Wild Mushroom Walk; Identifying wild mushrooms: Candy caps, cats tongue, laccaria, russula, dyers
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2025
- In this video Aaron Hilliard of Mushroom Wonderland, and board member of Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society takes a walk in the forest in late November in Washington state to see what mushrooms are growing. This is a mainly coniferous forest in western Washington near the Puget Sound at about 300 ft asl. I come across Laccaria laccata and show the difference between them and the photogenic relative Laccaria amethysteo-occidentalis. Then I come across a beautiful patch of Lactarius rubidus, the ever popular and sought after 'Candy Cap,' a milky latex secreting late fall mushroom that takes on the smell and taste of pungent molasses candy or maple syrup. A great addition to sweet dishes around the holidays. Then I come across 3 different types of Russula mushrooms, Russula brevipies, Russula xerampelina (aka the Shrimp Russula), and an unknown but acrid and likely toxic species of Russula. We also come across a Dyers Polypore (Phaeolus schweinitzii) and talk about dyeing fabric with mushrooms. A fun but small look at what is going on in the woods around here right now.
I will continue to upload foraging and ID videos through the cold days of winter, after these mushrooms will have likely stopped growing for the winter, but it is too difficult to stay on top of them as they grow in real time. Hope you stay tuned, hit that subscribe button and notification bell to see when the next video comes out. I am currently trying to keep it at a new video once a week, maybe 5 days. Thank you all, much love, good vibes to you all!
Always a good day when Aaron uploads
Thank you for watching! I love comments like that 🍄🍄🍄
Was hoping to hear a bit more on the candycap.Seems like those have some look alikes
Out there and that's kept me from taking those.Great videos I'm hooked!!
Winter has arrived here in southern Ontario Canada so mushrooms are done for the year. So nice to see you’re still finding them in the PNW. And you got a drone!
Indeed, Winter has arrived here in Southern Ontario Canada (where I am also located). But I'm hopeful! It just rained all day today and temperature has been mild. I got some wishful thinking/hopes that mushroom season isn't entirely over!! ;)
Yeah the mushrooms are slowing down here, but there's still a few species out there. And some microhabitats where you can find chanterelles still I'm sure.
Yeah I've had the drone for quite a while, I've had several over the years, just trying to up the production value a little bit. Experimenting with different things in these videos. Thanks for watching! 🍄
Another great one! Thanks for all your insight, Aaron!
I'm fairly "new" to mushroom foraging (used to forage with the grandparents and family when I was little but that was so long ago that I had forgotten everything but morels and chanterelles), and I have learned so much from your videos. I have been foraging in earnest for months now, using books, and an app on my phone (which is essentially useless). I'm so much better at identifying now than I was but watching your videos, I'm like: "I saw that one!" or "I remember that one!" helps immensely with identifying. My daughter and I foraged yesterday and though we didn't find an abundance of edibles, we did find some lovely specimens I'd remembered from your videos... shrimp russulas and a couple of zeller boletes! We were both walking around the forest feeling pretty good about ourselves! Thank you for your channel!
You’ve stumbled onto a great channel to further your mushy knowledge as Aaron is an excellent teacher ✌️💞🍄
A couple years ago I found a completely purple mushroom in Mexico it was such a beautiful find along with hundreds of other mushroom including morels. Really got me excited about mushrooms. Now I'm back in Idaho and going hunting today. Keep up the great work bro Really enjoy your videos
Awesome! There's some good mushrooms out in Idaho. Thanks for watching the channel! 🍄
Love the new shots of you continuing walking or walking towards the camera. You took your editing quality to the next level, man. Good work!
Looking forward to more videos. Love the content and production.
Awesome, I'll keep doing them just for you! 👍🍄
Enjoyed this Aaron. It is great to see the ones I have not seen. You give great descriptions.
Love your channel. I live is western WA also. I was in the forest last weekend and I think I left a whole bunch of candy caps behind.
Thanks for watching, they're still out there! I found a ton today. They're growing everywhere this year, more than usual it seems to me. Go back and check them out! 🍄
This channel is amazing. Ty Aaron for the awesome videos. We’re on the other side of the sound from you and avid mushroom hunters. The cooking videos are my favorites but I’m also a food guy Lol. Glad I found this channel.
Awesome! Glad you're watching. My plan is to put a lot more cooking in the videos in the future. It's just a lot of work! But I really want to bring that element into it. Maybe outdoor camp-cook all the mushrooms. 🤷😋
This has been the type of vid info on mushrooms I have been looking for thanks I will check out your other vids and have subbed..
Thank you! 🍄 Welcome aboard.
Quick, thorough descriptions!
I really dig your videos.
Thank you, I'll keep making them! 🍄
Thanks so much for the great videos
Thanks for watching the channel! 🍄
love the music keep kickin out these videos
I get mixed reviews about the music that I use in my videos, but I do think it adds some emotion and fun to it. Thanks for watching! 🍄
Great, relaxing video. Thanks!
Thanks so much for sharing.
Thank you for watching!
Great video!! I just made my very first homemade maple syrup using candy caps for flavoring. It turned out better than any store bought or even real maple syrup I’ve ever had. By some miracle, candy caps grow on our property and so we have harvested two years in a row in late December so now, the smell of candy caps remind me of Christmas, lol. You’re right, there is NO mistaking the very strong scent of maple/molasses when dried! Our whole house smells amazing! This was also the first mushroom I ever found that got me hooked on mushrooms. What a way to start off, eh? 😂 Love life on the peninsula 💚🌲🏠
Very cool, we cooked an acorn squash with candy caps grated on top butter and a light dusting a brown sugar and a pinch of salt. It was amazing! I love the idea of just making syrup. How do you do it? Just dissolve the mushrooms into simple syrup?
@@mushroomwonderland1 I found a syrup recipe online and followed that. While it was boiling, I dropped 10-15 whole mushrooms into the mixture. Strained them out into a really cool bottle that has been sitting on a shelf for years that just looks like it was made for syrup! Lol. It was easy peasy!
1 cup granulated sugar
2 cups dark brown sugar (1 cup if you want a thinner syrup)
1 cup of water
Bring to a boil.
Add mushrooms and any other flavoring (This is where the online recipe called for 1 tsp of “maple flavoring”, similar to vanilla extract except, maple.) I added the mushrooms and 1tsp of vanilla extract just for the heck of it and about a Tablespoon of butter, for butter flavored syrup (😱 I know!) Boil five minutes, stirring frequently, slowly, over medium heat. Let cool about 5-10 minutes because that $hit is going to be lava. Strain into clean, dry, WELL-LIDDED, glass container. Is good for two months in the refrigerator. It is hands down THE best syrup I’ve ever had. It’s SO easy. I hope this helps!!! Would love to hear if you make some!!! Happy holidays and cheers! 🥂🍀 Happy to answer any other questions! 🥂
@@aflockofbeagles8219 that is awesome, thank you for sharing!
@@mushroomwonderland1 no worries!🥂
I would love to hear if you're taking any mushroom suppliments. If so, which ones and which ones might you suggest. I know its different than your typical foraging video but I think it would be interesting and provide some content in the dead of winter.
Just discovered you a month ago, Aaron. Really enjoying your videos. You have a good mix of geeky facts tied in with layman's terminology or remind us with definitions (e.g. margin = edges along the mushroom cap); really helpful for us semi-novice mushroom foragers. You covered a good amount of mushrooms I've encountered on my random hikes & walks around the city around Ontario & Quebec in Canada. Like your style.
I just picked fresh chanterelles a few days ago. Love mushrooms!
Yeah I found some on Monday. Most were too far along but I took a few home with me. I’m new to this so I’m exited that I now know where to find them. Next season I’m going to be all over it as soon as fall comes.
Thanks for sharing your knowledge
Thanks for the new vid. Nice to see the id of the candy caps. I’ve been trying to find them and keep getting the lookalikes. One of these days I’ll find some. I did get lucky and found my first matsutake! That was awesome and also found some leccinum ponderosum. Both were super tasty.
Thanks for the great info. Keep it coming
Awesome! Yeah there are a lot of candy cops out right now. You will find them. Thanks for watching the channel! 🍄
love the videos, thanks
I want to go! Heavy flooding and snow here already at Mt Baker has made foraging not so great.
Stop spamming please! I don’t want your fucking magic mushrooms!
I found one these in December it was almost the slice of my hand but had a lot of damage. But still such a unique mushroom
Since you do such a great job making these videos, I'd be pumped if you added the chapter element for future referencing. Just a thought. Oh yeah, Black Friday 😁
One of my videos has chapters, but I didn't do it. It was like UA-cam did it on their own. Pretty cool though! I wish it would do this on each video.
Awesome Is there a defining marker for a real candy cap.
The scent when dried is the absolute proof. If you dry some that look similar and the have no odor, no harm no foul🍄
Thanks
Thank you
No such thing as a boring mushroom to me ☺️🍄🍄🍄
This is great content. Could save peoples lives. You need to be educated when foraging for boomers. Thank you
The wonderful ecosystem of fungi
It is amazing ❤️🍄
Can you please do an a documentary about the life of fungi the ecosystem beneath our feet not about magic mushroom just a fascination of evolution of mushrooms on spacing is not a plant is not an animal it’s fungi
@@gaylecheung3087 there are only two or three videos out of all of my videos that talk about magic mushrooms. The rest are all about the magic of wild mushrooms 🍄 check out the rest of the channel!
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I just put my cinnamon sugar cat tongue gummies in the dehydrator
Awesome, let me know how they turned out!
They turned out great! I normally do the cinnamon sugar combo so I eat them before my hikes....cinnamon is a natural anti-inflammatory supplement so win win
Enjoying those stunzii?
Been many years since I have ingested any, I have a family, kids, and responsibilities and stuff. Sounds like a little much to me right now but I enjoy finding them and studying them.🍄
Honestly, I figured you weren't ingesting them. Lol I'm from MI and been Identifying just for furthering my own knowledge of all the Funghi around. Even if it's not species specific. I never get tired of it. Can't wait to get into microscopy and sequencing in the future. Love the channel! 😁🍄
Entro very loud compared to the rest of the audio, never made it passed that
That's too bad, sorry about that. Not a professional editor. Trying to improve the quality of the videos. 🍄
Ramaria, not Ramiria.
do you have an Instagram?
Yes, mushroom.wonderland. Alan has one as well @alan_rockefeller. Mushroom Wonderland is fairly new, but trying to keep posting interesting content. 🍄