Are Mushrooms The Secret to Rewilding Britain?
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Gotta say, I rather enjoyed watching a man progressively having a mental breakdown just from not finding a colourful mushroom.
I will sacrifice my sanity to make an entertaining video. You're very welcome haha
@@LeaveCurious and it was quite worth it haha
I love that fungi are finally starting to get the attention they deserve. Although related to this, people should make sure that if they are foraging, that they aren't picking places dry.
Yeah absolutely fascinating Paul! Thats a good point too, important to let them be!
Love a bit of moist
Its just like picking apples! So long as you're not hurting the 'tree', you can pick what you like. They've already shed spores.
@@LeaveCurious No! They're fruit, just don't be rough with the mycelium and you're good.
You asked for anything we recognised so here's a few of my first guesses/"recognitions"-
0:46 Woodland inkcap
0:49 possibly scarlet or crimson waxcap
0:55 & 1:46 Beefsteak fungus
2:31 Red Cracked Bolete
2:33 Sepia Bolete
2:36 Magpie Inkcap
3:55 can't see the gills but potentially Porcelain fungus
3:56+ Parasol or shaggy parasol
4:42 Heath waxcap
5:12 probably Bolete family
5:39 lower: Sulphur tuft
5:41 Angels Wings Pleurocybella porrigens
5:42 Ganoderma family, possibly Ganoderma applanatum
5:58 possibly Clouded Agaric, wood blewit or Cortinarius family
6:23 Hen of the Woods
6:24 Jelly ears
6:41+ Probably Lilac Fibrecap rather than Amethyst Deceiver
7:44 Scarlet Elfcup
7:58 Tawny Grisette
8:11 Tawny Funnelcap
8:54 not sure, old Blackening Polypore?
Note that all of these are just my first guesses and a single image/video screen often can't and probably shouldn't be used to identify mushrooms in most cases, especially if you're ever consider eating something where you should be 100% sure first.
nice one!!
3:56 is just a normal parasol
Shaggy Parasol doesn't feature the same snakeskin pattern on the stalk & often it'll bruise red around slug damage
I think you did actually find one! It seemed purplish inside…..As they get older and if they have been through a dry period, like our recent drought, they can appear whiter. Love your videos! You are a good egg!
You reckon? I hope so, I’m still not satisfied until I see a glowing one*. Appreciate it thank you
@@LeaveCurious No the purple/pink ones you found were Mycena pura/rosea.
I love how you capture the fun of a good nature hike, reveling in everything you find even if it’s not the thing you set out looking for :)
Ahhh appreciate this Ben, finding it really would of been the cherry on the cake.
Of course! Hopefully next time, and it’s a good excuse for another adventure
@@IbexWatcher oh always! Think I’ll go early to mid September next time.
Such coincidence, I stumbled upon an amethyst deceiver on Friday. It was growing on the forest ground and it was actually quite difficult to spot. Who knew a faded purple would blend in with the forest floor? I'm hoping you can still find them! I found mine in a relatively small forest, around the size of a small park, so who knows
Your enthusiasm is really infectious, so happy I found your videos! Thank you and keep up the good work 🥰
Ahh thank you Anna, I appreciate comments like this a lot!!
6:45 from the quick glance we got, it looks like mycena pura to me. These aren't the shrooms you're looking for.
PS: I'm kinda jealous of some of your finds. Lots of oxtongue, although it definitely looked past it's prime (but it comes back in the same spot every year since it parasitises certain tree species), and some hen of the woods, which also come back yearly. the blue one at 2:00 looks like Clitocybe odora to me, aka the aniseed toadstool, which as it's name suggests smells like aniseed!
I found a few yesterday in a tiny nature reserve near my house, purple as anything! I love fungi, if you haven't already I highly highly suggest reading ''entangled life'' by Merlin Sheldrake, it's an incredible book about mycology and I ended up writing about it in my personal statement lol, hopefully it gets me some offers.
I am dying to read his book, he seems like such a character, watched many videos on him. Good luck with your applications!
Yes, a superb book. I would highly recommend it 😀
Happy to say we have lots of amethyst deceivers in our 10 year old coppice. Happily growing under hazel and sweet chestnut in West Yorkshire. Happy to show you some but not sure how much longer they will be around for.
Ahh nice, enjoy them for me haha cheers
This was a really interesting video Rob! I find there's so many less mushrooms in the UK than I used to find foraging for mushrooms as a kid in France.
Cheers Alana! Hmmmm I found they can be so easily overlooked!
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Ayyyyeeee nice one! Appreciate it :) thanks for your support!
This was a great video! I went looking for Fly agaric mushrooms and this video was my internal monologue the whole time🤣 (did end up finding one the size of a dinner plate)
Ahhh no way that’s awesome!!! They’re really impressive iconic mushrooms. Cheers Will 🌿
I related to the energy in the middle of the video so much. I was thinking "yeah, Ive been there before just not over a mushroom hunt."
Thank you for this video. The more I learn about fungi the more I wonder why they dont get talked about more.
Hahah, it felt like looking a needle in a big hay stack, a metaphor of life. I appreciate it - they're amazing aren't they and require so much more attention.
I love these purple mushrooms. I've luckily stumbled upon a handful of these purple guys through out different hikes here in NW Oregon. I sadly never had my DSLR with me. I was just wondering around with my dogs. I hope to photograph these beauties someday. I'm the same as you where I hike, take photos, appreciate mushrooms, love to photograph them but I personally don't know a lot about a ton of mushrooms. I like to share my photos with a fungi identification group on Facebook and I've learned a lot over the last couple years. There is just so much to learn about fungi and lichen. It's actually mind boggling. I'm just a fan of it and I love searching for things in the woods so it creates this type of treasure hunt sorta pass time. It's really fun. Makes me feel like a kid again.
Aah. A small gem in the turmoil of the UK. Thank you so much. Say. What do you think the shrooms taste like🧐
I really don't know although people do enjoy eating them! Cheers!!
Just wanted to say how much I LOVE mushrooms! All fungi are fantastic and I'm all here for more videos on fungi
Yes me too, I have new found appreciation for them after making this video. I'm sure its a topic ill be covering more because its just so important!!
I read a book about mushrooms this spring (in Swedish and it's not translated into English... yet?) and mushrooms are really cool! I remember being especially amazed by how they can grow deep deep down in cracks in the bedrock, like kilometres down! It's amazing!
This was a really nice video, but too bad you didn't get to see the mushroom. Since it's purple it must be very pretty to see irl :) Better luck next year! And the Mossy Earth project seems really interesting, I'm hoping for updates! :)
(For those who speak Swedish it's Svamparnas planet by Jesper Nyström.)
ahh what book is it? I'm looking to dive into a good fungi book. Yes I'm very excited to learn more about their projects relating fungi, doing really good work. Cheers!!!
@@LeaveCurious haha I think you read my comment too quickly, since the book title is in the original comment: Svamparnas planet by Jesper Nyström and it's in Swedish.
But I hope you find another good book about fungi! :)
They are awesome..they have massive power as you have intimated above..like nuclear levels of force..they can reduce entire mountains to soil. David Moore has a good website for fungus and people like Paul Stamets can be found here, fungi perfecti etc
Mushrooms are truly magic and intelligent, man. Definitely a big part of my life now.
Have you ever gone looking for any psychoactive ones like Liberty Caps, Wavy Caps or Amanita Muscaria?
Hmm not with any great intention like in this video, maybe one for the future?
@@LeaveCurious It would be an interesting video. I don’t see much mushroom videos on this channel in general, although you’re other content is great too.
Great video again. I love the fun fact that fungi have even been used to plan our cities. I will be boring many people with that nugget of info. :)
So much to learn from the kingdom of fungi! Cheers Matt :)
Lovely video; your images of fungi were excellent. We have lots of amethyst deceivers in our little ancient woodland in Cheshire, I love seeing them. You are right, they do fade as they get older. I'm no expert but I think the mushroom you found around 7:00 was a lilac fibrecap, which are also beautiful.
I had a great time filming them, much easier than animals. Ahh lovely, I really should of had my book with me to I.d them, but I was a literally bit determined for that!
Cheers Mark!
I have to say, the Amethyst Deceivers I'm collecting right now are as purple as it's possible for them to be. When they fade on top, it's my experience that their stems 'remain' purple and don't turn that tawny colour. So I'm not sure what they were. Also, you need to be careful of Lilac Fibrecap.
I think you're conducting too quick a search. Running about too much. Amethyst Deceivers are the reward for the patient, gently ambling forager.
I have found them growing under quite as many ancient Oaks as Beech trees. In fact, the best haul I've had this year was in a copse of very old Oaks (which also produced a very nice haul of Hen of the Woods too).
Yes, there is certainly a great advantage for a tree to be inoculated whilst young.
However, I don't have the money to spare for expensive, lab-created liquids with which to inoculate my own tree seedlings.
Instead, over the past 10 years, I have grown a number of tree seedlings in pots. Once Autumn arrives, I collect and break up old mushroom caps into tiny pieces, mix them up, and then scatter them onto the surface of the pots like a very thin mulch. Mycelium soon proliferates, coats the tree seedling roots within, and then they're planted out. Before now, I have upended a pot and found the rootball to be entirely white with mycelium.
I also apply leftover amounts of this home-made mushroom mulch around trees already planted and growing in my garden.
So far, I've introduced Fly Agaric, Bay and Birch Bolete, I see the occasional Amethyst Deceiver around (but I leave these well alone, as they are few and I want them to spread), Griselle, the occasional Stump Puffball, Trametes, and a few others whose names escape me right now (I tend to forget those that are either inedible or look less interesting).
The trees 'do' grow better now these fungi are here, and I'm hoping that now I can chop and drop more material as the hedgerow grows, they will break this matter down into soil all the faster.
ANOTHER AWESOME VID ROB.. very educational and inspiring as always mate. Love em :)
Cheers man, appreciate it!
Don't worry about not finding it, a lot of mushroom are extremely time sensitive. I love to forage and basically you get a very narrow time window for certain types of mushroom (maybe like a week) and a wide one for some others (we get the bay bolete for a month and a half). I don't really know the amethyst deceiver, so I can't tell if that was it or not, but don't be discouraged, try again next year. Maybe bring someone who knows how to forage for mushroom with you, though. Some mushroom can look a lot like some others, so you could be deceived. (*badum-tss, I'll show myself out)
Hahaha good one… yeah you’re right, short windows to find it is what makes it all the more the exciting. I was a couple weeks at least out I think! Better luck next year!!
A good way of spotting mushrooms is squatting close to the ground and looking across the ground, they tend to protrude/ shine/ have a rounded look in comparison to the leaf litter.
If you're really brave then a white torch in low light conditions really make them stand out when you get low to the ground, happy hunting
Have you heard about the plan to forest the west of Ireland that was recently announced in the Irish farmers journal?? It would great if you did a video about this.
Hi there, loved this video but I'm not seeing so many Amethyst Deceivers now. Sussex. They're going over, I saw a few about 2-3 weeks ago, not copious quantities. Small window. Absolutely beautiful mushroom.
Hey Elaine, ahh i know I think I was just a little bit too late, perhaps i need see it and I was deceived? Thanks for the comment, really appreciate it!!
It is brilliant looking for mushrooms at this time of year as they are at their most prolific, but some varieties can be seen all year round, I will be keeping my eyes open for some purple ones though.
When I used to work with trees I always enjoyed finding any kind of fungus on them. Never ever a purple one though! Cheers!!
I think we are like fungus only more mobile and we internalised our digestion, where fungus have an external stomach. I agree with your idea that mushrooms are the great orchestrator of live. They select bacteria based on the needs of the symbiont and deselect pathogens. They are totally amazing
External stomachs, how interesting! I'm keen to dive more into the world of fungi, seems absolutely essential to ecosystem restoration.
@@LeaveCurious for sure it is. We use microbial inoculations which include higher levels of fungus for our citrus orchard 4:1 fungus to bacteria.
We create these microbial treatments using simple things, potatoes, seawater and soil taken from the very broadleaf type trees you featured while looking for the purple D.
You can find out how to do this by looking up JADAM JMS
As an astrobiologist, I'm obsessed by fungi!
Awesome!
Looking forward to next year's video.
I hope you enjoyed the liberty caps you found.
Great video! And if it helps at all 2021 I found loads of amethyst deceivers in South London where I live but found nothing in the same patches 2022. I'm still very much a beginner when it comes to mushroom identification etc but I'm wondering if the really dry hot weather scuppered things
I find the mycelial network absolutely fascinating. I’m gradually working my way through Paul Stamets books which are amazing. He’s fantastic.
Not to kick you while you're down, but I actually found one on my hike yesterday! It is very purple, not easily missed.
Hey if you find it, I'm happy for you.... :)
I loved seeing the old forest in this video ^^ and better luck next time for the Amethyst Deceiver 💜
Thank you, i hope i get it next year!
Really enjoyed watching this video, I collect edible mushrooms in the Forest near my home, I have stumbled on two area where the Amethyst Deceiver grows, now I realise how lucky I am
Ah that’s awesome, I would never forage to eat and unless I had someone experienced with me. There are just sooo many mushrooms!! Just a vast kingdom of life. Cheers!
@@LeaveCurious
There are only about about 5 to species I know are edible around here, each of the with no dubious look-alikes, I usually take only two of these and if I happen to be where the amethyst deceivers and I need to fill out the pan I take them.
In the first location I discovered them there is a brown, very similar looking specie, this one I leave alone.
The amethyst deceiver is one of only purple mushrooms around here, the other two are not edible and almost not edible, the latter apparently slowing your heart rate, something I would not like test what dosis woulg be between medically beneficial and heart stoppage.
If you ever happen to visit Lower saxony in Germany, drop me a message, I would gladly show where my deceiver locals are.
Thank you Werner I would love to visit some day!
Not sure if you found a deceiver, maybe a washed out one. One of the key characteristics of deceivers is really wide gill spacing. I didn't think I saw that in the ones you picked up. You found loads of cool stuff though. The cauliflower fungus you found is one of the best edibles in the UK, very highly sought after and somewhat rare. starting at 07:36 you had a beefsteak fungus a group of armailaria (honey fungus) a very cool, and also quite rare deer shield and then the cauliflower.
Great video I am not good at identifying fungi but think that was a primark jumper you found 😆
Amazing video Rob!
Cheers Tom!!
In the forest next to where I live Amethyst Deceiver grows everywhere. You could come back with a lorry load. A note of caution though. In medieval times it was used as a laxative and can be a very effective laxative. It had no effect on me really but my wife and daughter where on the loo all day. It does have one or two lookalikes and although it's very distinctive with a bit of weather and rain when they're a bit washed out they can look very similar. Mushrooms have a mind of their own though. Last year they were everywhere by the end of August and this year it was the second week of November. They're still coming out now in early December.
They "older Amethyst Deceiver" looked like the Lilac Fibre cap
Ahhh I see, someone else said that. At least it wasn’t actually the deceiver, thank you!
As an amateur forager, I relate so hard.
Hahah ahh it’s all about the thrill of the hunt.
@@LeaveCurious btw, next time you might want to try iNaturalist. You can search for sightings of a particular species on a map, and you can also post anything you find and ask for help IDing them.
I've found amanita muscaria twice, and both times I started by going on the website and looking for previous sightings in my area.
@@themistocles1991 thats actually really cool, ill keep that in mind next time i head out, thank you Willow
Brilliant channel, so much I didn't know about wild UK! Would love to see a slightly better camera as all of your camera work is beautifully shot and assembled just the overall quality isn't up to scratch with your work, being 1080p max.
If you see 1080p from a 4k 60fps camera it's framerate is usually 240 or more so gives a much crisper, less noisy, less fuzzy, less out of focus image at lower resolutions
hopefully when this channel grows so shall your equipment :)
Oh yeah I have my eye on a few cameras! Thank you :)
You found many beautiful mushrooms along the way and had a nice hike at least! Hopefully next time? Maybe partner with a mycologist for finding it!
It was a lovely couple of days in the woods, I can never complain about that! You're spot on, any mycologists hit me up!
Is there an update on the EMF inoculated saplings?
I found one last week in Cornwall in an ancient bog garden at Eden project
you are funny being obsessed with finding purple mushrooms! i love your vibe!
i will find them...
I don't think the maze-solving slime molds are fungi. They get lumped in all the time in videos about fungi because they are so cool and have the word "mold" in their names.
Hmmm I'm looking into this now actually, I've heard numerous say they're fungus, but it seems like they're close, but not true fungi. Still amazing nonetheless though
Guys please don't just go around touching wild mushrooms. There are a lot of dangerous ones out there!
Yes there are many dangerous ones. Never forage if you don’t know what you’re looking for!
is slime mold even a type of fungi?
I bet you don't know that mushrooms can even grow underwater or that mushrooms help trees communicate with on another and help the other trees to survive if one of them are dying plus they have been known to help push cancer back .mushrooms can also taste like some candies. even stop salt in some places that are deserts.
This video reminds me, I have to check out the field next to our house to see if the Devil’s Fingers fungus (aka Octopus Stinkhorn) are up. Very weird, very cool.
Oo now they're be great to and look for on halloween. Very spooky
Wow…excellent video 🤩😍👍
Genius content! Thanks so much!
Tripping is not really bad but find a good mycologist Who will teach you the right things you need to know
Now that's an old calendar 📅
why do people get creeped out by fungus? there are a few reasons 'deathcap, destroying angels' for the mushrooms fear and 'cordyceps' for the just plain creepy factor
I think they're cool, sometimes a bit creepy, but mostly cool haha
Good luck finding purple in the Spring
Oh did I say that?? It’s gotta be really early autumn hasn’t it?
I think I found one before that was small and slightly purple, I wasn’t sure what it was.
I think I see a little purple mushroom next to the one you picked up at 6:52
Great video
Thank you very much Shawn!!
Ive seen Atomic shrimp's channel foraging these mushrooms on the ground with ease and you're here travelling places trying to find it and having a mental breakdown. Fate is really cruel
You mean "sapling mortality?"
I wouldn't have thought the 'morality' of sapling was at any point being brought into question... perhaps they're "branching out?"
You never wear shorts in the bush, unless you’re a little crazy..
some gloves and even a cloth mask also maybe
Sorry that it evaded you, but glad to see fungi getting some press!
Always next year, of course, they're massively underappreciated
Have you thought about why people use the name of Jesus who was called “Christ” by God as an expletive?
Indeed, those who give thought to their ways will understand them if they give thought to their ways with a loving and humble heart.
I love your work, Rob and I am very thankful to know that someone in the UK is working to restore that precious land to its former glory. Keep it up, sir.
Have you heard of Paul Stamets? He is a fantastic mycologist who said the same thing as you about fungus, how it is the bedrock of all life on the planet and if we are careful to protect it and to understand it as we use it for our well being, the planet can be preserved from the path of destruction that it is indubitably on.
Peace to you, brother.
None of the mushrooms I saw were amethysts
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Just started oyster mushrooms . Let's see how it goes .
Ah cool!
You don't need an older forest you need a healthy forest and you need a forest after some really substantial rains Fungi networks Send a pruding bodies After they receive enough moisture the conditions are favorable for them To spore. which means there's gonna be strong winds there's gonna be moisture on the ground for these things to germinate. And usually that's in the autumn Sometimes in the spring depending on the species But it's never in the fall and it's not and it's never in the summer and it's never in the winter Obviously summer's too dry unless you like get a super moist environment like a rainforest Like the west coast of Ireland tampered rainforest Or, those Seasons where it's biked in there and humid Such as spring and fall.
Fungi = plural. Singular = Fungus
You need to check out a channel called Atomic Shrimp One of the things he does is mushroom hunting and he keeps coming across Amethyst Deceivers and various different places around southern England and the Midlands where he used to live now he lives in southern England Southwestern England like in Devon I think so You gonna have to go through a lot of videos on mushroom picking to see if you can find them But they do exist and he has seen them and he doesn't pick them because they are deadly it's not something you want to eat so I wish you luck on your quest. and rule number one when you go into the woods always cover up all skin areas on your legs and arms because there's brambles there's nettles there's all sorts of nasty stuff out there that are going to bite you sting you or irritate you. sticking metal.
I have seen amethyst deceivers in Denmark and in Switzerland
Maybe not the best way to collect mushrooms.
I was told you need to cut with a proper knive at the base.
Here we can see you pick them and it damage the mycélium beneath..
Slime molds are not funghi (you show it as example in the beginning)
Penicillin is not a fungus. And fungi is the plural or collective noun ;)
Nah, the one you found was Mycena pelianthina. Greyish hat and stem with black gill edge and smells like radish. Better luck next time.
they lead me to you late
Great video but (sorry to be such a pedant) it’s a bit grating that you use the word ‘fungi’ as a singular rather than plural.
Good eater the deceiver.
Really good year for them last year
animals are mushrooms thats what I heard
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Hey Torstein bud!!
@@LeaveCurious 💕
I just picked a bunch of amathyst deceivers!
If you want to find amathyst deceivers, you should look for boletes.
And if you want to find boletes you should look for deceivers.
Its the law.
I’ll remember that one!
.. or Arrive informed... :P
Mushrooms are NOT the secret to rewilding because if they were, your title would read, "Mushrooms are the secret to rewilding Britain.
This is classic Betteridge's Law of Headlines at work.
Thanks for giving the answer away in the title. Cheers. :)
I’ve eaten them there tasty
Psilocybin containing mushrooms save my life. The drastically reduced my benzodiazepine withdrawal allowing me to quite illicit pill addiction after three years of heavy daily use before it would had became medically dangerous to quit
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Good video but it's a shame you picked them and then threw them over your shoulder. Better to put them back in the ground so it could continue growing.
Did you just list taking psychedelic drugs as a good thing? No, no, no.
Hey Rob, guess what, the Bucks Fungus Group found your little friend on their survey of our humble common this year! www.bucksfungusgroup.org.uk/Documents/2022/Report%20on%20Naphill%20Common%2016.10.2022.pdf
Ahhhh awesome :) i actually found it the other day lol but it had lost its colour