Summer Mushroom Foraging- Chanterelles and Lobsters already!?
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- Summer is not typically known for being a great time of the year to hunt for mushrooms in western North America, but it can be if you know where to look! In this video Mycology educator and UA-camr Aaron Hilliard takes us on a romp in the forest to learn about some of the common fungi you might encounter while strolling through the forest, as well as some amazing edible mushrooms that are highly sought after.
Aside from the hearty Russula and Amanita mushrooms dotting the trail sides, we find some absolute culinary delicacies growing right near sea level, a real surprise this early in the year. From truffles in the winter to morels and Porcini in the spring, we roll right into summer with Golden Chanterelles and vibrant Lobster mushrooms. Come along and don't forget to subscribe! Mush Love!!
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After watching this video I took my pup for a hike. Took me a minute to find the first one, but once I trained my eyes I found Chanterelles everywhere. Hundreds. Left the pins, took maybe 10% of the larger ones. Sharing with family and the neighborhood tonight.
I owe it all to this episode! Thank you again!
Awesome!!!
Lucky bah-stud!
This video inspired me, I went out to hike today to try and find some chanties! Not only did I find a new spot, but also a ton of Chanterelles!
Thanks for the heads up…..Starting to feel sick…. Might need to take tomorrow off 🍄😏
Thanks! I haven't gone foraging since I moved to Coos Bay but have been feeling the urge. I used to hike the coastal trail in southern Oregon and found a nice variety down there.
Hey Aaron , great to hear and see the video. I will go check some of my areas. Got to love Grandma getting you into foraging early on. Have found Chanterelles near the coast in July , but not this early. Thanks for sharing the information. Touching a bit on making your own extracts and foodstuff. Great to hear about your classes. It’s important to pass on the knowledge we learn about fungi. Always enjoy watching your experiences. Good stuff. Heading out. Thanks Aaron 👊🍄💚
Aaron that’s so amazing to find chanterelles and lobsters so early. I’ll have to go out this weekend and check my usual spots around Olympia.
To me, picking in W WA for the last few decades, mushrooms are the canary in the coal mine for global warming. Chantys used to reliably be first week of Sept through Thanksgiving. But now I’m finding them as late as Feb and as early as July and now I see you’ve found them in June. It’s great and crazy concerning at the same time.
That is fantastic! Time to get out into the woods! So exciting to see them this early this year.
I live in a forest, russula and chanterelle grow in my backyard, they pop up like crazy after a strong rain storm
Goals!!
Love the comment that the chanterelle was "handsome", people don't compliment mushrooms enough lol
Very cool! Gonna go check my fall lobster spot. Thanks for posting.
Yeah I was surprised I just found the one, I think in about a week more will be popping out!
I'm on Whidbey, I find it interesting how much it can differ here climate wise from jsut across the water. Usually when you're finding mushrooms I'm struggling. 😂 I definitely don't mind the hunt though.
Best shroon channel ever. But I live in the south. Still learning though
As always, thanks for the great video! Time to check the lobster spot! Also, congrats on the teaching gig!
I do remember last year Washington seemed to fruit earlier than Oregon.
Going to go check on some spots where I found lobsters and chanterelles towards the end of July last year.
I'm over here at the central Oregon Coast. Wish me luck!
love these videos sm, honestly main reason i love oregon, the mushrooms
Thanks alot Aaron I've been wondering when we were going to see the lobstas
LOL! The Downeast pronunciation!
Once you know what a shanty looks like, suddenly you see them EVERYWHERE when you get in the coast range here in NW OR. Guess it's just always moist enough... :-)
Our monsoon season has started and we’re going camping in 2 days, fingers crossed for pop ups! My local fav is currently American Ceasar, and this year cultivated commercial Wine capps from Field & Forest! Yum!😊
I have found amanita jacksonnii many, many times now, and very confidently identified it, but I haven't had the courage to eat one. This year, I will be eating them hahaha
Love love love chantrelles
Love your content and enthusiasm! NW Pennsylvania found chanterelles, oysters & ghost pipe. It's only getting better ✌️🍄
I have a spot here in Southern New England where I've found russella, ghost pipe and oysters, but no chants or lobsters.
It’s so amazing I just went on a hike and found so many and the wildlife was beautiful maybe one day we can go for a walk . But heck ya thanks for the video.. happy travels and Rich picking or foraging either way. I hope you have a great time it’s absolutely beautiful and amazing out there my last 10.5 mile hike was amazing my friend told me I was crazy but i walked the trail twice and went back and forth a bunch of times like I was jumping in and out of big bushes 😂 .. but was having so much fun thanks for the inspiration.. 🙏 .
Great video. You scored.
Found Cinnabar chanterelle primordia the other day and found a very nice flush of ghost chanterelles in the same patch of woods everything is fruiting early in Michigan.
Aaron, I realize that potential liability concerns might well prevent it, but I think it would be a nice capstone to your course planned for Olympic College to incorporate some of the foraged mushrooms into a luncheon at "The Library" restaurant on the campus, assuming that training facility (part of the college's culinary program in the early 1990s) still exists. If I still worked swingshift at Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Keyport like I did back then, I would attend your class. I ate many lunches at "The Library" while studying at OC, including meals that I remember fondly to this day!
The first chanterelle I ever found I had no idea what it was. It was before I really started getting into fungi. Was on a nature trail that went around a ridge then down to a river close to a lake. Ended up finding 15 species (I could identify 2 of them at the time). My daughter asked what that "orange one" was, I told her "I have no idea. Looks kind of like cheetos puffcorn from above so we'll call it the Puffcorn Mushroom". Comparing pics I took to my first field guide (I bought later) showed it was clearly a chanterelle:)
nice one dude, thanks!
I'm so jealous of that lobster mushroom. Where I live in southern Maine russula brevipes are everywhere but I only rarely find a lobster.
But you guys have a huge amount of awesome mushrooms, including all those beautiful boletes!
We always want what we can’t have 😂. Az gets a nice amount of lobstershrooms to make up for no ocean 😅😅😅. But you have tasty fresh live lobbies 😊
Yes I will agree with that in Nh👍👍🍄🍄🍀🍀💚💚🌳🌳🤔🤔🤔
You think you could find a lot of lobsters in Maine 😂
@@classicmatt6155facts
good show
I love ripe red huckleberries
Yet to consume a lobster.... But I'm def looking forward to!
Wow, Chanterelles and Lobsters in the end of June!!😮😃✨Chanterelles are the best to cook with shallots and orange mascot wine!😋Must be the best!!💚💗
Mascot wine? Or is that muscat?
Muscat and/or Moscato!😆 Instead of picking on people though, you could research on your own which wine works the best for your taste buds?! My hubby is the cook, by the way, and he says that any of a bit sweet and flavorful wine would work!😉 We love the Orange moscato the best, good luck!!✨
@@yukigatlin9358 , I wasn't picking on anyone. I've heard of muscat raisins and muscatelle wine, but I've never eaten or drunk either. For all I knew, "mascot" wine might be a "thing".
@@goodun2974 Oh sorry💞😁✨A peace offering here... Fresh muscat grapes are small and rather expensive for a pound but, seedless and delish, you should Google!!😋💚✨Muscat wine is relatively cheaper wine, fruity, and low alcohol, so the both of uscan enjoy the whole bottle at one time with some mushrooms and yummy fish or something without getting so drunk!😋😄💗I think any grocery store would carry a Moscato wine! One we love is the orange moscato with an angel on the bottle!! Mmmm..., yummy! We should try looking for Chanterelles soon!😉✨
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Although Panther is consisdered toxic, it has purposes if properly repurposed. Helped me drasticly reduce my ADHD medication.
In Southern New England the only "chants" I've found were the tiny red orange ones (found some last week), and I've never seen a lobster despite the fact that I know of several areas where there are lots of red , green and a few white Russulas.
I'm in upstate ny and I find lots of lobster mushrooms. Most of the lobster spots I have are in white birch and hemlock mixed areas. I hope this helps you find some.
It may just be a coincidence but it is definitely a patern I've seen
@@Upstateoutdoorz , The pair of state parks and land trusts where I've seen the most quantity and variety of Mushrooms are mixed forests with hardwoods, especially oak, and various conifers including hemlock, perhaps some beech but few birches. The land trust with the most russella species also has scatterings of ghost pipe which is supposed to be symbiotic with russella mycelium, and has a few, mostly inedible boletus types (bitter boletes, ugh), but no chants or lobsters; the state forest has almost no Russella but lots of gorgeously photogenic red, yellow and peach Amanita (muscaria, flavonia etc) and huge, floppy/soggy, gross red-cracked boletes; I've found summer oysters, a giant puffball, and some decent edible suillis and leccinum such as"chicken fat" mushrooms there. Another spot has what appear to be bay boletes that taste pretty good, mixed with lots of red and yellow amanita. I see chicken of the woods everywhere, mostly the orange sulfureous variety, but it's not one of my favorites; I've never found any maitake.
@goodun2974 seems like your area is pretty similar to what I deal with. I actually have a area of birch I go to every year that lobsters grow underneath and through the decaying birch bark and logs on the ground. With hemlocks very close to them.
I wonder how much of this is due to the Kitsap peninsula being surrounded by water, and (probably?) having more humidity. I haven't yet found any summer chanterelles or lobsters in the Cascades.
Same
@@morgankruse4666 I went to my "prolific chanterelle" spot today in the Cascades, around 1500ft. Didn't find a thing - very few mushrooms overall. Despite this area getting 8-9 inches of rain in the last month.
Salmonberries were abundant though!
The bodies of water definitely have an influence.
11:30 can you explain why these Pacific Golden chanterelles look so much different in the summer than they do in the fall?
Is it for obvious reasons such as water and temp levels?
I've always thought they must be rainbow chanterelles because of those differences in appearance and even texture/consistency.
Yeah, I think it's purely water content. They'll grow big and wet in the exact same place in the fall. I go to the mountains to find rainbows 🍄
@mushroomwonderland1 thank you for confirming. Even though I'm a tad bit skeptical, mostly because I've always thought they were different, I kind of have to believe you on account of you knowing much more than I when it comes to mycology! 😄 Appreciate you 🙏
Summer Chanterelles also get "summer syndrome" :) not a real condition.
The get toasted in the sun on there caps, so they turn a liittle darker and growth is inhibited, so end up smaller.
The sunburn cap also gives a contrast to the regular color below, suggesting something like the contrast of a Rosey Chanterelle.
We wove wushroom wonderland
Wtf? This early? It's not even july! *Checked my spots, nothing yet 😢*
Hi. I live in Bremerton and I love mushroom hunting. We’ve went out many times and came up empty. Can you give me an idea where we should look. We’re familiar with the Lake Cushman area and Hoodsport area. Thank you.
I can't give exact location information, but habitat is useful. And there's not a lot out right now so you got to look very closely!
Thank you.
Awesome! Is it normal for Chanterelles to be fruiting this early? Lucky… >:(
It's pretty early! But I wouldn't say it's totally unusual.🍄
Look for the White Chanterelles. They seem to enjoy (?) or not mind summer heat like the Golden Chanterelles.
Also, look around bodies of water like Puget Sound. The added moisture seems to bring out summer fruitings. Like Aaron, folks I know who find Chanterelles in the summer live close to bodies of water.
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Hi Aaron!! Thank you so much for sharing!! I’ve learned a lot!! Love the channel and content, however, the scientific names…?! Really interesting, really hard for me to pronounce 😂 but, it keeps me and my Great Dane out in the woods!! 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿❤️❤️❤️ from Mason county.
You got to create some new pathways in your brain to speak scientific Latin. It's like learning piano. At first it seems daunting, even impossible, but as you persist at it your brain will create new pathways and it gets easier! Because you're in the same area as me I could probably just use regional common names and it would make plenty of sense to you, but when speaking about mushrooms in a broader sense geographically it makes it pretty imperative to use scientific names, as common names can create even more confusion!
@@mushroomwonderland1 And make sure you learn the correct pronunciation from the beginning, and not pronounce the scientific name incorrectly for a year until someone finally corrects you 🤦♂It's hard to stop using the incorrect pronunciation when you're so used to saying it incorrectly for so long (personal experience).
@@mushroomwonderland1 thank you so much!! For how long will you have your class available at the Olympic College? Would it be specific to Kitsap county? we do have an Olympic college in the Shelton area in Mason County. 👍🏿❤️
Revelations resulting from DNA sequencing studies have thrown mushroom hobbyists and even professional mycologists some curveballs over the past couple of decades. Several species have been reclassified taxonomically, moved to a different genus or even found to represent a distinctive genus of their own. Despite those revisions, I suggest that serious foragers and amateur mycologists learn scientific names, even if outdated ones, to avoid some of the potential confusion inherent in common names of organisms, especially if one travels across different regions of the country and world in pursuit of foraging edible fungi.
An edible species (for most, but not all, people) common to our area, which I think provides a good example of potential confusion inherent in some common names is the "Shaggy Parasol" mushroom. Quoting from the Wikipedia article: "Shaggy parasol is the common name for three closely related species of mushroom, Chlorophyllum rhacodes, C. olivieri and C. brunneum, found in North America, Europe and Southern Africa. Even though Chlorophyllum rhacodes was previously classified as Lepiota rhacodes, a professional mycologist or competent amateur would not misunderstand which mushroom (complex) a person was speaking of if they used the old taxonomic name that was used to identify what was thought to be a single species. Contrast that understanding to the potential for misidentification when casual fungal foragers speak of Shaggy Mane, Parasol, and Shaggy Parasol mushrooms and I hope you will see why I personally advocate for learning and using the scientific nomenclature.
I believe that the brief Wikipedia article "Shaggy parasol" is well worth the read for those persons relatively new to wild mushroom foraging. I'll include another quotation from the article to bolster my argument: "Furthermore, young shaggy parasols look identical to the poisonous Chlorophyllum molybdites (the mushroom that causes the most poisonings in North America yearly). Checking for a white spore print is essential as C. molybdites' print is green (older specimens having slightly green gills). As a result, this mushroom is not recommended for inexperienced hunters."
Among Chlorophyllum molybdites common names are Green-spored parasol, False parasol, Green-spored lepiota, and Vomiter. It is a similarly widespread mushroom.
i was always told that a true turkey tail had to be pure white underside. thank you for informing me
Yeah that's a pretty good rule of thumb, or maybe a cream color, as they get old and start to deteriorate and they will often turn off white or tannish.
You pressure cook turkey tail? Mine are really tough so I wondered what to do with them! Thanks
Yeah I did a video about it. I will pressure cook them for 30 minutes at least at 15 PSI until they're soft and then you can pulse them up into smaller bits with a food processor or grinder, then dry them. Then you just need to steep them in some hot water like tea.
You need to get stinging nettles into your system for your allergies.
Iv been watching a few of your vids I live in Michigan lower curious of the location not asking for exact spot .. just state and maybe county
Yeah definitely, I try to make it clear on my videos that I'm in Western Washington, if I left it out in this one oops! Mushrooms can vry regionally But a lot of the same ones grow there that grow here. Pretty similar latitude, But mushrooms on the east of the Rockies are usually quite different than out here in the West. But close relatives at least.
Are you hunting in Washington or Oregon in this video?
@@sethscarboro2682 Washington
@@mushroomwonderland1thanks so much
Turkey tell is there a green with brown white stripes
Yeah there's a lot of different colors. As long as it has white pore surface underneath, you should be good to go. I have found them with green and orange, blue and gray, brown and yellow. That's how they get there species name, versicolor.
Hey I'm kind of a newb. If you want to leave feedback on my finds that would be awesome!
In America/European dialogue this mushroom is known as Hyglyphepheous Metamorphosis Superious Polyporus, in the Soviet Union this mushroom is also known as Type 44.
Which mushroom?
@@mushroomwonderland1 guessing the turkey tail?