As a small child, I watched a movie called "Attack of The Mushroom People", about people whose bodies were taken over by mushrooms. I had nightmares for weeks and was terrified of mushrooms. Mom said it was just a movie and that it couldn't happen for real. I'll never trust her again.
I make a delicious "Pulled Pork" out of these mushrooms, by slow roasting them with onions, dried peppers, and tomatoes for a couple hours, then adding BBQ sauce for another half-hour or so. (In the winter, I like pairing them with Floccularia albolanaripes that tastes like sweet corn. So I can have a "summertime" dinner in the winter - from mushrooms.) I like that Split Gills are easy to identify and are worth harvesting even when they have dried out, but they take a little more effort to remove the woody part where they attach to the log or bark. They are one of the first fungus to show up on newly dead wood that still has bark, and there can be a lot of them. And I have found them even in dry areas of Kansas, Texas, and Arizona, so their spores have got to be so common that most of us have breathed them in over many years.
I just read about this poor guy who injected himself with shroom tea and they were “growing inside him”. I feel bad for him but it’s also pretty amazing that the spores survived boiling and being inside of him.
@@aimee-lynndonovan6077 yeah... actually nuts, though. He read shrooms were being used to treat depression was trying to self medicate his own chronic manic-depressive episodes. He's definitely misguided but overall just a sad story.
This is a real concern for people with cystic fibrosis and one of the things that really limits life expectancy in CF patients is opportunistic infection with fungal spores which can germinate in their lung tissue and lead to a horrendous inflammatory immune response which causes real damage
There was a man here in Britain a few years ago who had an operation to remove a tumour from his lung and when they operated they found it was a pea shoot growing inside him.
@@baldy22 Because he is probably immune to it just like the rest of us who come in contact with all kinds of spores, bacteria, viruses etc. I started visiting forests when i was 6 years old, im 33 now and dont even remember the last time i got sick. I eat everything the forests gives me, from fruits to nuts to herbs to mushrooms, i get trace elements, vitamins, antioxidants, oxalic acids, inulin, and other things these Supermarket veggies fruits and herbs dont have, they are almost all grown in greenhouses in netherlands or spain, in hydroponics, with mineral or sometimes even chemical fertilizers, if those Supermarket fruits and veggies do something its the exact opposite, they make you sick, full of pesticides, fungicides and who knows what other DNA killing and cancerous disease causing shit is on there. People need to wake up, eat regional from your farmers market, eat from your forests etc.
Adam, I saw the movie "Matango" when I was a kid in the early 70's . It took me many years to be able to eat mushrooms again. Now you tell us about this! LOL! I became whole food plant based several years back. Mushrooms are an important part of my diet and nutrition. Good thing my fear of all of the other toxic things out weighs my fear of becoming a mushroom! Thanks for providing all of the great info.
sdafasdfasdfsda there are too many of them; Although there are exceptions (especially trump's cronies themselves) the majority of these people are honest-to-goodness brainwashed. It isn't right to condemn someone who honestly believes in their heart that they are doing the right thing, that is what the insanity clause is legally for in court. I am not condoning trumpists' behavior in any way, but I am saying that the correct way to deal with this massive problem is re-education programs. I know many countries have used "re-education programs" in order to brainwash and radicalize those enlisted, but in this case I am suggesting there is a legitimate and positive reason to implement these services immediately come 1/20. There are a LOT of people who drank the kool-aid and didn't know it (just like most cults) and have been asleep in a long crazy dream land ever since; The best thing for the country and the cultists themselves is to just bring them to their senses. DJT has surely earned a Guinness world record for "Most people conned". We need to stop treating this like an actual political disagreement and start treating it like the psychological issue it really is.
Bill Astell Working in a place where you routinely kill hundreds of people at once is not the same as being tricked into believing the end of the world is coming if you don't do something about it. Again, not condoning their behavior at all - it was foul. I can't stand trump, never have. But these people are being convinced that they are victims and martyrs; That's different than believing that genocide is "the right thing to do".
I was walking in Point Defiance park, Tacoma WA. on a five mile loop when I spotted a dog turd covered with a bluish fungi or mold. Then I began to notice that the mold/fungi highlighted dog turds throughout the five mile loop. It then occurred to me that the mold/fungi had found every dog turd (of a certain age) on the trail or in the woods. I then realized that the mold/fungi spores were everywhere (in that woods). This led me to believe that I was inhaling mold spores constantly. I tried not inhaling but that only worked for about a minute. I decided to live in symbiosis with molds and fungi. That spread to living in symbiosis with all living things. I included rocks in this as I love rocks. The hardest thing has been living in symbiosis with humans who aren't living in symbiosis. Thanks for your attention, I have been wanting to tell this story.
And now I have read your story, Michael Walling. The wind blows across the continent from Tacoma to us in Niagara, where I am learning to breathe. (four months later)
excellent video again Adam! You forgot to mention a particularly nasty fungus that makes Candida look like a walk in the park, that would be Epidermophyton floccosum. I know, I was infected with it and it spread to my hands. I was being treated for Candida. The dressing on my feet looked just like the agar growth I found on the web. I contacted my doctor and he prescribed a different cream, within 5 hours my hands cleared up and my feet looked better. But wait! there's more! I got a secondary infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that has plagued me for the last 6 years, the only thing that will work is silvadine cream. To date, after 6 years, the infection on my left foot has healed, the right is almost there. Fungus is nothing to fung with. iggy
Thank you for this presentation. I see this mushroom all around. I had no idea it would or could use a living human for a substrate. Interesting to say the least. I'm glad you shared this information.
Iv heard that the spoors of every mushroom indigenous to your area are present in every room of every building you enter. People with healthy NATURAL immune systems have less to fear than those suffering from an over abundance of modernity such as sugar, alcohol, and chemicals jmho
This is a very informative video, and I like the way you keep emphasizing that your chances of contracting this fungus as a parasite in your body are extremely slim. Unfortunately, some people will use this as evidence to never walk in the woods. They don't understand the need to know everything about a fungus, not just the good things. Thanks, Dr. H.
Yey, this format is better! I'd also start with the last phrase, antithetical as it might sound: "so, don't fear fungi, but learn and appreciate all the ways you CAN and MUST coexist with them". This is truly the motto of this channel
Great video! To be clear this is not normal behavior and prob does not benefit from growing on humans, it's an anomaly that might happen only to sick people with specific conditions and even then you still have an astronomically higher chance to be struck by lightning than being infected with this fungus.
Thanks for the mycology! I’m close to the coastline so it’s a long drive to meet with the local mycological group for me. Very informative and entertaining! Nice work
I love your videos, and always learn from them. It never ceases to amaze me that so many people give them a thumbs down. I think that can only be credited to envy, especially since I've not seen anyone ever contradict any of your information.
Thanks for the video my man. I've found this mushroom on three separate occasions within the past few weeks over here in South Korea. I was confused to find that the mushroom is edible, has medicinal properties, but also causes serious health issues. Your video helped clear some of that up!
I am always very impressed with your informative videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!! Love your videos brother. No toxic thoughts, no toxic people, great advice.
Thank you very much for your videos! I just watch your video on Learn To Identify Wild Edible Enoki Mushrooms and it's absolutely top quality. Have a nice day and thanks from Sweden.
Thanks very much for the video and the good information.😊 I love to eat this mushroom and used to collect them with my grandaunt when she went to tap the rubber trees in the morning. Usually we collect this and fern shoots(yes,we eat ferns). It's called kulat sisir(literal translation:comb fungus) in Malaysian language. Such a great time,my grandaunt taught me where to look for this,usually they grow on the dead rubber tree branches. We usually cook them in masak lemak udang kering (a dish made from coconut milk,some dried shrimp and some turmeric powder) or stir fried with shallot and garlic. Usually they have small bugs or insect larvas in them,so we usually soak them,change the water and soak them again before cooking them.We'll remove the hard part where it attached itself to the branch. They tasted good-kind of earthy and smells like fungus even when cooked. Now living in the city,kinda hard to get them fresh and quite expensive even for the dried ones. In the past,those mushrooms are not just free but also fresh. Really miss that good old times. hahaha..but a bit scared to eat now that I know they could infect human.😅
Love that you shared this. Really interesting. From his video If I ever tried it, I know what to do with those unused covid masks...lol I wonder if the coconut and turmeric don't have properties that make them safer as well. Neat.
Very fascinating! Thank you for sharing, I love to learn about mushroos. I just found a mushroom, I took some pictures and I didn't know that it parasitizes truffles so I came back to the forest to check the truffle part 🤎🖤🍄 nature is amazing.
Totally agree with you, Cordyceps are definitely fascinating, I have found some but it was long ago and I hope to find more soon. The one I found 2 days ago was a Tolypocladium Longisegmentum that parasitizes Elaphomyces truffles in particular I read that often confused with Tolypocladium capitatum, the two species can be differentiated via spore size and cap glossiness. I have a short video on my channel 🤎🖤🍄
@@Arleth7 Cool little video, thanks! Whereabouts are you? We have the T. capitatum (formerly Elaphocordyceps capitata) here in central France. Yet another new name since I learned them, so many changes to remember. * sigh *
@@chezmoi42 I live in North Carolina, USA, and I love hiking. Definitely so many types of mushrooms to learn about 💚🍄. Thank you for watching my video 😊
I was surprised when you didn't talk about how they were prepared as a food. Who eats them, where, are they the same tiny ones you're holding or bigger ones, and how are they cooked?
He mentioned trying them and they were meh. There are "famine foods" people will eat when times are tough, and sometimes those become something that's eaten out of custom.
Idk about the intro music, but if you want to hear something Adam did play, look up "Manic Ritual" on UA-cam. He used to play drums in a metal band! Personally, as someone else who features in embarrassing videos from a teenage metalcore band, hidden somewhere in the dark corners of the internet, I find it SO amusing to watch the naturalist we've come to know and love banging out blast-beats with his hair in his eyes. 😂
Thank you Adam for that information and insight. I find these a lot and have taken some beautiful photos of some. I have wondered about spores in the air and if they could harm us, now I know! I guess it would be wise to take precaution when closely photographing them and other fungi!
There was a medical case this week where someone injected a magic mushroom tea into their blood and it started growing inside their body. Edit was for spelling mistake which I misspelled “mushroom” as “mistook”
I have read about the genetic similarities between fungi and Humans. That is why it is so difficult for medical treatments to kill fungal infections. If it kills a fungus, good chance it will kill the host.
@@shengsun5916 Are you saying global warming is real or fake? It's hard to tell what you're saying based on the way you put it. Not trying to be mean I'm just curious what you meant!
Actually the opposite thing happened to me since Fresh Cap Mushrooms released its video a few days after Adam posted this one. They were both fascinating in their own way. I’m glad they chose different studies to focus on, but you got to wonder if they were collaborating. I’m cool with that. :)
Rob Fanzega, yeah, some idiot made mushroom tea with psychedelic mushrooms, and instead of drinking it, he injected it. A few days later, he started developing multiple organ failure. His blood showed fungus growth and a much of other crap, so he was put on heavy doses of antibiotics and antifungals. Turns out injecting fungal spores and bacteria into your body is a bad idea.
Lovely. Pennsylvania quakers pioneered the southern Ontario farms around here. They may have brought mushrooms with them when they built the Sharon temple. We live inside of a mystery. We know the land holds the greatest secrets.
I just ate one of these a week or two back. I didn't know about their tendency to colonize humans, I was sniffing the cap and gills before proper id. Definitely keeping my nose away from these in the future. Pretty distinct as it is - they are tasty too.
@@andrasabin4828 I feel fine! No complaints. I think it may be an issue that arises when people's immune system is compromised. So I think that you should be fine
I had an infection of this fungus growing in my ear! So now I won't breathe when I am around it...LOL I know it doesn't matter, but I can't help it! ((For background I have psoriasis in my ears, so they think I may have itched with some spores on my nail introducing it to my ear canal- which is a perfect shroom incubator!- I was in school for ecological biology at the time doing mycoremediation research))
I just shared this with a family member who also has psoriasis in the ears. They said, thanks for sharing your story. As hard as it is, one more important reason not to stick your finger in your ear, no matter how itchy it is!
I wonder if I have something similar. I've had very scaly, itchy ears for about 5 years. NOTHING makes it go away! I've asked 3 doctors about it. They just said that some people have rashes, and didn't give me anything for it. ???
@@karentinkum365 Wow, that's harsh. I know from this person in my family that it is worse in the winter. UV actually improves it. Keeping a low sugar diet really seems to help a lot, to the point where it is almost gone most of the time. It can get really badly cracked and oozing sometimes, can cause ear infections, gets flaky and itchy. There are some great creams out there. I think you need to see a psoriasis specialist to rule it out. I do hope you get help with it. Good luck!
Well, that's carrying research a little far, I'd say! I hope you've remained mushroom-free since then. Interestingly, a woman who does cat rescue recently took in a cat with mange and various parasites, as well as what looked like a mushroomy growth in his ears. She cleaned them out as best she could, and they appeared to be clear when he went to his new home, but now I wonder if it could have been Schizophyllum. I think her vet took a sample, so I'll give her this link in case he wants to check. I didn't even think of that, though I had heard about it being a risk for growing in the lungs if huffed.
@@karentinkum365 This was happening to me! I had severe external ear infections for about 8 years- saw just about every ENT in the Portland, Or area. I was given so many things that made it worse. It was a horrible painful journey. Finally, I saw a young nurse practitioner who was excited about the mystery and took several cultures. She was thrilled with finding it. She filled my ear canal completely with a cream for an entire month. I have not had an issue since-5 ish years now. She's my savior.
"Are you eating it, or is it eating you?!" 😂 This is so weird cuz this is the second time you posted a video of a mushroom I just found!!!! I'm new to mushrooms so I always have to go to mushroom forums to ask for help identifying them.
My moron of the neighbor used to collect sticks from his yard covered in these mushrooms and burn them en masse in windy weather, releasing spores into the air. Took a visit from the fire marshall to get him to stop doing it. One of these times it was so windy that sparks from the firepit set his dry grass on fire, then set his dog's fur on fire, and then set his own clothes on fire. My family member who has asthma had to go to the hospital because he felt sick. He was given various medications and sent back home. Stupidity will kill the world.
Beautiful weather the past few days. Didnt get the rain up here, but we have tons of s. commune. Was thinking of trying to cultivate them on some branches... maybe not now though. Thanks adam
Excellent..and thank you for demonstrating that Terrain Theory stands head and shoulders above the silly Germ Theory. "The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything." Louis Pasteur
Wow!! that's amazing! thanks for the information, fungi never cease to fascinate me. It appears that gills of this mushroom open at the top of the cap, as opposed to the underside. Is that the case, or am I mistaken?
@@chezmoi42 that may be so. but look at the thumbnail pic for the video...there are a few shots that appear to show caps seemingly affixed to the stick, but with no apparent stem originating from the center of the gills. I may be mistaken, as I am unaware of any fruiting bodies with the gills exposed on topside of the cap.
@@samhaines8228 As I said, the gills are not on the top of the cap; the whole stick with the mushrooms on it is turned upside down. If you have a field guide, look at the growth habit of some varieties of, for example, Pleurotus, Crepidotus, Hohenbuehelia, or Panellus, many of which grow with little to no apparent 'stem'. If no book available, google images of each family. Many mature into a fan shape, but very young specimens are often round and look similarly attached.
@@chezmoi42 I'm familiar with the oyster mushrooms. I have no guide but will Google the varieties mentioned. I realize as it matures it morphs into a fan shape. thanks for the information!
@@samhaines8228 Great, always happy to inspire curiosity! I highly recommend a good field guide. I started by hanging out at our local pharmacy, studying their references, until they sent them home with me for the weekend. 😊 I found a local naturalist association, and was hooked. That was 25 years ago, and now I'm thoroughly immersed in mycology, seconding my mentor, Jean-Luc, for our sorties and annual expo. ua-cam.com/video/dG32fTpBO2A/v-deo.html (Me in the brown jacket pulling ID labels)
My grandfather lost his hearing because of a fungal infection he picked up after he crash landed in the jungles of Vietnam. The fungus was eating his ears inside out… Human eating fungus.
No Split-Gill body products for me! (I'm surprised any culture will eat them.) Thanks, Adam! Just another: Informative, and educational Mushroom Video! Excellent work!
This vid reminded me of a mystery that has been bugging me for a long time (since 2015). I went on a spectacular overdrinking binge & puked my brains out, repetedly. The last couple evacuations were completely clear liquid, except for 1 giant (3/4"-1") black button-like thing. I just had to fish it out of the toilet to take a closer look (yeah, i did that). It was fairly easy to break when wet but hard as wood when dry. Ive always wondered if it was some kind of fungus. I tend to chew my food much better than most so its impossible that i swallowed something that large. So i cant help thinking that it grew inside my stomach. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?
You may not like them at first, but in time they will really grow on you!
Lmao
Hahahaha jaja
Best comment on you tube
Good one
Boy, you're a really fungi 😂
As a small child, I watched a movie called "Attack of The Mushroom People", about people whose bodies were taken over by mushrooms. I had nightmares for weeks and was terrified of mushrooms. Mom said it was just a movie and that it couldn't happen for real.
I'll never trust her again.
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Luckily the TLoU is only fiction, at least from a human's perspective.
"Most common cause of infection is through the inhalation of spores" BOY PUT THAT STICK DOWN 😂😂
I was gonna say “as he touching it breathing it in” 😂
Waving it around like a magic wand. Love this guy though, was definally cringy to learn. I will have nightmares tonight of those growing on me.
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I had that thought 😆
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"Toxic food. Toxic water. Toxic thoughts and toxic people....." Amen to that! :)
Yes but if you cook all these together with love and smile you can call friends and enjoy a gourmet night...
Toxic thoughts are the most lethal. Most of humanity suffers from it.
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Nah, most of humanity doesn't know what they're thinking half the time, and the other half is thinking about sleep, food and sex.
DITTO!!!
Stop talking about my mother and her cooking 🤣🤣🤣
Human substrate. Eaten from within. Its the name of my new metal album.
I make a delicious "Pulled Pork" out of these mushrooms, by slow roasting them with onions, dried peppers, and tomatoes for a couple hours, then adding BBQ sauce for another half-hour or so. (In the winter, I like pairing them with Floccularia albolanaripes that tastes like sweet corn. So I can have a "summertime" dinner in the winter - from mushrooms.) I like that Split Gills are easy to identify and are worth harvesting even when they have dried out, but they take a little more effort to remove the woody part where they attach to the log or bark. They are one of the first fungus to show up on newly dead wood that still has bark, and there can be a lot of them. And I have found them even in dry areas of Kansas, Texas, and Arizona, so their spores have got to be so common that most of us have breathed them in over many years.
If they're edible to us, it's only fair that we're edible to them
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Reminds me of "The Stuff" movie! "Are you eating it, or is it eating you?!" Hahaa!
Like carrots?
@@Ronnie-Jones is that fucking Neo-Nazi propaganda!?
That's food for thought, oh wait its in my brain...
Laugh out loud. Thanks for the humor.
I just read about this poor guy who injected himself with shroom tea and they were “growing inside him”. I feel bad for him but it’s also pretty amazing that the spores survived boiling and being inside of him.
Ha! I just read about the same thing: www.livescience.com/amp/magic-mushroom-injection-case-report.html
People are nuts!
@@aimee-lynndonovan6077 yeah... actually nuts, though. He read shrooms were being used to treat depression was trying to self medicate his own chronic manic-depressive episodes. He's definitely misguided but overall just a sad story.
@@zachkiss8870 He gave himself a fungal blood infection on purpose?
This is a real concern for people with cystic fibrosis and one of the things that really limits life expectancy in CF patients is opportunistic infection with fungal spores which can germinate in their lung tissue and lead to a horrendous inflammatory immune response which causes real damage
Wow😢
End mycophobia! Treat it with experiential education. Love your work.
There was a man here in Britain a few years ago who had an operation to remove a tumour from his lung and when they operated they found it was a pea shoot growing inside him.
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Hold your breath when you're around the Split Gill Adam. We need you to keep feeding us this amazing content. My knowledge is 'mushrooming'!
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That is terrifying.
I find it often.
I had no idea that it can infect humans.
I like your chanterelle pic
If you find it often it means you have nothing to worry about.
@@CMZneu why?
@@baldy22 Because he is probably immune to it just like the rest of us who come in contact with all kinds of spores, bacteria, viruses etc. I started visiting forests when i was 6 years old, im 33 now and dont even remember the last time i got sick. I eat everything the forests gives me, from fruits to nuts to herbs to mushrooms, i get trace elements, vitamins, antioxidants, oxalic acids, inulin, and other things these Supermarket veggies fruits and herbs dont have, they are almost all grown in greenhouses in netherlands or spain, in hydroponics, with mineral or sometimes even chemical fertilizers, if those Supermarket fruits and veggies do something its the exact opposite, they make you sick, full of pesticides, fungicides and who knows what other DNA killing and cancerous disease causing shit is on there. People need to wake up, eat regional from your farmers market, eat from your forests etc.
The Peterson Field Guide to Mushrooms on page 298 states that the Splitgill is "capable of Eating humans!"
Adam, I saw the movie "Matango" when I was a kid in the early 70's . It took me many years to be able to eat mushrooms again. Now you tell us about this! LOL! I became whole food plant based several years back. Mushrooms are an important part of my diet and nutrition. Good thing my fear of all of the other toxic things out weighs my fear of becoming a mushroom! Thanks for providing all of the great info.
Is that movie about mushrooms?
@@gramzy1895 Yes, from back in the day when there were no age limits on scary movies. Fortunately I became better informed and used common sense.
@@lorrihoppe7500 What is it about?
"...can and MUST co-exsist with them." This is actually empowering to hear.
Unless they support Trump, then we must round them up and destroy them.
@@sdafasdfasdfsda Lmfaoo
sdafasdfasdfsda there are too many of them; Although there are exceptions (especially trump's cronies themselves) the majority of these people are honest-to-goodness brainwashed. It isn't right to condemn someone who honestly believes in their heart that they are doing the right thing, that is what the insanity clause is legally for in court.
I am not condoning trumpists' behavior in any way, but I am saying that the correct way to deal with this massive problem is re-education programs. I know many countries have used "re-education programs" in order to brainwash and radicalize those enlisted, but in this case I am suggesting there is a legitimate and positive reason to implement these services immediately come 1/20. There are a LOT of people who drank the kool-aid and didn't know it (just like most cults) and have been asleep in a long crazy dream land ever since; The best thing for the country and the cultists themselves is to just bring them to their senses. DJT has surely earned a Guinness world record for "Most people conned". We need to stop treating this like an actual political disagreement and start treating it like the psychological issue it really is.
@@p1nkfreud Yea I'm sure the fellows who work in nazi death camps were pretty decent folks too who thought they were doing the right thing.
Bill Astell Working in a place where you routinely kill hundreds of people at once is not the same as being tricked into believing the end of the world is coming if you don't do something about it. Again, not condoning their behavior at all - it was foul. I can't stand trump, never have. But these people are being convinced that they are victims and martyrs; That's different than believing that genocide is "the right thing to do".
Kind of scary , but I have often thought about stuff like this when stepping on dry puff ball's.
Same!
Got to wait until they are just perfect then you jump. Spores everywhere just doing the lords work
Omg me too!
I was walking in Point Defiance park, Tacoma WA. on a five mile loop when I spotted a dog turd covered with a bluish fungi or mold. Then I began to notice that the mold/fungi highlighted dog turds throughout the five mile loop. It then occurred to me that the mold/fungi had found every dog turd (of a certain age) on the trail or in the woods. I then realized that the mold/fungi spores were everywhere (in that woods). This led me to believe that I was inhaling mold spores constantly. I tried not inhaling but that only worked for about a minute. I decided to live in symbiosis with molds and fungi. That spread to living in symbiosis with all living things. I included rocks in this as I love rocks. The hardest thing has been living in symbiosis with humans who aren't living in symbiosis. Thanks for your attention, I have been wanting to tell this story.
And now I have read your story, Michael Walling. The wind blows across the continent from Tacoma to us in Niagara, where I am learning to breathe. (four months later)
You definitely like your mushrooms.... Maybe give them a break for a bit.
excellent video again Adam! You forgot to mention a particularly nasty fungus that makes Candida look like a walk in the park, that would be Epidermophyton floccosum. I know, I was infected with it and it spread to my hands. I was being treated for Candida. The dressing on my feet looked just like the agar growth I found on the web. I contacted my doctor and he prescribed a different cream, within 5 hours my hands cleared up and my feet looked better. But wait! there's more! I got a secondary infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa that has plagued me for the last 6 years, the only thing that will work is silvadine cream. To date, after 6 years, the infection on my left foot has healed, the right is almost there. Fungus is nothing to fung with.
iggy
This was the first mushroom I ever positively identified, growing right in my back yard!
Same
Maybe one day it can grow on your back.
Thank you for this presentation. I see this mushroom all around. I had no idea it would or could use a living human for a substrate. Interesting to say the least. I'm glad you shared this information.
Iv heard that the spoors of every mushroom indigenous to your area are present in every room of every building you enter. People with healthy NATURAL immune systems have less to fear than those suffering from an over abundance of modernity such as sugar, alcohol, and chemicals jmho
Well, don't huff the caps or anything and you should be fine.
This is a very informative video, and I like the way you keep emphasizing that your chances of contracting this fungus as a parasite in your body are extremely slim. Unfortunately, some people will use this as evidence to never walk in the woods. They don't understand the need to know everything about a fungus, not just the good things. Thanks, Dr. H.
Yey, this format is better! I'd also start with the last phrase, antithetical as it might sound: "so, don't fear fungi, but learn and appreciate all the ways you CAN and MUST coexist with them". This is truly the motto of this channel
Great video! To be clear this is not normal behavior and prob does not benefit from growing on humans, it's an anomaly that might happen only to sick people with specific conditions and even then you still have an astronomically higher chance to be struck by lightning than being infected with this fungus.
I've always thought S. commune is so beautiful. I've inhaled so many spores it's amazing I don't have mushrooms growing out of my ears. 👂🏻Good video!
Thanks for the mycology! I’m close to the coastline so it’s a long drive to meet with the local mycological group for me. Very informative and entertaining! Nice work
I love your videos, and always learn from them. It never ceases to amaze me that so many people give them a thumbs down. I think that can only be credited to envy, especially since I've not seen anyone ever contradict any of your information.
Your content is certainly a mark above the rest. Fascinating!❤
I love how this unfolded like a game. He kept eluding to hints about what mushroom it is lol. You'd make an excellent dinner theatre host sir lol
Great work Adam ! I have cut and handled a lot of firewood that had the Split Gill on it so I'm guessing I inhaled many many spores.
As always, a wonderful learning adventure! Thank you Adam, from all of us and Happy New Year!
Thanks for the video my man. I've found this mushroom on three separate occasions within the past few weeks over here in South Korea. I was confused to find that the mushroom is edible, has medicinal properties, but also causes serious health issues. Your video helped clear some of that up!
I am always very impressed with your informative videos. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!! Love your videos brother. No toxic thoughts, no toxic people, great advice.
thanks for all your hard work I appreciate you
well done production. You're a very savvy dude. Thank you
As a wise man once said, "fuck that."
Please don't. Do racoons instead.
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NOOO! THEY R GORGEOUS 😍
@@rockytom5889 *cough cough
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It would have been really cool if you would've made a video about natural ways to get rid of candida!!!😁 also good content on your channel!💪
Great video Adam, thank you for sharing.
Thank you very much for your videos! I just watch your video on Learn To Identify Wild Edible Enoki Mushrooms and it's absolutely top quality.
Have a nice day and thanks from Sweden.
Enoki are great with noodles !
Thank you Adam!
7.7 billion people on earth. Nature won't ignore such an abundant food source for long.
Interesting? Always love new or little known info. Great job.
Q: What about mold (ie black mold) ''colonize'' human bodies? or Cause death?
Thanks very much for the video and the good information.😊
I love to eat this mushroom and used to collect them with my grandaunt when she went to tap the rubber trees in the morning.
Usually we collect this and fern shoots(yes,we eat ferns).
It's called kulat sisir(literal translation:comb fungus) in Malaysian language.
Such a great time,my grandaunt taught me where to look for this,usually they grow on the dead rubber tree branches.
We usually cook them in masak lemak udang kering (a dish made from coconut milk,some dried shrimp and some turmeric powder) or stir fried with shallot and garlic.
Usually they have small bugs or insect larvas in them,so we usually soak them,change the water and soak them again before cooking them.We'll remove the hard part where it attached itself to the branch.
They tasted good-kind of earthy and smells like fungus even when cooked.
Now living in the city,kinda hard to get them fresh and quite expensive even for the dried ones.
In the past,those mushrooms are not just free but also fresh.
Really miss that good old times.
hahaha..but a bit scared to eat now that I know they could infect human.😅
If you’re not sick by now, I think you’ll be okay.😅
@@aimee-lynndonovan6077 thank you.I'm still alive and kicking😆😆😆😆
Love that you shared this. Really interesting. From his video If I ever tried it, I know what to do with those unused covid masks...lol I wonder if the coconut and turmeric don't have properties that make them safer as well. Neat.
Very fascinating! Thank you for sharing, I love to learn about mushroos. I just found a mushroom, I took some pictures and I didn't know that it parasitizes truffles so I came back to the forest to check the truffle part 🤎🖤🍄 nature is amazing.
Was that the one that grows on Elaphomyces? Cordyceps are fascinating!
Totally agree with you, Cordyceps are definitely fascinating, I have found some but it was long ago and I hope to find more soon. The one I found 2 days ago was a Tolypocladium Longisegmentum that parasitizes Elaphomyces truffles in particular I read that often confused with Tolypocladium capitatum, the two species can be differentiated via spore size and cap glossiness. I have a short video on my channel 🤎🖤🍄
@@Arleth7 Cool little video, thanks! Whereabouts are you? We have the T. capitatum (formerly Elaphocordyceps capitata) here in central France.
Yet another new name since I learned them, so many changes to remember. * sigh *
@@chezmoi42 I live in North Carolina, USA, and I love hiking. Definitely so many types of mushrooms to learn about 💚🍄. Thank you for watching my video 😊
Very interesting thanks for sharing.
Thank you Adam I had no idea about this fungi and its infection nature! Much love and happy year of new 2021! Much love
I was surprised when you didn't talk about how they were prepared as a food. Who eats them, where, are they the same tiny ones you're holding or bigger ones, and how are they cooked?
He mentioned trying them and they were meh. There are "famine foods" people will eat when times are tough, and sometimes those become something that's eaten out of custom.
The hunter has become the hunted.
"The hunter has become the hunterED... "
The chaser has become the chosed
Hunters from the last of us: Allow us to introduce ourselves!
Fascinating discussion, Adam! Also, the cool reggae intro and outro were sweet! Did you compose, and/or play the music?
Idk about the intro music, but if you want to hear something Adam did play, look up "Manic Ritual" on UA-cam. He used to play drums in a metal band!
Personally, as someone else who features in embarrassing videos from a teenage metalcore band, hidden somewhere in the dark corners of the internet, I find it SO amusing to watch the naturalist we've come to know and love banging out blast-beats with his hair in his eyes. 😂
Glad he grew out of this: ua-cam.com/video/Y6qDKtFAI6Y/v-deo.html
@@timothkeyyprice Well no reason to get judgy about it. People are allowed to have their fun.
Wow. That made my day.
It's just funny to see him in that light.
Wait..what?... mind blown. 😲 😍
Very Well Done
Thanks for sharing
Always great information. Thanks! ✌🏽
Best mushroom channel out there!
Great info as always. Happy New Year Adam.
That is the most disgusting thing I have ever wished I had not learned about!
Thank you Adam for that information and insight. I find these a lot and have taken some beautiful photos of some. I have wondered about spores in the air and if they could harm us, now I know! I guess it would be wise to take precaution when closely photographing them and other fungi!
There was a medical case this week where someone injected a magic mushroom tea into their blood and it started growing inside their body.
Edit was for spelling mistake which I misspelled “mushroom” as “mistook”
May you give more elaborate info on this? It sounds like something to peer into.
Adam you are awesome bro!! helped me so much in my new love for mycology, massive love from England bro
Fantastic video, so informative. Thank you.
I have read about the genetic similarities between fungi and Humans. That is why it is so difficult for medical treatments to kill fungal infections. If it kills a fungus, good chance it will kill the host.
Great video!
Toxic people just need some fun, guy.
Human remediation through fungi 😎
Their idea of fun that is toxic too 😳 like telling the world it is getting warm, too many people, 👑 9+10, etc...
@@shengsun5916 Are you saying global warming is real or fake? It's hard to tell what you're saying based on the way you put it. Not trying to be mean I'm just curious what you meant!
That pun was poly-poor...
Ey?
Don't call me fungi, buddy!
They are very beautiful in person! 💕
...and easy to train.😈🇺🇸
Thank you so much for teaching us brother.
Freakishly fascinating, but fair game when discussing the totality of flora.
Who else clicked on this after hearing about the guy who injected magic mushroom tea into his veins and started growing fungi in his body?
Crazy
Same question I had
Meee
Actually the opposite thing happened to me since Fresh Cap Mushrooms released its video a few days after Adam posted this one. They were both fascinating in their own way. I’m glad they chose different studies to focus on, but you got to wonder if they were collaborating. I’m cool with that. :)
Rob Fanzega, yeah, some idiot made mushroom tea with psychedelic mushrooms, and instead of drinking it, he injected it. A few days later, he started developing multiple organ failure. His blood showed fungus growth and a much of other crap, so he was put on heavy doses of antibiotics and antifungals. Turns out injecting fungal spores and bacteria into your body is a bad idea.
Lovely. Pennsylvania quakers pioneered the southern Ontario farms around here. They may have brought mushrooms with them when they built the Sharon temple. We live inside of a mystery. We know the land holds the greatest secrets.
Would drinking disinfectant help?
lol (no, please don't ;) )
I have it on very good authority that If you shine a UV light up your bum it will cure it.
Yes about 80 proof bourbon should help
It's so pretty :) looks like part of an oceans reef - like coral, maybe.
Wow! Thanks for the great info.
I just ate one of these a week or two back. I didn't know about their tendency to colonize humans, I was sniffing the cap and gills before proper id. Definitely keeping my nose away from these in the future. Pretty distinct as it is - they are tasty too.
Hey, so how are you feeling now? Any news? Just sniffed one this weekend and got all paranoid after reading up about it online later on.
@@andrasabin4828 I feel fine! No complaints. I think it may be an issue that arises when people's immune system is compromised. So I think that you should be fine
I had an infection of this fungus growing in my ear! So now I won't breathe when I am around it...LOL I know it doesn't matter, but I can't help it! ((For background I have psoriasis in my ears, so they think I may have itched with some spores on my nail introducing it to my ear canal- which is a perfect shroom incubator!- I was in school for ecological biology at the time doing mycoremediation research))
I just shared this with a family member who also has psoriasis in the ears. They said, thanks for sharing your story. As hard as it is, one more important reason not to stick your finger in your ear, no matter how itchy it is!
I wonder if I have something similar. I've had very scaly, itchy ears for about 5 years. NOTHING makes it go away! I've asked 3 doctors about it. They just said that some people have rashes, and didn't give me anything for it. ???
@@karentinkum365 Wow, that's harsh. I know from this person in my family that it is worse in the winter. UV actually improves it. Keeping a low sugar diet really seems to help a lot, to the point where it is almost gone most of the time. It can get really badly cracked and oozing sometimes, can cause ear infections, gets flaky and itchy. There are some great creams out there. I think you need to see a psoriasis specialist to rule it out. I do hope you get help with it. Good luck!
Well, that's carrying research a little far, I'd say! I hope you've remained mushroom-free since then.
Interestingly, a woman who does cat rescue recently took in a cat with mange and various parasites, as well as what looked like a mushroomy growth in his ears. She cleaned them out as best she could, and they appeared to be clear when he went to his new home, but now I wonder if it could have been Schizophyllum. I think her vet took a sample, so I'll give her this link in case he wants to check. I didn't even think of that, though I had heard about it being a risk for growing in the lungs if huffed.
@@karentinkum365 This was happening to me! I had severe external ear infections for about 8 years- saw just about every ENT in the Portland, Or area. I was given so many things that made it worse. It was a horrible painful journey. Finally, I saw a young nurse practitioner who was excited about the mystery and took several cultures. She was thrilled with finding it. She filled my ear canal completely with a cream for an entire month. I have not had an issue since-5 ish years now. She's my savior.
Great content. Always fascinated, and learning something. Thanks for putting in the work! Stay curious
It's ironic that I'm watching this video as I currently have a fungal infection in my sinuses.
Thank you Adam
"Are you eating it, or is it eating you?!" 😂
This is so weird cuz this is the second time you posted a video of a mushroom I just found!!!! I'm new to mushrooms so I always have to go to mushroom forums to ask for help identifying them.
My moron of the neighbor used to collect sticks from his yard covered in these mushrooms and burn them en masse in windy weather, releasing spores into the air. Took a visit from the fire marshall to get him to stop doing it. One of these times it was so windy that sparks from the firepit set his dry grass on fire, then set his dog's fur on fire, and then set his own clothes on fire. My family member who has asthma had to go to the hospital because he felt sick. He was given various medications and sent back home. Stupidity will kill the world.
excellent.
Love your videos thankyou for making them in excited for the future of what you have to come
Beautiful weather the past few days. Didnt get the rain up here, but we have tons of s. commune. Was thinking of trying to cultivate them on some branches... maybe not now though. Thanks adam
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Excellent..and thank you for demonstrating that Terrain Theory stands head and shoulders above the silly Germ Theory. "The germ is nothing, the terrain is everything." Louis Pasteur
Anybody else feel the need to cough and clear your throat while watching this? Geez, this gave me the heebie-jeebies. 😨
*mushroom that can grow in and on humans exists*
humans: I think I'm going to eat this...
lol. I just posted.....Oh, Hell no!
amazing info Adam Thankyou of sharing your knowledge 👍👍👍
Wow!! that's amazing! thanks for the information, fungi never cease to fascinate me. It appears that gills of this mushroom open at the top of the cap, as opposed to the underside. Is that the case, or am I mistaken?
No, he just turned the stick upside down to show the gills. At 2:50 you can see it right side up.
@@chezmoi42 that may be so. but look at the thumbnail pic for the video...there are a few shots that appear to show caps seemingly affixed to the stick, but with no apparent stem originating from the center of the gills.
I may be mistaken, as I am unaware of any fruiting bodies with the gills exposed on topside of the cap.
@@samhaines8228 As I said, the gills are not on the top of the cap; the whole stick with the mushrooms on it is turned upside down.
If you have a field guide, look at the growth habit of some varieties of, for example, Pleurotus, Crepidotus, Hohenbuehelia, or Panellus, many of which grow with little to no apparent 'stem'. If no book available, google images of each family. Many mature into a fan shape, but very young specimens are often round and look similarly attached.
@@chezmoi42 I'm familiar with the oyster mushrooms. I have no guide but will Google the varieties mentioned. I realize as it matures it morphs into a fan shape.
thanks for the information!
@@samhaines8228 Great, always happy to inspire curiosity! I highly recommend a good field guide. I started by hanging out at our local pharmacy, studying their references, until they sent them home with me for the weekend. 😊 I found a local naturalist association, and was hooked.
That was 25 years ago, and now I'm thoroughly immersed in mycology, seconding my mentor, Jean-Luc, for our sorties and annual expo. ua-cam.com/video/dG32fTpBO2A/v-deo.html (Me in the brown jacket pulling ID labels)
Friend “Dare you to eat this mushroom”
Me “Nope, I’m out”
My grandfather lost his hearing because of a fungal infection he picked up after he crash landed in the jungles of Vietnam. The fungus was eating his ears inside out… Human eating fungus.
Awesome video Adam.
Wow... he included toxic thought & toxic people... I subscribed.
Thanks for your interesting, fact-filled presentation. Really enjoyed it and am fascinated by fungi.
It sounds so gross💜 that's a bit scary with how the spores explode beyond the human eye sight💜glad to hear it's probably not super common
I, for one, welcome our mycological overlords! (kidding) Thanks for yet more information, Adam. I hope your 2021 is off to a great start. Stay well.
Your comment reminds me of some Futurerama episodes, lol.
Thank you for yet another fascinating video, Adam!!! :-D
No Split-Gill body products for me! (I'm surprised any culture will eat them.)
Thanks, Adam! Just another: Informative, and educational Mushroom Video! Excellent work!
That was fascinating.
Awesome video. That so weird I will call it the Split Gill COVID mushroom lol. Thanks for the fungi info so cool!
This vid reminded me of a mystery that has been bugging me for a long time (since 2015). I went on a spectacular overdrinking binge & puked my brains out, repetedly. The last couple evacuations were completely clear liquid, except for 1 giant (3/4"-1") black button-like thing. I just had to fish it out of the toilet to take a closer look (yeah, i did that). It was fairly easy to break when wet but hard as wood when dry. Ive always wondered if it was some kind of fungus. I tend to chew my food much better than most so its impossible that i swallowed something that large. So i cant help thinking that it grew inside my stomach. Has anyone ever heard of such a thing?
Horrifying 🤯
Scary. I wonder how many cases are undiagnosed
So... that's how the people in The Walking Dead have survived for so long!
Happy New Year Adam. I'm curious how you prepared them & what did they taste like 🤔
Yea me too cuz I'm harvesting some tomorrow to eat.
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A lady in NZ died of it. I think I'd be cooing mine thoroughly after this.
What did she say!???