Winter Mushroom Hunting: Get your Hedgehogs!
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- Опубліковано 19 лис 2024
- This is another foraging video brought to you by KPMS vice president and creator of Mushroom Wonderland, Aaron Hilliard.
We take a look at several wild mushrooms that you can find growing in the winter months here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest of the USA. I can not say as to whether they may or may not be growing in your neck of the woods, as the world is a big place and who knows where you are, haha.
The main highlight of this video in my opinion has got to be a beautiful patch of Hydnum oregonense or maybe they are Hydnum umbilicatum, older field guides and generic European taxonomy would probably call them Hydnum repandum. These is a good chance that these are none of the above and could perhaps be a rare or un-described species, as these "hedgehog mushrooms" have not been studied too well here in the Pnw.
Regardless, it has got to be one of my favorite wild edibles because of its meaty texture that hold up well to a good cooking, its sweet earthy flavor(earning it another common name-the 'Sweet tooth). This mushroom demands high prices at the market, and had virtually no look alikes, all mushrooms in the hydnum genus are edible and excellent.
We also look at some potentially dangerous Gyromitra influa, a toxic ascomycete growing here in the NW in winter on new construction sites and disturbed soil.
We also run across some Pleurotus Ostreatus, a cosmopolitan tree loving mushroom that is also a great and choice edible when fresh. Commonly known as the "Oyster Mushroom," these handsome saprotrophs deserve a welcome place at the dinner table.
Another mushroom we take a look at and collect is the "Winter Chanterelle," or Craterellus tubaeformis. A delicious woodland edible, a mycorrhizal conifer forest loving delight with a bright yellow base- earning it another common name, the "yellow-foot."
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Mush Love to you all!!
Aaron Hilliard
Mushroom Wonderland
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Nice find bro. Always leaning from your adventures so thanks from down south Louisiana
Love hedgehog mushrooms. We found a bunch over Thanksgiving along with a giant cauliflower mushroom. Love your vids!!!
Thank you!!🍄🤙
I appreciate the way you take time to go over all of the characteristics of the mushrooms you find and spend quite a bit of time on each one. When you found the Winter Chanterelles and thought another group was also the same but discovered they were not, it would have been good to compare the two mushrooms side by side so we could see the difference. We’re watching all of your videos and keeping a file of them. Learning them slowly but surely! For now we’re just collecting samples on our excursions to identify before we start indulging. We want to be positive! Thanks again, great video!
A great point!!
I'm from Iran and my favoured mushrooms are agaricus bitorquis and oyster mushroom.
I am in France on the Westcoast in the Limousin region and I like looking at your videos because it seems our climate is not so different since we find the same mushrooms at about the same time of year.
I also love the Hedgehog mushroom (just learned the name, :=)) that we call Sheep's Foot in France ; according to where they grow I find them either whitish or orange...
The large white russulus with a short foot is everywhere in my woods.
And this year, I had Chanterelles every day... I used to "despise"them but they are now among my favoriteS.
And I agree with you, they seem to be easier on our liver and stomach than other mushrooms. My favorite dish with them is a simple omelette that they "reveal" marvellously.
Thanks for your knowledge and sharing,
Pascale
Awesome, thank you for watching and for your comment. Someday I would love to go to france. It is awesome to learn about the myco-flora there!! Mush-love from the other side of the world 🍄🤙
Dying to drive up from PDX to check out the Puget Sound area. Future shows I’d also love to see: preparing/cleaning different types of mushrooms. Thanks for the vids! 🍄🍄🍄
Yummy mushroom 🍄 soup 🍜
I'm from Whidbey Island. We have some amazing forests here with loads of mushrooms. I have found lots of turkey tail and chanterelles this season. Starting to find matsutakes. Hoping to find some hedgehogs soon. I'm a beginner forager and your videos have inspired me and helped me a ton. I am a naturopathic physician and cancer survivor so got in to mushrooms for their health benefits. I love eating mushrooms but being in the frsh air and foraging in our beautiful woodlands is healing to the body and the soul 😊❤
Great video Aaron! Love seeing these winter species with your descriptions of them. I was out yesterday in the Eugene, Oregon area and got a good harvest of hedgehogs and yellowfoot mushrooms. Thank you!
Nice! We are in the area, Fun to search here, Ever have any bigfoot experiences around here - they are as common as the mushrooms! - give me a shout.
Where have you been going, if you don't mind me asking? I've been walking the Ridgeline trail every few weeks but I never seem to find anything more interesting than black elfin saddles and shaggy parasols.
@@kpturn42 I love the Ridgeline trail but not for mushroom foraging. Have to get out to the foothills of the Cascades in the Willamette National Forest. Just go out and explore and pay attention to the tree types and the ground cover. Look for mossy areas.
Thanks for all the great videos. Gunner is my favorite! He's not annoying at all... he's adorable. I just bought a house in Gold Bar up highway 2... I'm looking forward to discovering what wild edibles are up here. Keep up the great content and give Gunner big belly rubs from another dog lover. 🐕 😄👍
The way you hype up the hedgehogs makes me so curious to try them! Also, I'm going to have to try the winter chanterelles. I find them all the time and keep hearing amazing things about them. And finally, I'm looking forward to the next KPMS meeting! :D
Awesome! See ya there. They are seriously like my favorite wild edible I think. I don't know there's quite a few of them. They're so sweet, and kind of meaty and savory. Great vehicles for butter and salt and pepper. They've got a great consistency that holds up with cooking. Definitely exciting when I find some of those!
Hedgehogs over steak is all time. Top 2 in my book. Black trumpets and Hedgehogs!!!
Hello lovely video i found rosehip and withes butter yesterday,
today i have nice "jam" and yellow feaces
Been a while since I’ve been out. You’re motivating me to go looking even though it’s been so cold and snowy the last week. Look forward to hearing your talk tomorrow night. Cheers!
Nice work Aaron. Watching from Galiano Island Canada love what your doing will be sharing your site with my shrooming buddies
Awesome thank you!
Thanks! I like the voice in the into, Welcome to Mushroom Wonderland. Very catchy.
I really love wild mushrooms, specially matsutake! Your video gave me a lot of information, really appreciate~~~🥰👍🤗
There is nothing like having your dog with you, I here in south east Pennsylvania, fairly new mushroom hunting. Thanks for the info I learn on your channel, Happy Hunting.
Another great video, Aaron. I have gained incredibly valuable knowledge from every one of your videos. Thanks for being such a great educator to us here in the PNW. *Whatcom County*
We love your videos! We learn sooo much and have applied all of your tips for successful and fun family foraging. We were hoping to explore the peninsula for my birthday (12/13) and look for hedgehogs but I'm guessing the upcoming cold weather will do them in? Guidance on that? Oh well, maybe just some exploration hiking with the pups. 🥰
Hedgehogs are very resilient when it comes to cold weather, which is surprising considering how fragile they are. They can freeze solid and be fine once the weather warms up and they have a chance to thaw out. If they're covered by snow for any length of time they don't do very well, and it can also break them apart. Take note of the vegetation in the video. It's been my experience Hedgehogs grow in a mix of huckleberry and salal, and there often Rhododendrons mixed in. Usually there are few if any sword ferns.
Thank you for another great video!
I’m from Northeast and I have found several hedgehogs and they are so good. Nice video on these mushrooms.
My Chocolate Lab barks whenever he hears Gunner shake his head (not sure if it's the collar or what? : )
Great videos. Keep it up. I love the winter mushroom content
Haha that's awesome!! Thanks for watching 🤙🍄
I've been out a couple times in the last week, I live in Southern Ontario, finding a few wood blewits here and there still, a bunch of Enoki and a couple of winter oysters. Gonna go into mushroom withdrawal soon lol. It has been a great winter for wood blewits here, as it had been so mild until recently. Actually, great season here all together! Happy hunting and keep those awesome videos coming!
Awesome, that's cool to know what it's doing up there! Pretty neat wherever you go you can find some mushrooms to eat! 🍄🤙
My favorites are Chicken of the Woods, lions mane. Thanks for all the knowledge. Hopefully I'll find more and more in the future.
Cheers from Philly!
Great find! I, too, had hedgehogs this morning on my toast here in upstate SC but they were not near as large or worm free! :)
Super delicious fungi MAN you know!!!! Thanks for share awesome channel my friend
🍄🤙 thanks!
Hedgehog mushrooms are my favorite
Thanks for pumping out all these videos!
Great vid! Thanks!
Theyre so so good second only to the morel in my opinion.Nice flush you got there.In California they have a definite relationship with tan oaks.That tree brings it on.
Great videos thanks!
Stumbled across some Hydnum in NC a few weeks ago, it’s my new favorite edible mushroom!
Another super helpful video. We really appreciate all your guidance! Thank you from Victoria, BC👍
Good to know there aren't any dangerous Hydnum look a likes.
They are delicious ;)
Monterey Bay area here🙏 thank you for the awesome videos.
Found my first King bolete this week🎉
They’re all over the Olympic peninsula too
Vaancouver Wa. I go in for Chanterelles because its the only one I know for certain Oh and petrified wood is what gets me into the forests. But ya take me on one of your trips sometime ill expand my foraging knowledge. Another informative and educational vid Aaron. Thank you.
Thanks so much.
Almost the same mushrooms types we found here in Norway 🇳🇴 and I'm picking up those as well! 😍
I live in western Washington and enjoy a good mushroom hunt 🤗 appreciate your videos
Thank you🍄🙏🤙
I love that rubber squeeze when you cut a mushroom!
I find lots of chanterelles here in Florida in late summer. Tons of craterellus too. Both very golden here. Great edibles.
Good video!
From south central Pennsylvania, and my favorite mushroom is a tie between Chicken of the Woods and giant puffball.
A giant puffball is bucket list stuff to me! We don't have them around here. Not on this side of the Cascade divide of Washington anyhow. 🤙🍄
jealousy abounds as I impatiently wait for the 12+ inches of snow to melt in my neck of the woods! Thanks for another informative video.
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing.
Great video, as always! I've been waiting for the day where I'm able to find some hedgehogs and/or winter chanterelles! Any tips for what to look for in the environment?
I’ve found luck in holes and sides of hills. Always have trees as a host.
I’ve found luck in holes and sides of hills. Always have trees as a host.
Great knowledge. Thanks for sharing
Glad it was helpful!
Found my first ever Hedgehog on Saturday in Banner Forest! It was so tiny but such a cool find for me! Do you do much foraging in Port Orchard?
Awesome! Yes I do. Banner is one of my favorite places..shhhh...it's a secret!! Haha
Awesome, i just started with learning about mushrooms, love your channel.
I started a few years ago with Yellow Morel. Then discovered Chicken of the Woods, Horse Hoof, Shaggy Mane and Chaga.
Awesome! Some of my favorites 🍄💯🤙
Another great video! My favorite mushrooms are grifola frondosa and Things oyster! N.West Pa🍄💚
Awesome, thanks for the comment! And thanks for watching. 🍄🍄
Another great video Aaron! Thanks again! I sent you a DM about potential guided walks in the future. What do you think?
My go to area is Gifford Pinchot but I feel like all the mushrooms have been snowed out. Do I need to drive further north and close to the coast to find any mushrooms? Not many mushrooms to be found in a foot of snow :(
Yeah you're definitely not going to find anything in the snow. Closer to sea level is your best bet. But the pickings are getting slim!
i think your slimy dark oysters are Late Oyster (Sarcomyxa serotina) -- still edible, but not as great in texture or flavor as regular oysters.
love your channel! keep up the great work
We definitely get those but I dont think thats what these were. The S. serotina is usually more green-tinged and smaller. But thanks!!
You're so lucky!! We've been looking all over for hedgehogs over here in WV to no avail. Guess they just don't like the Appalachians!
Right on 👍
Gunner just wants to keep walking Dad 🤣
He don't know where he's going but he sure is in a hurry to get there! 🤣
I’m so new to it all. I’ve started growing Lions Mane but I don’t quite have it down yet. Needless to say I lack the confidence. I’ll get there though.
Awesome, keep at it. Experience is everything, and experience comes with time and repetition.
Plastic bags... pffsst! I use them all the time. My harvest doesn't stay in them long enough to make a rats-a** bit of difference and lined with a piece of paper towel on the bottom will take care of any "issues".
Do hedgehogs have any toxic lookalikes?
No they do not. Sarcodon is another genus that have teeth, but they're typically black. Also Hydnellum, like the bleeding tooth fungi, but none of them are toxic either, and the sarcodon are incredibly unpalatable, so you wouldn't eat enough to get sick because they are terrible. Also, if you confused either of those with a hedgehog you really would need to brush up on mushroom ID 101 😂🍄🙏🤙
@@mushroomwonderland1 Awesome. Thank you! Do we have any deadly mushrooms in the PNW?
@@futures003 Yes there there are deadly mushrooms here in the Pnw. Please don't go picking and eating mushrooms by yourself. I would highly suggest joining one of the local mycology societies. Before covid hit they would go on a lot of trails and teach people which mushrooms you can eat. Now that has mostly stopped due to covid. But they still do a lot of online workshops that are Interactive
I found a pretty big yellow capped, like a dome mushroom with a white steam couple weeks ago. I tried to look it up but couldn’t find anything like it.
Gonna need a little more description than that! 😂💖
Russulaceae mushrooms just need to be marinaded, that's one of the best way to cook them and eat! They turn out to be crunchy and delicious, that's why we love them in Easter Europe
Cooked or raw? Please advise for edibles?
Definitely cooked. All mushrooms should be cooked, many many will give you a very bad upset stomach and indigestion if you do not cook them to break down the lignin on the cell wall of the mushroom. You can also derive no nutritional value until that lignin is broke down with heat. Even grocery store button mushrooms should be cooked despite how grandma put them in the salad raw 😂🍄🤙
Wow theyre much earlier in central europe, i collected them in september/october here. Idk about the American ones but i usually pick the european ones younger than the ones in this vid. The length of the spikes (?) shows how old they are, i love the really fresh ones but probably wouldnt have eaten some you showed in the vid, thats personal preference tho.
Yeah these species tend to be a bit later season. I usually find them after most mushrooms have finished fruiting.
When you find a bumper crop, like the 20# of Winter Chanterelles you mentioned, do you preserve them? If so, How?
That time we actually ate and gave them away to friends. My mother made a whole bunch of canned soup with them. I have a cupboard full of dried mushrooms too. But I never like them reconstituted as well as fresh.
Best Channel
Love the videos! Thanks for sharing. I’ve seen other people saying that it’s a good idea to scrape off the teeth of a hedgehog while you’re still in the woods. Thoughts?
It can be useful, keeps your food from looking a bit messy, also could potentially leave more spores behind.
Is there anything we should be looking for with regards to habitat to find hedgehogs? (Other than conifers).
I found plenty at higher elevations back in September/October, but only rarely have I come across them this time of year.
Seems to me they do prefer a little bit higher of elevations, seems like they also like a little more of an open habitat with a higher canopy where more filtered sunlight is allowed to get through. I often find chanetrelle's in more densely brushed Forest, where hedgehogs seem to be in a little bit more arid of a forest.
Here in my country sweepers and dustmans smash all the oyster mushrooms and in the wild sheeps and goats are eaten that
Aaron, why don't you do a monthly recipe on maybe just one mushroom like the candy cap mushrooms you did I think it was last month?
Because I'm busy with my construction career and family, and it's hard to find the time, even though I cook all the time every night, I used to cook in restaurants in my 20s. It's just setting up all the cameras and all the editing. It's just a lot of work. Definitely something I want to incorporate into the channel though.
Was born raised in Washington . I liked the video , just go a little slower on the scanning your camera , Thanks
Are we sure those aren't
hydnum umbilicatum, or bellybutton hedgehogs. They are smaller than hydnum oregonese.
Not exactly sure. That is a consideration. There's been quite a few different guesses at it but none of them really line up. My friend Alan Rockefeller suggested that I have them sequenced because they could be a potentially new species. They are definitely umbilicate! But seem much larger than H. Umbilicatum. I recently met a different mycologist from Olympia who wants to do a video with me on DNA sequencing, and this mushroom was suggested to bring down to the lab. So I have some dried to take to him. I'll report back here if I can remember! 🤙🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 I'd be interested to know, as I find around that size over here in capitol forest.
btw, they sprout AFTER the chanterelles and at the roughly same spots :) (extends your shroomin` activities)
are the hedgehogs a good mushroom to dehydrate? thanks for the information, I'm learning a lot from your videos stay safe
I think so, but I have never dried them because I rarely find enough to have any left-overs. They stay good in a paper bag in the fridge for weeks!
how do i find active mushrooms in bosnia ?
It looks like there are active species that grow there, P. serbica for example. You've got a research their habitat, and you can start with the knowledge that they are a saprotrophic mushroom, meaning they will be growing on dead or decaying matter, likely dead wood or wood chips. Look for blue bruising, purple brown spore print, removable gelatinous pellicle on top of the cap. If you have all three of those identifiers chances are you've got an active species.
@@mushroomwonderland1 thank you very much, i've been researching how to recognize active shrooms like liberty caps, etc, but it seems that those can't be found where I'm at so I'll have to settle for the few species growing around here .. If there's a site where i can order em dried i'd really appreciate it, been trying to find one but im not sure which one's i can trust .. Either way, thank you !! Much Love !
Question I heard that all mushrooms that grow on trees are safe to eat true or false?
That is not true, in fact probably the most deadly native mushroom to the Pacific Northwest grows on dead trees, the funeral Bell or Galerina marginata. But that is a dead and decomposing tree. Which most mushrooms are after anyways. But there doesn't seem to be any real tried and true fast rule about edible mushrooms versus poisonous mushrooms. You just have to find out each Mushroom on a Case by case basis.
Can you dehydrate all these mushrooms
🙏🏻💞
Dried hedgehogs no bueno.
Saute and freeze or eat them all !!!
Just noticed UA-cam UNSUBSCRIBED ME from your channel... this happened to another mycology channel I sub to about a week or two ago. UA-cam wants to cancel mushrooms...
What the heck that's super weird. I've never heard anything like that. Well I'm glad you're back on board, haha! I'm going to have to look into why people get unsubscribed. If they really wanted to get rid of mushrooms they could just shut down my channel. I rarely talk about hallucinogenic mushrooms, and that would be the only reason honey I could think they would hate on mushrooms. 🤷 Mush-love!!🍄
@@mushroomwonderland1 yeah unfortunately it doesn't matter if it's about cultivating oyster mushrooms or other edibles, many of the vids are being flagged as "dangerous drug content". I'm really surprised your vids with psilocybes are still up, as far as I know, even if it's harm reduction.
1st time ever heard of this mushroom! I've been following for a long time now!
Have you ever hunted mushrooms in the spokane/ID border area?
If you haven't, & have time, please do! If not, that's fine. We have a good amount of mushrooms popping when the weather is right. I do pest control all over the surrounding areas of spokane & always have my eyes peeled for mushrooms, antlers & wildlife.