Foraging Wild Mushrooms with a Mycologist- Sidnee Obersingleton

In this video Aaron Hilliard, VP of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society and Mushroom Wonderland creator, takes a walk into a beautiful forest in the Pacific Northwest with a mycologist from Eugene, OR- Sidnee Obersingleton. He runs a laboratory at the University of Oregon where he studies the fungal associations with leaf cutter ants, among other special interest projects. He is also on the leading edge of 'fluorescent microscopy,' a fairly new science. And he is great at mushroom identification, which you will see in this video.
If you are anyone in the mycological community you have surely heard his name thrown around, and he is quite popular in the Identification groups on Facebook.
I was honored to walk and find about a dozen species of mushrooms growing wild, and to get Sidnee to describe and talk about them all. We talk about everything from super common tree conchs to quite rare edible and medicinal delicacies like Reishi and Lions mane mushrooms.
Please come along into Mushroom Wonderland and be sure to subscribe for more videos just like this. Mush-Love!

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My last trip 5 months ago changed my life.

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[@naturallynorthwest9748]

It was such a treat to hear Sidnee speak at the meeting this month! This video is an epic extension of his knowledge. So epic you guys found a lion's mane!

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[@AlbertoMelappioni]

Great video! It is a pleasure to be able to see North American species and habitats. With Sidnee Obersingleton's explanations it's even better! 😉

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[@motiask]

This clip is awesome !!! I would the opportunity to hang with you both to forage. 👊👍👍👍

[@brandonfisher639]

learned a lot! great guest! greatest host! a great watch even though its a year old. these vids hold up well on the "shelf."

[@RTFosmark]

I love that you guys just stumbled on a beautiful lions mane on what sounded like a very busy trail. Great video!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Yeah we got lucky! Yeah that's typically not that busy of a trail. There happened to be a school class full of students walking behind us that day which was difficult because they are so loud!

[@alexduvall2007]

Hey man, I'm so happy for you guys that you found all of the cool things you did on this walk! This was another killer video Aaron 📹.

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Thank you for sharing. ✌🍄💖

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Awesome video guys.

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I also watched his first. An everyone since

[@InviableTrader]

I find it crazier and crazier the more I learn about fungus how much are edible. Can’t believe I grew up scared to eat or even touch most mushrooms now I look at them and my mouth waters.

[@lalitaob01]

i told you poeple eat Amanita . even Sidney . awsome videos . i never mis it

[@Caleman4639]

Aaron, what a great episode. It’s such a treat to have Sidnee and you in the same video. Thank you!

[@watsonrk1]

Find Lions Mane in Idaho on Douglas Fir trees during hunting season, always watching for the round white patches... the moving ones are Deer and Elk, the ones that don't are mushrooms!

[@missusjasus]

Great, informative show!

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Thanks for your interesting video Sidnee, kind regards from The Netherlands.

[@nekstprojekt]

Sidney OS was a great add to your guest list. Super informative. Thanks as always!

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I agree great guest mycologist. Hope to see him again.

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Super informative, really enjoyed this episode.

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One of your best episodes Aaron, great guest! I am an eater and a dyer.

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Amazing video! What a wonderful guest, would love to see more content like this!

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It was nice running into you this weekend. Hope you had fun.

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Loved this video with Sidnee, my favorite episode you have done thus far!! You and Sidnee are great together for giving great educational and entertaining information! I wish I could go to the International fungi and fiber symposium to see how they dye with mushrooms. Would also love to see more episodes with you and Sidnee. Thanks Aaron!

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Lovely contact keep it coming you’re the man!

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Such a great video! Thank you!

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Fantastic video! Thank you!

[@MaryUstas]

How awesome you two are together! enjoyable education for sure!

[@dcfromthev]

Learned a lot in this video! Great questions, great answers, perfect pace. Thank you guys

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Great video Aaron. Love seeing this channel blow up. I actually enjoy the more detailed analysis and inspection videos the most. I even like the seminars. Great vid.

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learnt quite a few things from this video, thanks for posting.

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Omg. It's almost January in Maine and cabin fever is kicking in. 🙃

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Informative!

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The name of this video should be Knowledge. Thank you.

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This was extra interesting, thanks.

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Awesome hunt

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I wonder if there's such a lack of Lobster Mushroom research because they're such a preferred edible that no one is willing to send it to the lab.

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Doubt that, there are plenty out there. But they are delicious!

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Information we need thanks for that I enjoyed it 🙂

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Great episode and thoroughly fascinating. I live on Vancouver Island, and wonder if I could expect to see the same species.

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Great video! I'm learning so much from you Aaron. Thanks so much.

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Great episode! I have been scared to taste guttate.Is it safe in most cases? What about bleeding tooth?

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Yes I would say safe in most cases, and the Bleeding tooth (Hydnellum peckii) has a peppery guttation. I lick one of those in, I think, last years 'December Foraging' video.

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Amanita Muscaria its edible?

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It's to help differentiate the species. There's not enough common names for all the mushrooms. It works fine with the utmost common of mushrooms, but when you want to dive deeper and know what those other strange mushrooms are, most of them don't have common names, and even if they did they would vary regionally, which would make them truly difficult to actually know what you had.

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@@mushroomwonderland1 ok thanks. That's what I'm talking about! A good explanation! Lots of channels don't even answer questions. So when someone discovers a species they get to name it. Well in the early days of discovery they could I'm not sure about now. Can you and wouldn't it be fun then to come up with the common name if one doesn't exist yet for that species?

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@@jellycream1964 yeah technically whoever publishes a good paper about a new species could give it a new name, provided somewhere deep in the literature there wasn't already a name given. If it turns out somebody had already described a species and named it in literature somewhere, the name reverts back to the old name. New names should be named after morphological features rather than after a person, because it really helps to describe the mushroom. As far as common names, you could assign a new common name to any mushroom, even a very popular mushroom, because there are really no rules about common names. It's just a matter of if it gets widely accepted or not. So give it a try!

[@assmaster420]

What a noisy place. Nothing like headin out to the woods to listen to city folk tainting nature.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Yeah that place is normally super quiet, but of course the day of filming there's a class down in the forest and a bunch of construction work going on nearby. That was difficult.

[@ronveach5117]

Wow! Very nice hunt for such dryness in this state! I have yet to find lions mane!

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So are they more potent dry, or does it matter

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Yeah they can be used for gut health, which can definitely make an impact on Crohn's disease.

[@missusjasus]

Great, informative show!