poisonous but I know it's not. We also have a wet wooded land behind our property. I'd love to go back there and look for mushrooms. Too bad there's lots of copperhead snakes. That's the only thing that holding me back.
Nice find, Adam:)
Thanks for the upload. Good stuff.
Superb find, Adam! I hope your dual extract turns out great! Do you use the pore surface of the mushroom as well in your extracts or only the white body and flesh? I recently found nearly 20lbs of ganoderma tsugae and am wondering if I should use the pores in my extracts. Thanks for the excellent videos!
Thanks! That's a great question, and yes... I do use the pore surface along with the rest of the fruiting body in my extracts.
I have a question ; Various different plants such as Star Anise and Pine Needles contain Shikamic acid which is the base that a popular influenza drug is made from . Shikamic acid is an antivitral , antibacterial and antifungal . If a person was taking a concoction of Reishi , TurkeyTail , Chaga and Birch Polypore to deal with the flue , would taking any Shikimic Acid be destroying the antiviral benefits of the mushrooms ?
On a side note . without knowing better , I had put down a layer of fresh pine needles on my blueberry beds and it darn nearly killed them . I put these down as a mulch to keeps the weeds out but unwittingly destroyed the entire beds bacteria and fungal system because of the Shikamic Acid in the Fresh pine needlles . Which led me to the question of whether it would be doing the same in a human body ?
Was hoping that this would be an explanation to a weird find I found in march. Guess not. Was dried out and dead from last year, but I noticed some larger reishi looking mushrooms attached to what I believe was an eastern white pine, but some smaller specimens of seemingly the same species were sprouting up from a fallen, rotting birch tree at the base of said pine. Makes for a hard identification lol. Perhaps feeding off the conifer, but grew into the birch due to lack of space?
I haven't searched your channel yet but have you done any vids on your extraction methods? Thanks!
Man, I live in upstate SC in the foothills of the Blue Ridge mountains and I'm just not having any luck finding reishis this season. I did stumble upon one that is dark brown and small. The smallest were only an inch across and fully mature, while the largest I've seen was about 4" across. Other people in my local mycology club have brought them in, too, but I haven't had a positive ID apart from that it is definitely some sort of reishi. It's not an artist's conk, it's too small. But it looks a lot like one. Any ideas, Adam? Found in dead trees only (I wasn't sure what type but it isn't birch). White underside, definite polypore, deep, rich brown tones on top. White ring at the edge like ganoderma tsugae which diminishes as the mushroom matures. Very woody. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get a spore print but I think it's brown, just based on the "dust" that was on them. I'd sure like to know what they are and if they are medicinal, especially since I know where they grow. They are literally the only reishi I've been able to find! :)
Hi Adam; I am a new Mycologist. (like 6 weeks - but all in). I have been watching several small Ganoderma curtisii; and harvested some small ones, and still have my best one yet to pluck; then, low and behold, a couple of new guys that I got interested (after seeing my pictures) sent me a pic of a REAL Beauty from Perry County, MS. I went and got it today. Its 5 1/2" across and 2-3 ounces of Reishi beauty!!! How has your experiment with a tincture extract from G-c worked for you? Any tips? Thanks!!! Rob O
First time I came across your video! Very informative. Do you have ones for up in Canada?
Thanks! I don't have any footage of Canadian species, though many of the mushrooms and plants that I feature can be found in Canada as well.
Thank you! This was in my forest last year, but I couldn't ID it, cause it wasn't dark like the other reishi.
Will you tell how much of this and turkey tail you use per cup? Also, do you decoct the shrooms separately, water/alc, then merge, or water first then alc vs versa?
Sonofabitch. I had these growing on a maple stump root system in my front yard and I didn't save them bc I couldn't identify them. Good thing I chopped them up and threw them around the yard, maybe I'll get more from the spores
Adam! You are awesome. Hey can you recommend a good book on natural medicine? I already have a few on medicinal mushrooms, but I'd like to learn more about plants and such.
Hey Amy, I'd look into Stephen Harrod Buhner's books. He has written dozens of books, and I'll bet you'd find some of them interesting.
Amy, as well as Adam's excellent suggestion of Stephen Harrod Buhner, you could also look into Matthew Wood's books. He and Buhner have outlooks that dovetail nicely.
That oxidation from too much NO might possibly be useful from what I've read - regarding apoptosis of some types of cancer cells, though I'm certainly not recommending it as a treatment since I don't think there's anything approved for this. It was just some study - not even sure if humans.
Hi Adam! Love your channel! Question: Can reishi's grow on pine trees? We live in an area in Wyoming where there are only pine and birch trees and we see mushrooms that look similar to the reishi all over the place. No one in my area knows what they are. Could I send you some pictures so you can help me to identify them? Thanks a bunch!
BlackHills Herbals go to r/shroomID on Reddit, they will surely help
What is it used for and
How do you use it?
Thank you
Adam, I'm really hoping you come out to the West Coast sometime and study to mushrooms out here! Open invite!
Me too! Hopefully one of these days...
Hi Adam- are there any other reishi mushrooms that grow on deciduous trees? I find one almost exclusively on well rotted oak stumps. They have the red lacquered cap, a white or yellowish ring on the outside of the cap. a white pore surface underneath that bruises dark grey if touched and a red lacquered stem. But I've never seen the bluish tint. I assumed they were the "standard" ganoderma although I live in an area that is exclusively deciduous hardwoods.
Is there any way to positively identify this and differentiate it from Hemlock varnish self?
Your video's are great.
Thanks, I appreciate it!
Hey Adam, I keep finding a mushroom just like this in North Carolina but it is all white and dull not shiny on dead hardwood do you know what it might be? All 4 findings have been in the last 2 weeks.
I think i have these on two red bud trees in my yard. The bugs like them. I will look this year if they grow. Right now they are brown powder. I let the bugs eat them then knock them away from the trees-oops. The same tree has reddish jelly fungus also. On red bud tree logs in my woodpile i think i might have turkey tails. I might like my dying trees after all.
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Do you have a recipe for making the extract?
Hey how exactly do you dual extract this? I understand the alcohol but do you just boil this down in distilled water?
Just found some entoloma abortivum a couple days ago. Didn't expect this video to help me identify it.
Have you learned anything new on this strain? I think there may be many more medicinal properties associated
Ganoderma curtisii is not Reishi, though it's in the same genus.
Can edible mushrooms still be dangerous? I'm worried about bacteria and parasites.
Ganoderma varieties are not usually classified under "edible" But are most certainly "consumable" The way to consume is either through boiling it in water for 20+ minutes or soaking in 80+ proof alcohol for weeks / months. So in either of those methods bacteria will not be a concern. But all "edible" mushrooms should be cooked! No wild foraged, or store bought mushroom should be consumed without proper cooking.
Do I hear crows in the background
Tree name please ❤
I need to get in contact with you.
"Laccate" = lacquered.