You need a TV show man. You are an amazing communicator and your love for the subject matter absolutely leaks through that smile constantly on your face. Well done brother.
I love that you don't shy away from taxonomy, botanical terms, or scientific information. Always super informative and fascinating. Keep it up, please.
Hey Adam! Just wanted to finally check in and say that I friggin adore you and your videos - don't think my rational mind can calculate properly for what a blessing it is to watch each and every one of your videos and to receive the infectious passion (and brilliance) you emanate about the natural world! Keep doing YOU, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Much love from Asheville :)
You can use it literally any way you use chicken. I often prepare it WITH chicken and there are times, especially as cubes, nuggets, or chicken fingers, where it's pretty hard to tell the two apart.
I found this mushroom last year while foraging on some dead tree, i almost mistook it as chicken of the woods but was confused because it was just a single shelf, it was in michigan on a hiking trail about 30 minutes from brighton
Another reason it might be critically endangered in Europe is that they manage their woodlands so intensively. If you look at videos made in European settings you don't see many downed trees or underbrush. Maybe the mushroom doesn't have enough habitat if they keep removing downed trees.
I came across one of these a month or so ago (truthfully, maybe longer, time is weird). I was wondering what it could be. It was so big, solid, steady. Very impressive to be near. Thanks Adam!
Anything you burn that creates uncombusted particles (smoke) is a great mosquito repellant. I prefer burning unseasoned cherry wood, because it's much more aromatic. 😁
When I was a little kid my dad used to give me cigarettes to puff on to keep the bugs away. Only when we went mushroom or seng hunting. Hippy parenting hahaha
Of course I sat through it all. I just found a bunch of chicken of the woods this year! Want to make sure! I done a video on mine so I need to double check and take down my video if it’s not Chicken of the woods! I really thought I was sure but you made me question myself. Thanks for what you do!!!
I found some big fungus growing like this here in Northwest Georgia. They are growing out from the bottom of some massive old growth oaks. Inside of them looks like stranded cork. Very dark color. But outside is basically white. Very hard fungus. Brought a small piece home and left it laying on the counter. Kept noticing dust around it each day. There was two worm like woodcutters that came out of it. Would really like to send you a chunk of it Adam.
Thanks Adam. We live a long way apart Adam, but we share many types of mushrooms. Your videos have been integral to me finding more edible species. Your attention to detail including the position of gills to the stem have been incredibly valuable. I have a five step process to identifying edible species and so far it has stood me in good stead. Is there somewhere I can share pictures with you? My dog and I search out a lot of them. I had almost given up on mushrooms around my area aside from Scotch Bonnets. This year has been perfect for mushrooms! I have found species I never dreamed grew here. Thanks for everything you do my young sir! You have done so much for me.
I just found this!! I wasn't sure if it was chicken of the woods. I'm so glad you make these videos!💗👏 I'm a huge fan!! Love you brother!! Keep up the amazing work you are doing!!
@Brainjock yeah man it's totally safe. If You go out picking random mushrooms and trying to identify later you're probably in a bad position, but if you're well familiar with a species and spot it and can positively identify it, then you're fine. Like he mentioned, chicken of the woods is easy to identify, and its closest look alike is edible. Musbrooms like that are a good place to start.
@Brainjock those who die are generally those who act in bravado instead of confidence. So long as you always give your mushroom the time and respect to carefully identify to the species level, you will have a great time. Try finding a mushroom club near you!
Thank you so much for this video, I just stumbled across this mushroom yesterday and as you said from a distance I thought it was chicken of the woods. So cool to find out what it is.
Very interesting video. I heard about this mushroom when I was starting to look for chicken of the wood, but I never knew much about it. It’s apparently very rare, even critically endangered, here in sweden. But it has a common name actually: ”saffransticka” - ”saffran” is referring to it’s colour being somewhat like saffron.
I love your videos. Having just discovered your channel I am really happy I have. You create some of the best and most educational content I have been able to find online, and I look forward to the next time you offer your class. We are also working on starting up a small outdoor mushroom grow on our farm in the back 4 acres of woods.
Just found, foraged, and cooked chicken of the woods twice this past week, for the first time, then I watched this video! Cool heads up, on the rare chance I find this. I'm heading to a cabin about an hour north of williamsport pa for a few days and definitely going to poke around the forest as we will be surrounded :) thanks for your videos Adam, great stuff!
I found this mushroom, growing on a fallen oak, right across from my cabin in Northern Michigan. I had no idea what it was, but I thought it was beautiful. I often dry the more colorful specimens to use in my miniature gardens. I was so happy to see this video, that helped me identify it!
I don't watch your videos to see if a mushroom is edible. I have no intention of going out into the woods and chowing down on a potentially poisonous fungus, lol. I watch your videos, because I like to learn things, and you are always so super excited about the subject!!!! Sad, that so many forms of Life on Earth are on the brink of extinction, glad you got to document the Not Chicken of the Woods mushroom.
I actually just found one of these in Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve in Pittsburgh! You should go check it out it was giant! I also got to observe the spore "smoke" as you were describing as well. I was very excited to find it given how cool it looked, and was even cooler now seeing this video after the fact and finding out how rare an experience that was!
Hi Adam, can you make a video showing us how to make tinctures or oil? I collected a pound of Turkey Tail the past two days and would love to use them to help me with my cancer treatments, thanks.
Cool, I do that with pot to get the oils but I put it all in a double boiler and burn off the alcohol, I see nobody does that for shrooms so I guess there’s not much oil in them. Had a great harvest today, drying them in the oven right now.
HAHAHA! The Swedish name on this one is 'Saffron mushroom'! 'Saffransticka' to the Swedes. "Ticka" is the Swedish, not Latin, name of the group of fungi, "mushroom" is "svamp" in Swedish. "Svamp" also means "sponge" 😂, but in the ability of soaking up water there is a resemblance.
Very informative Adam, as usual. Makes me want to head out into the woods mushroom hunting. Kind of reminds me of an overgrown Oyster mushroom, except for the color & thickness. I was once told by a Mycologist friend of mine "Don't eat any mushroom that you don't recognize, unless of course you have eaten one before & lived to tell about it"!
Hi Adam, Thank you so much for taking the time to produce these wonderfully informative videos. Would you consider tackling the thorny subject of rusula identification in the future please.
Awesome as usual Adam. I've found the other 2 you mentioned. And maybe someday I'll find this one. You are my 1st and foremost go too. Thank you for you're vast knowledge.
Do you know of any UA-camr that goes into the amount of details that you go into for southern Illinois? Absolutely love you're videos and the lessons you teach! Thank you!
Hi Adam! Another informative, interesting, and delightful video! I’ve come across this fungi only a couple of times here in the mountains of sw Virginia. I was fooled into thinking they were sulfur shelf from a distance, too. We have lots of oaks as well as some quite old chestnut logs. I’ve never seen any as large as those! Thanks for all your work and knowledge.
I have yet to forage a wild mushroom. I'm not confident enough in my identification skills, yet. I am almost sure I have seen this mushroom, it was so long ago, I think I was still living in Kentucky at the time. When you held it up at the end, something triggered a memory. I will watch for this one. I'm living in Virginia now, excited to find out what is growing in the woods here. Thank you so much Adam, you really are very good at teaching and explaining. I so enjoy the way you capture the beauty of your environment. Your enthusiasm seems boundless.
Thank you! This mushroom has fooled me in Mid Michigan and I just stared at it in confusion. Now to trek back out to the bog and do a potassium hydroxide test to be sure.
I would love for you to talk about Lions mane mushroom. It would be nice to learn about it from you. I have heard that it grows on hard wooded trees but which ones and at what season of the year Also does it grow in America I heard it does but I’ve never seen it anywhere.
amy schultz . Yes it does grow in America! I’ve found it, and ate it. And yes it is Good! Grows off of Beech trees. Believe it was in the Fall season. Yummy, yummy...
Yay! I got the Hapalopilus part, at least. It's so distinctly fuzzy and colorful, but the wrong color for H. nidulans. I've never seen the H. crocea in France, though it is here and considered rare, as in the US. Thanks to you and your friends for this closeup look.
@@LearnYourLand Thanks! I've been preparing the revised labels for our October mushroom expo over the summer, so it's been a good warmup for the season. Our weekly meetings begin next Monday. I've asked before if I could help with your CC, which labels this 'hapless' mushroom variously as 'a palapa list' or 'half a lot less Croesus'. It's amusing, but not helpful, and on certain species, it's downright x-rated. 😲 There is a way to delegate it, if you like, or maybe you'd prefer to do it yourself, but they do need to be corrected. Please let me know.
So the big question - is this a pure saprotrophic (wood decomposer) ... or would it be positive to have this in a chestnut orchard and/or old oak forest as a beneficial live saprophytic shroom on display ... ???
We had a HUGE bloom of those this year on a log I removed.. I had to take a closer look before I realized they weren't... I was lamenting what 50 lbs of Chicken of The Woods would have sold for! lol Interesting that it's considered rare.. I will say I have NEVER seen it before. These were on an OLD big Elm.. which was near oaks and old chestnut stumps. I wish I had take a picture.. there were some HUGE ones and it was a massive cluster of them. VERY interesting distinction between white rot and brown rot fungus! Do you happen to know which type produces DMSO as a bi-product? So EASY to "sit through all the details".. I am eating it up! (Just the info) I love all the excellent and detailed info you provide! Thnak you!
Appreciate another great video. One of my favorite things to do when and if you have time is watch the video with captions on. It comes up with the craziest words, great for a laugh.
I'm pretty sure I have seen this one quite often in eastern KS. Orange shelf mushroom seems like the perfect common name to me. P.S. great camera work on capturing the pores!
Found this once in the Susquehanna State Park. Story is the older oak trees were brought over from England in the early 1800's. Will have to check if they are still fruiting there
Thanks for making a video on wild foraging books. I got Samuel thayers Natures Garden. It has taught me very great keys on the identification of plants. I have found a few local species of plants, such as beeked hazle nuts, wild blueberries, and Autumberry. It is weird walking in the woods knowing I have food. most recent video so I wanted to say thanks.
Absolutely love the channel, thanks for sharing your knowledge...Would you consider doing a video on Laccaria ochropurpurea - If so, I would be more than excited. Blessings from Maine!
Thanks for remarking that. The best thing to remember is that there is no 'rule of thumb' that is true for all mushrooms. In France, there are a lot of old wives' tales that say all blue-stainers are toxic, or all white mushrooms are edible, or it's toxic if it tarnishes a silver spoon. The only solution is to learn each edible mushroom as you know your friends, so you can recognize them without fail, and then double check as you prepare them, so no toxic impostors sneak in.
I rewatch your vids, and play them to many. We watch ALL of your videos. You started me to collect. Now I have 5000 listings on Inaturalist 1750 unique and most are local fungus. Thank you for your work and effort.
Hm, in Germany we call these types of Polypore Mushrooms "Weichporlinge" which basically means "soft Polypores" which seems confusing at first, but compared to "chicken of the woods" they are less brittle and the pores seems to be kinda springy and tough.
I found some huge mushroom that I thought was shelf mushrooms it’s an old oak tree it fruits on the pieces that have fallen as well as the trunk. Can they be used for mulch for your vegetable garden if you chop them up
I was pondering yesterday what mushrooms were lost when the American Chestnut died out and today I get an answer. With blight or parasites in Locust, Persimmon, and now Ash trees we stand to loose much more than the trees. Thanks for the great video
Hi Adam, I enjoyed your snark about " can ya eat it..." so many times friends want to jump to the can ya eat it part of my limited explanation of a mushroom we encounter. A lady on the west coast, " Yellow Elinor" who is a UA-camr that shares similar videos as yours, snarks on folks just wanting to know, " can ya eat it" You are fun that way. I recently referred Peggy Schirmer to your channel. She has " gut feelings" a great youtube channel too. I think you and she will enjoy a similar zest for healthy living and vital diet. I look forward to each video you share. Smiling, George.
You need a TV show man. You are an amazing communicator and your love for the subject matter absolutely leaks through that smile constantly on your face. Well done brother.
Here, here!
I have passed along his show to my in laws and they love his channel now too!
Seriously! He’s my favorite for mushroom info .
The constraints of a TV show would destroy these wonderful presentations.
I totally agree. It was easy to listen to the scientific parts because of the way you delivered the information. And I agree about the smile too
Been wondering what they were. The ones I've seen are the size of plates and bigger.Glad I didn't pick. Excellent work describing as always.thanks
I love that you don't shy away from taxonomy, botanical terms, or scientific information. Always super informative and fascinating. Keep it up, please.
I can't think of one of your videos I don't sit through the entire thing. Your input is invaluable
I agree. If everyone who makes mushroom or plant videos were as thorough as Adam it would be bliss.
I trust this guy but I ain't eatin none of that crap
Big chunk a crow
I know right, this guy is a legend!
@@dingy9956 then don't watch his videos
Hey Adam! Just wanted to finally check in and say that I friggin adore you and your videos - don't think my rational mind can calculate properly for what a blessing it is to watch each and every one of your videos and to receive the infectious passion (and brilliance) you emanate about the natural world! Keep doing YOU, thank you from the bottom of my heart! Much love from Asheville :)
Thank you! I appreciate your support.
We can call it whatever we want? Fine. I hereby rename this mushroom, "Adamus Haritanus."
Count me in
I googled this phrase before realizing what it meant lol.
Laughing. Yes, to honor him is worthy. 👣
Interesting I have never heard of this mushroom! On a side note, I discovered that actual Chicken of the Woods goes really well with barbecue sauce.
You can use it literally any way you use chicken. I often prepare it WITH chicken and there are times, especially as cubes, nuggets, or chicken fingers, where it's pretty hard to tell the two apart.
Jay Excess I like cube....nsis 😁👌
@@rickyrick5586 hee hee
What doesn't taste good with barbeque sauce ? 😋🍝
Hey Adam! I ate some mushrooms that looked just like them. I’ll let you know if I die.. thanks!
I found this mushroom last year while foraging on some dead tree, i almost mistook it as chicken of the woods but was confused because it was just a single shelf, it was in michigan on a hiking trail about 30 minutes from brighton
Something like that is fruiting near the Rio Grande. I didn't grab any, but it isn't far from chicken of the woods on cottonwood trees.
Another reason it might be critically endangered in Europe is that they manage their woodlands so intensively. If you look at videos made in European settings you don't see many downed trees or underbrush. Maybe the mushroom doesn't have enough habitat if they keep removing downed trees.
If its not hapilopilus, its definitely snuffiluffigus. Thanks Adam, great as always
I came across one of these a month or so ago (truthfully, maybe longer, time is weird). I was wondering what it could be. It was so big, solid, steady. Very impressive to be near. Thanks Adam!
according to my native american eldersw if u burn it its great mostuito replellant
Anything you burn that creates uncombusted particles (smoke) is a great mosquito repellant. I prefer burning unseasoned cherry wood, because it's much more aromatic. 😁
Don't smoke it's bad for your lungs
Thank you for passing along knowledge given to you
When I was a little kid my dad used to give me cigarettes to puff on to keep the bugs away. Only when we went mushroom or seng hunting. Hippy parenting hahaha
Many people don't know the meaning of the word 'integrity'. This young man is integrity personified.
Thank you for your time, enthusiasm, sharing your knowledge and for the lack of commercials. A rare bird you are...
What a great teacher!!! All humans should know a little about the environment around them. The more you know the more you learn. Great job.
Great valueable intel. I thought the chaga was a ploypore. I applaude your ability in pronouncing all thier chemical names
Of course I sat through it all. I just found a bunch of chicken of the woods this year! Want to make sure! I done a video on mine so I need to double check and take down my video if it’s not Chicken of the woods! I really thought I was sure but you made me question myself. Thanks for what you do!!!
Whew I’m ok mine was white on bottom! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!
Adam, you go out of your way to see a rare mushroom. You are my people!
I found some big fungus growing like this here in Northwest Georgia. They are growing out from the bottom of some massive old growth oaks. Inside of them looks like stranded cork. Very dark color. But outside is basically white. Very hard fungus. Brought a small piece home and left it laying on the counter. Kept noticing dust around it each day. There was two worm like woodcutters that came out of it. Would really like to send you a chunk of it Adam.
Thanks Adam. We live a long way apart Adam, but we share many types of mushrooms.
Your videos have been integral to me finding more edible species. Your attention to detail including the position of gills to the stem have been incredibly valuable. I have a five step process to identifying edible species and so far it has stood me in good stead.
Is there somewhere I can share pictures with you? My dog and I search out a lot of them. I had almost given up on mushrooms around my area aside from Scotch Bonnets.
This year has been perfect for mushrooms! I have found species I never dreamed grew here.
Thanks for everything you do my young sir! You have done so much for me.
GENIUS. ❤ Definitely one of the best teachers out there. So incredibly thorough. Love your videos. Thank you soooo much.
I just found this!! I wasn't sure if it was chicken of the woods. I'm so glad you make these videos!💗👏
I'm a huge fan!! Love you brother!! Keep up the amazing work you are doing!!
pancake of the woods was exactly what i was thinking haha
Very good in depth analysis, thank you for putting spellings on screen, and reviewing from multiple 'angles'
People can make a big mistake when thinking a mushroom looks close enough to what they think it is. Be sure or don't eat.
@Brainjock yeah man it's totally safe. If You go out picking random mushrooms and trying to identify later you're probably in a bad position, but if you're well familiar with a species and spot it and can positively identify it, then you're fine. Like he mentioned, chicken of the woods is easy to identify, and its closest look alike is edible. Musbrooms like that are a good place to start.
The same species look super different from one another sometimes as well!
This is why it's so important to take a spore print!
@Brainjock those who die are generally those who act in bravado instead of confidence. So long as you always give your mushroom the time and respect to carefully identify to the species level, you will have a great time. Try finding a mushroom club near you!
Thank you so much for this video, I just stumbled across this mushroom yesterday and as you said from a distance I thought it was chicken of the woods. So cool to find out what it is.
Well presented, timely, relevant, important, informative. Thank You.
He pronounces the scientific names so easily, they just flow!
Yea, that amazes me too... it's his everyday vocabulary - yet I would stumble over every word, if I could pronounce them at all.
Love the side by side pictures and clear descriptions. Thanks!
Very interesting video. I heard about this mushroom when I was starting to look for chicken of the wood, but I never knew much about it. It’s apparently very rare, even critically endangered, here in sweden. But it has a common name actually: ”saffransticka” - ”saffran” is referring to it’s colour being somewhat like saffron.
I love your videos. Having just discovered your channel I am really happy I have. You create some of the best and most educational content I have been able to find online, and I look forward to the next time you offer your class. We are also working on starting up a small outdoor mushroom grow on our farm in the back 4 acres of woods.
I wish we had more people like this amazing teacher! Much love brother. Keep lighting the path for all to see🙏
Just found, foraged, and cooked chicken of the woods twice this past week, for the first time, then I watched this video! Cool heads up, on the rare chance I find this. I'm heading to a cabin about an hour north of williamsport pa for a few days and definitely going to poke around the forest as we will be surrounded :) thanks for your videos Adam, great stuff!
dude your knowledge is mind blowing , thank you
I found this mushroom, growing on a fallen oak, right across from my cabin in Northern Michigan. I had no idea what it was, but I thought it was beautiful. I often dry the more colorful specimens to use in my miniature gardens. I was so happy to see this video, that helped me identify it!
I don't watch your videos to see if a mushroom is edible. I have no intention of going out into the woods and chowing down on a potentially poisonous fungus, lol. I watch your videos, because I like to learn things, and you are always so super excited about the subject!!!! Sad, that so many forms of Life on Earth are on the brink of extinction, glad you got to document the Not Chicken of the Woods mushroom.
Thank you again for another great video.
I actually just found one of these in
Beechwood Farms Nature Reserve in Pittsburgh! You should go check it out it was giant! I also got to observe the spore "smoke" as you were describing as well. I was very excited to find it given how cool it looked, and was even cooler now seeing this video after the fact and finding out how rare an experience that was!
Thank you do much for sharing your knowledge with us! I, for one, love what you do.
So cool. Thanks for sharing!!
As always thank you for being such a great teacher!
Hi Adam, can you make a video showing us how to make tinctures or oil? I collected a pound of Turkey Tail the past two days and would love to use them to help me with my cancer treatments, thanks.
Cool, I do that with pot to get the oils but I put it all in a double boiler and burn off the alcohol, I see nobody does that for shrooms so I guess there’s not much oil in them. Had a great harvest today, drying them in the oven right now.
Can we call them Saffron chunkybois?
😂
@@ceesan5605 swole saffrons?
de-feathered chickens lolol
HAHAHA! The Swedish name on this one is 'Saffron mushroom'!
'Saffransticka' to the Swedes.
"Ticka" is the Swedish, not Latin, name of the group of fungi, "mushroom" is "svamp" in Swedish. "Svamp" also means "sponge" 😂, but in the ability of soaking up water there is a resemblance.
Nah, call them Satan's Bloody Rectum
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Another awesome video.
Very informative Adam, as usual. Makes me want to head out into the woods mushroom hunting. Kind of reminds me of an overgrown Oyster mushroom, except for the color & thickness. I was once told by a Mycologist friend of mine "Don't eat any mushroom that you don't recognize, unless of course you have eaten one before & lived to tell about it"!
Always a wealth of information, Adam. Thanks again. 👍
Hi Adam, Thank you so much for taking the time to produce these wonderfully informative videos. Would you consider tackling the thorny subject of rusula identification in the future please.
My Mushroom journal shows I started finding chicken of the woods last year sept.1st..here in Missouri
You got enough rain this year to have an awesome year. If it cools down! Started cooling down hear the end of last week but we haven't had rain .....
I found a great flush in KC this morning
Awesome as usual Adam. I've found the other 2 you mentioned. And maybe someday I'll find this one. You are my 1st and foremost go too. Thank you for you're vast knowledge.
How did you learn so much? You are so smart!!
Great video as always Adam. Always nice to see a Hapalopilus in the field!
I saw a this mushroom in Fayetteville WV ...on the the Endless Wall trail in New River Gorge
Love your videos! Thank you.
My son an I found are 1st chicken this past Saturday in Maine
Hi Adam! Wow, that was a LOT of information!
Thanks for the great information,as always....
Do you know of any UA-camr that goes into the amount of details that you go into for southern Illinois?
Absolutely love you're videos and the lessons you teach! Thank you!
Hi Adam! Another informative, interesting, and delightful video! I’ve come across this fungi only a couple of times here in the mountains of sw Virginia. I was fooled into thinking they were sulfur shelf from a distance, too. We have lots of oaks as well as some quite old chestnut logs. I’ve never seen any as large as those! Thanks for all your work and knowledge.
I have yet to forage a wild mushroom. I'm not confident enough in my identification skills, yet. I am almost sure I have seen this mushroom, it was so long ago, I think I was still living in Kentucky at the time. When you held it up at the end, something triggered a memory. I will watch for this one. I'm living in Virginia now, excited to find out what is growing in the woods here. Thank you so much Adam, you really are very good at teaching and explaining. I so enjoy the way you capture the beauty of your environment. Your enthusiasm seems boundless.
Thank you! This mushroom has fooled me in Mid Michigan and I just stared at it in confusion. Now to trek back out to the bog and do a potassium hydroxide test to be sure.
Every one of your videos is like a college course, I have so many species on my property, thank you for this invaluable information
thank you so much for all the great info! You have helped me in my mushroom hunting so much!!
What a very interesting find. Great job Adam.
Great video Adam!
I would love for you to talk about Lions mane mushroom. It would be nice to learn about it from you. I have heard that it grows on hard wooded trees but which ones and at what season of the year Also does it grow in America I heard it does but I’ve never seen it anywhere.
amy schultz . Yes it does grow in America! I’ve found it, and ate it. And yes it is Good!
Grows off of Beech trees. Believe it was in the Fall season. Yummy, yummy...
jvcycle Good to know Tku I Believe I Have. Beech tree on my property I will have to pay attention to it now that I know that. Again Tku for the info.
He already have a video
ua-cam.com/video/m09yDk8LfZQ/v-deo.html
Thanks for another interesting lesson.
Thanks for watching, Brad!
I work with reclaimed barn wood and get American Chestnut, can you use it or the saw dust to grow and study this particular mushroom?
Is there any mushroom ID book that discusses KOH testing on mushrooms, and the entire inventory and how they color-respond to the chemical ?
I've foraged many different mushrooms but never seen those. Good video. Thanks for your time.
Yay! I got the Hapalopilus part, at least. It's so distinctly fuzzy and colorful, but the wrong color for H. nidulans. I've never seen the H. crocea in France, though it is here and considered rare, as in the US. Thanks to you and your friends for this closeup look.
Thanks for watching! Congrats on knowing its name!
@@LearnYourLand Thanks! I've been preparing the revised labels for our October mushroom expo over the summer, so it's been a good warmup for the season. Our weekly meetings begin next Monday.
I've asked before if I could help with your CC, which labels this 'hapless' mushroom variously as 'a palapa list' or 'half a lot less Croesus'. It's amusing, but not helpful, and on certain species, it's downright x-rated. 😲
There is a way to delegate it, if you like, or maybe you'd prefer to do it yourself, but they do need to be corrected. Please let me know.
Thank you for this wonderful video! Well done. 😊
That's a mouth full. Thanks
It must be a year for bloom because i just found this mushroom this month for the first time ever and didnt know what it was. Thanks for the info!
So the big question - is this a pure saprotrophic (wood decomposer) ... or would it be positive to have this in a chestnut orchard and/or old oak forest as a beneficial live saprophytic shroom on display ... ???
I didn't catch that either. Was he saying it is both?? 🤔🤨😉
We had a HUGE bloom of those this year on a log I removed.. I had to take a closer look before I realized they weren't... I was lamenting what 50 lbs of Chicken of The Woods would have sold for! lol Interesting that it's considered rare.. I will say I have NEVER seen it before. These were on an OLD big Elm.. which was near oaks and old chestnut stumps. I wish I had take a picture.. there were some HUGE ones and it was a massive cluster of them. VERY interesting distinction between white rot and brown rot fungus! Do you happen to know which type produces DMSO as a bi-product? So EASY to "sit through all the details".. I am eating it up! (Just the info) I love all the excellent and detailed info you provide! Thnak you!
I have seen this in both Beach City wildlife area and at Bolivar Dam public hunting area in NE OHIO....Also a couple walking trails in Stark County.
Another informative video...well done.
I never told you that YOU are my Mushroom Guru! Amazing videos I hope you get paid for well, because you deserve it. Thank You!
Appreciate another great video. One of my favorite things to do when and if you have time is watch the video with captions on. It comes up with the craziest words, great for a laugh.
Absolutely fascinating to see the mini cloud of spores being ejected. Thank you so much for sharing that.
Outstanding, sir. Thank you, for another brilliant mycoscopic review. You are, indeed, the funkiest fellow mycosapien, on UA-cam.
I'm pretty sure I have seen this one quite often in eastern KS. Orange shelf mushroom seems like the perfect common name to me.
P.S. great camera work on capturing the pores!
Thanks Adam! I think that we'll definitely recognize that one now if we ever come across it.
Found this once in the Susquehanna State Park. Story is the older oak trees were brought over from England in the early 1800's. Will have to check if they are still fruiting there
Great vids thanks for the info
Thanks for making a video on wild foraging books. I got Samuel thayers Natures Garden. It has taught me very great keys on the identification of plants. I have found a few local species of plants, such as beeked hazle nuts, wild blueberries, and Autumberry. It is weird walking in the woods knowing I have food. most recent video so I wanted to say thanks.
Glad you're enjoying Sam's book! His other two are just as fantastic.
Great video! Super detailed, thank you for explaining so much!
Absolutely love the channel, thanks for sharing your knowledge...Would you consider doing a video on Laccaria ochropurpurea - If so, I would be more than excited. Blessings from Maine!
Wow! I really learn so much from you. Easily!
I’ve read/heard from more than one source ‘shrooms that grow on trees are non-toxic. Thanks, Mr. Haritan for setting me straight on that.
Thanks for remarking that. The best thing to remember is that there is no 'rule of thumb' that is true for all mushrooms. In France, there are a lot of old wives' tales that say all blue-stainers are toxic, or all white mushrooms are edible, or it's toxic if it tarnishes a silver spoon. The only solution is to learn each edible mushroom as you know your friends, so you can recognize them without fail, and then double check as you prepare them, so no toxic impostors sneak in.
The auto captions are gold! "Half a waffle as croeseus" "hapless croeseus" lol
Good to the end and learned somethin' new!
I rewatch your vids, and play them to many. We watch ALL of your videos. You started me to collect. Now I have 5000 listings on Inaturalist 1750 unique and most are local fungus. Thank you for your work and effort.
man you make amazing videos. Keep them coming
Hm, in Germany we call these types of Polypore Mushrooms "Weichporlinge" which basically means "soft Polypores" which seems confusing at first, but compared to "chicken of the woods" they are less brittle and the pores seems to be kinda springy and tough.
I found some huge mushroom that I thought was shelf mushrooms it’s an old oak tree it fruits on the pieces that have fallen as well as the trunk. Can they be used for mulch for your vegetable garden if you chop them up
I was pondering yesterday what mushrooms were lost when the American Chestnut died out and today I get an answer. With blight or parasites in Locust, Persimmon, and now Ash trees we stand to loose much more than the trees. Thanks for the great video
Hi Adam, I enjoyed your snark about " can ya eat it..." so many times friends want to jump to the can ya eat it part of my limited explanation of a mushroom we encounter. A lady on the west coast, " Yellow Elinor" who is a UA-camr that shares similar videos as yours, snarks on folks just wanting to know, " can ya eat it" You are fun that way. I recently referred Peggy Schirmer to your channel. She has " gut feelings" a great youtube channel too. I think you and she will enjoy a similar zest for healthy living and vital diet. I look forward to each video you share. Smiling, George.
I love to watch Yellow Elenor!! 😎😎
Adam, I just put a one minute Video up of some kind of black Stick Fungus I found on a dead mossy log. Your knowledge is needed .
Thank you so much for sharing im a mushroom hunter in Missouri I havent seen this one but alot of chickens & hens around here🍄🍄🍄
Chickens are out in MI too :)
I and my family and friends had many times, and I thought it was lingzhi（Ganoderma）kind, we are all fine. There are many on my land