Active Mushrooms and Their Look-Alikes- with Alan Rockefeller

[@billybobjimjackjoe5400]

You know the saying, "Oh, they're a national treasure." Well, Alan is an international treasure.

[@BenjaminRideout-i5c]

As is Hamilton Morris they are my favorite people 😊

[@UncalBertExcretes]

Wins national lisp awards for days

[@thomasmathea2306]

I had the pleasure of mushroom hunting with Alan in Mendocino county California. Learned a lot, got lost, went out for pizza and beer! Super solid dude.

[@johnhogan8327]

This is the content I’m looking for

[@philiporeilly9662]

In 1977 I was working at a newly-built community mental health center in Seattle. That Fall the installed sod lawns fruited heavily with Stuntzii. I built a drying rack in my office desk, and came to work early for weeks, keeping our clients safe.

[@ekichacatemente]

I think this is extremely under-rated; i can't imagine how all the enthusiasts from the 70s - 90s would react to being able to watch such a resource in the palm of their hand. Thank you Aaron and Alan!!! 💯

[@kingjsolomon]

One of the coolest dudes alive!

[@seanlewis3414]

This KZbin channel has changed my life for the better. Really appreciate the knowledge and quality videos.

[@Zaratul420]

Always love Mushroom Wonderland! Huge props to Alan and the Mycena group for putting this together, yall are inspirations! :)

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thanks so much!

[@Ashoffungi]

So stoked about this! The passion alan has with mushrooms really is contagious!

[@nerfherder4284]

Thanks for the info, I live on the Olympic peninsula a our city decriminalized the possession of "active" mushrooms a couple years ago 👍🏻

[@TheCalebish52]

Absolutely incredible video. I love all of your content, keep up the good work mates. Cheers!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Glad you enjoy it!

[@bobmulhiemer7564]

Thank you Alan !

[@martinmix7464]

Super impressed with your knowledge, Alan! I'll definitely seek out more information from you and as always, love Mushroom Wonderland!

[@kimprocarione5473]

Thank you, Alan! Always a pleasure!

[@kayladixon1545]

Top tier content, Aaron and Alan. 👏👏👏

[@christianmcclelland9370]

20:03 spooked me hahaha

[@jdalkebmxgameplay9605]

Same 😂

[@wingnutbert9685]

Yeah. Wasn't nice through the Grado's!!

[@JohnOnEdge]

this is fantastic

[@saminselenciata4861]

Holy shit this is such a gem to find !!

[@mitrawets]

Great video. Alan Rockerfeller is very knowledgeable and a good host. Fall/Autumn summary of West Coastal mushies. Again, great vid.

[@deveary]

This video is going to help me forage in my backyard!!! Thank you for all this useful information 🫶🏽

[@dodamel74]

Wait till you start walking around your neighborhood you will be surprised I've found P Allenii around the corner from me

[@graemedevine9651]

Thanks Aaron, that was superb, best video on psilocybin mushrooms I've ever seen, Alan's a tower of knowledge on mushrooms a very interesting guy, he's probably forgotten more than I will ever know on mushrooms.

[@jasongarcia2140]

Right around the 20 minute mark you accidentally turned the music up really high as alan was telling us one of the galerina species names. 🙏🏼❤️

[@djwhiteflour]

He mentioned it earlier on, Galerina badipes.

[@ianrenomtb]

Yeaaa! I've been waiting for this one. Thanks guys

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Our pleasure!

[@niknaksinnature]

Great video! Always love learning from you and Allen!!

[@PatchesNeddy]

Wonder why Alan said P. azurescens are only found at around the mouth of the Columbia river. They go way farther north and south along the coastline.

[@darenscott1718]

I know of a patch in Eugene, that has been reliable for the past three years. Some from that patch don't look like the traditional tall, slim, shallow flying saucer cap, with sharp umbo. They are pretty chunky with a longer bell shaped cap and broad umbo. The landscaping was changed from turf grass to bamboo and Doug fir chips about 6 or seven years ago. I have been wondering how they found their way to that spot from the coast.

[@GuruEthereal369]

I really enjoy your videos. Keep up the great content. 🤙✌️🖖

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thanks, will do!

[@ftd224]

Solid organic content from 2 icons

[@rockdean1]

Very informative. Thanks Alan

[@zackschumann5521]

Bummed I missed Alan for the walk outside of Ashland, OR. Living Legend, this man is.

[@BrianOSheaPlus]

Thanks for making this video. Very informative! Looking forward to the mushroom hunting season.

[@Jonnymycomania]

Awesome content, great video, Alan is legendary.

[@TheFredette14]

The galerina vs cyanescens comparison is super helpful

[@markgreen7701]

Very informative! Thank you!

[@meganwillo1]

Excellent video, thanks for all the wisdom!! The blurry camera makes me feel cross eyed though 😂

[@brianjanku4549]

Nice video! Good job.

[@nainmayoudavich7541]

I wish there were more North east QC//Vermont//Mainee etc active mushrooms hunt vids :(

[@jasongarcia2140]

I stayed with my mom over there last year (they moved there recently) and I missed the West Coast for the winters in VT are unforgiving and I couldn't find any mushrooms in the fall like I usually do. I was in Burlington. He just said all the way up to Maine for ovoids though coincidentally in this video so.... You could find SOMETHING. I'm glad to be back in Oregon.

[@akdrywallguy60]

Amazing content!

[@johnsweeney8061]

I love hearing Alan say species.

[@jasonvoorheis1984]

Thanks

[@chefjameso]

amazing sets of waves at 24:00

[@serfbummer]

Thank You.

[@brytonkenney1507]

Well I'm slacking 😂 10th to the like button. Thanks again Aaron your videos are wonderful, Mush Love.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@brytonkenney1507 thank you🍄💯

[@junkettarp8942]

Thankyou Adam.

[@timhaywood1100]

Weird sound @20:04. Otherwise, a great and very informative episode.

[@Mike3313]

I jumped, holy shit... great video tho!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

😅 weird!!

[@GuberShep]

consider this a late hween spook I suppose lol. Ya got me

[@slingking7344]

Was quite the surprise 😂

[@slingking7344]

If your on mushrooms you probably won’t like 20:04 😂 “speaking from experience”

[@goodun2974]

Ovoideocystidiata has been reported in southwest CT but I havent found them in the eastern half of the state.

[@tannermelton884]

Awesome work! 🍄❤️

[@nevereverforever0010-uf9su]

yesssss LOVE WAVY CAPS

[@Damon-u1y]

Great stuff. Camera focus wonky.

[@cacogenicist]

_Ps. azurescens_ will at times show up _near_ that invasive dune grass, but not right in the stuff. I've seen it along coastal roads fruiting around Himalayan blackberry and Scotch Broom (also invasive) -- more commonly you find _Ps. allenii_ and _Ps. cyanescens_ in such areas. They do also show up from time to time in wood chip beds in proximity to those dune grasses. And they can be easily cultivated in wood chips. Preferably hardwoods like Alder, Maple, or Oak. But probably also Douglas Fir. Also, azzies have moved south somewhat, for sure. So they aren't exclusively around the mouth of the Columbia, but they are _far_ more common there. Cyans and and _Ps allenii_ will also show up in those grassses, colonizing the blade detritus and the woody, dead rhizome mats.

[@darenscott1718]

I can confirm Doug fir chips will grow some azures.

[@scottthorson1]

Ha... Yo Alan ! It's YESSUP from the Shroomery! Haven't seen you in years! 🤙

[@ericsmith8996]

I saw one coment from a 1977 picker! Thumbs up to that you guys were way ahead of the pack! Did you find any crazy types back then did you guys collect the beyo's those were ugly but my favorites

[@Acceleratedpayloads]

There were inocybe and entoloma growing right next to some P cyan the other day. Stay safe friends.

[@GuardianAngelWatcher]

What a “wonder ful” education!

[@waywordprairie922]

i wonder if different lens would be good to use for larger field of view... but understand ur trying to take crisp upclose photos aswell. at any rate how do i get alans jacket!!! thanks for the great video! to think we used to have use grainy old scans of photos from mj shroomer....!!!!!

[@SelenaCombs-b5k]

When comparing the differences between safe mushrooms and their poisonous look alikes,it would be helpful if you would use the common names instead of the scientific names,because most beginners don't know the scientific names

[@petercremin742]

Will Alan ever explore New England? My heart tells me the area is rich in psilocybe. I’ve only found Gymnopilus in Lyme, CT. There must be a large, diverse population of psilocybe in New England too. We have the perfect geography for them. Lots of grazing pastures, manure, woodchip beds everywhere. Stream beds, lots of disrupted areas, even clear cuts. Huge forested areas with hiking trails, horse trails, and even dune grasses from Cape Cod down through the CT coast….etc. I just don’t understand how the area isn’t chock full of psilocybe. I’ve found ergot growing from many different grasses but we are sorely lacking in psilocybe. Unless they are cultivated and introduced into the environment. My intuition tells me they must already be there.

[@fast67fb63]

Thank you so much for the sxs video I have all of these in my yard mostly bad ones.

[@GailMcmartin]

Love that sweat shirt with the mushroom on it where can I get one?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@GailMcmartin mycena.llc !!

[@southpawscientific4122]

Alan!

[@bondy034]

Woodlovers paralysis has been shown to be deadly in Australia. It's dose dependent though. I think there's good evidence for 2 people losing their lives to woodlovers paralysis in the last couple of years - a heart attack happened during the paralysis .

[@dissolver5388]

they are beautiful

[@djwhiteflour]

Damn, I have one more day here, and the coast is calling me back now!

[@user-kz9yq6ci6u]

Ive been on the hunt for active mushrooms in monterey county for the last few years and nothing lol lots of look alikes but no luck yet

[@DaringDan]

Back in my day we didn't complain about the wavy cap paralysis.

[@BushyHairedStranger]

Which day of the week is “ my day”?

[@nwhuckin7761]

how much do you have to eat to get paralysis

[@BushyHairedStranger]

@@nwhuckin7761 2-4 grams can do it for some..

[@fastdesires2852]

Interesting i found some that looked like these under some pines at the dunes

[@kathilopez-sadler9814]

A friend suggested I ask you about all the mushroom coffees out now. Which do you recommend, if any. Thank you!

[@The_Geezus]

The paralysis kind of effect from cyans is because they can rapidly deplete various chemicals/vitamins that are critical to neurotransmitter function and regeneration. You can mitigate the effects by making sure to take B12, Magnesium, Calcium, Zinc, and Amino Acids before your adventure. Pedialyte is a good idea, also. I have experienced the effect as being able to tense muscles but then having a delay when you try to relax them. The reverse can also happen. This makes things like walking very difficult if not impossible in the most severe instances.

[@brandonboulton2776]

Awesome 😎❤

[@flowercoal7382]

Awesome video! I love P. cyanescens so much. Any info on how potent western-European cyans are?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Not that I know of

[@billybbob18]

I've read that the Euro variety is weaker. The ones growing in Oregon are strong and abundant.

[@hunterbancroft290]

Why does Alan say Azurescens only grow at the Columbia river in this video? If you look at I naturalist they are all over the west coast and I have heard him say they can be found from the Quinalt Reservation down to Northern California.

[@rastabryan]

They can grow elsewhere but Alan is pointing out that they are endemic to that location.

[@mikeneidlinger8857]

I found a lot of Psilocybe Pelliculosa coming up in a State Park. My book said it had no poisonous lookalikes.

[@gabet7333]

I find woodlover paralysis is caused from your skin getting cold. I find getting warm helps.

[@loc.tim.from.hoquiam]

the one grasslands kind of looked like john's river in Grays Harbor? I use to pick there 20 years ago. I prefer azurescens and cyanescens now

[@loc.tim.from.hoquiam]

azurescens must not only grow by the columbia since i pick them in the dunes all along the washington coast up as far as the mouth of the Copalis river

[@GATMANRETURNS]

Does wlp happen to everyone or just a select few?

[@FinallyLivingPhotography]

Can you do a forage and cook on the scally ink cap

[@timothyanderson6512]

Abvoidiosis Idiata. Beautiful.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@timothyanderson6512 🤔?

[@timothyanderson6512]

​@@mushroomwonderland1At 18:50 tells a story of getting busted and naming the mushroom. I misspelled it though. ovoideocystidiata

[@pnwsmoke6758]

How do they stems feel on the galerina? I notice that cyans/azurescens have a very hardy strong stem, are galerina the same way, or sort of flimsy?

[@nevereverforever0010-uf9su]

his jaclet is dope

[@gravityjunkie47]

Man, I love the content but the blurry camera work really made certain sections, like the cyanescens section, hard to watch.

[@SketchybrainD]

One of the patches that used to grow mostly cyanescens got messed with and a bunch of sod was dumped there and now only has a couple cyans and a ton of gallerina margenata. I check regularly this time of year and last time I went they were mostly all gone like the cyans in past years. I’m nervous. I left a note on the fence warning that they are deadly and not magic.

[@breonnavanpatten9331]

@Alan - he said that azurescens only grow along the Columbia, but I've been finding them in Pacific City and Lincoln City. Is this abnormal?

[@DJKurdziolek]

Where the heck are you guys?

[@keegancrocker4587]

No mention of the rare but real Psilocybe cyanofibrilosa

[@Brandon-u1g6b]

I have 53 acres of timber land in grays harbor county in PNW. Some one please come and show me what to look for .

[@karmacharmer]

Hey Alan, could you help me identify

[@goodun2974]

Since psilocybe mushrooms can't legally be sent through the mail, but the spores can (they have no psilocybin content), is it possible to do DNA species-testing from just the spores?

[@djwhiteflour]

Absolutely!

[@DualitySingularity]

pleas upgrade to 1080 with your camera

[@ericsmith8996]

Is there anyone who has done studies on only the stunzii mushrooms I was doing of picking in the early 1980s and there seemed to be a lot of different types of stunzii I'm just wondering if anyone has super focused on those mushrooms and figured out if some of them were not stunzii I used to pick one type I called purple ringers because they were never that beautiful blue ring and looked a lot like the stunzii shone herein assuming most of these stunzii varieties are long since extinct I hope somone saved spores back then I did but did so on paper ! So as you can imagine ... so much for that idea had a lot of different types

[@chuggingee]

Blue ringers is all we did they seemed to always grow by churches weird right

[@nerobaal6655]

Mushrooms are dangerous. I’ve been rubbing on them and keeping them out in the open in large groups collecting and cataloging spore prints and I learned that’s pretty much dangerous. 😅

[@ArtichokeHunter]

i'm curious how you can get busted for having mushrooms that you discovered, like is the law worded in a way such that it includes things before they're named? then how do mycologists identify a new species without getting "busted" for having them?

[@rastabryan]

It’s the chemicals that are regulated, not a particular species.

[@ArtichokeHunter]

@rastabryan that makes sense but like when you first find it you're not gonna know if it has illegal chemicals or not?

[@kbrent9179]

@@ArtichokeHunteri guess dont take it 2 burning man first of all

[@wingnutbert9685]

I'd bet dude could have had Shiitake's and the cops would have busted him. They were may have been making assumptions, and fairly so, based heavily on the circumstances and method the mushrooms were being held. Mushrooms in your cooler with some burger patties, buns and condiments, at a campground vs mushrooms buried in the bottom of a knapsack, in a baggy, going into a festival. Context is everything. :)

[@Hector-vx5yc]

Hi Aaron. I down loaded a mushroom identification app on my iPhone. Are they fairly reliable for information? It has the ability to take a picture of the mushroom and information about the mushroom will pop up. Thank you for sharing Mr. Rockefeller with us. He had some really good information just like you do. Nicely done. From Mason County.👍🏿💯❤️

[@martinmix7464]

I've also got a mushroom identifier app, and found it to be fairly reliable, although it gives multiple potential results at times. I would never trust it for toxicity or edibility assessment, though!

[@robertwalker8479]

💖🤍🖤🤎💜💙💚🧡❤💛💓🤍🖤🤎💜💙💚🧡❤💛💗

[@hyperionsolomon8718]

Aaron, be careful. There was a live conversation with Dr Gordon, a mycologist. He said he can't talk about medicinal mushrooms, that have psychoactive properties, because they could take his videos down. If I remember correctly? He said he has a separate channel for that? Just looking out for you bro. I don't want to see them shut you down. ✌️

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Dr Gordon Walker?

[@hyperionsolomon8718]

@mushroomwonderland1 yes. During a live show a few weeks ago, he didn't want to cover it, he actively ignored me, Gordon didn't even want to say the word out loud. I asked him why he was ignoring, and that's when he explained he was worried about getting shut down. I felt very embarrassed, and bad for him simultaneously. I'd just check the T&C and be careful, that's all I'm saying. You're gaining a lot of traction and becoming increasingly popular. The more popular you become...the higher the probability that somebody's going to report something.

[@alidalavezzari4103]

Where can I find videos or informations on doses? I am an expert of holistic medicine, in my country, Italy, they are depenalizated from many years, but I understood their utility only reading comments on videos about how to grow edibles ones in the last weeks, I don't want to do "trips", I studied shamanism many years ago and 40% of shamans don't need to use substances to get in trance, I want heal effects. Thank you for all your videos, very helpful.

[@goaltotroll4241]

need a new camera man

[@dcfromthev]

You guys staged this right? Or did you really find all these in one day??

[@drewpknutz1410]

Im sure it was 1 day, remember these guys have been doing this for years and know exactly where to go this time of the year

[@calilangley9203]

I'm sure they have their spots where they have found them in previous years and can keep going back to them

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@dcfromthev This was filmed over the course of 3 days, it takes time to shoot all of these, but we could have went from one to the next successive patch in a row if we wanted to. But yeah, we have friends that help us out, show us places to bring our cameras. 😊✌️🍄💯

[@BushyHairedStranger]

@@mushroomwonderland1Paul S has a couple very nice P. Cyan patches/paths on his property.

[@callennon203]

How do I get on that group text? You know, so I can bring my camera and all.

[@Hector-vx5yc]

Hi Aaron!! FYI sent you an email using the email address in Patreon! Hoping you can help me out?!👍🏿💯❤️

[@63phillip]

How come you pronounce Psilocybe funny but pronounce it right when you add a IN on it as in Psilocybin.

[@MsRavenPerez]

They should stay in their 15 minute cities and leave the forest alone