Birth and death of a Lion's Mane mushroom

Six months ago we met the inspiring Mickey and Amy Pascoe from @littleacremushrooms in Brisbane - the start of a creative collaboration that is proving to keep Stephen and Catherine busy with time-lapses of cultivated fungi species. Here is a compile of some time-lapses of Lion's Mane (or Coral Tooth Fungus) Hericium coralloides, a popular edible mushroom. Time-lapse took close to three weeks.
Planet Fungi have a catalogue of over 300 fungi time-lapses 4K-7K.

[@fahaf]

Please can you include the Real time duration of the timelapse? So to get a notion on how long did all this process happended? Thanks! Always get a notification and take a little time to watch this beuties!!!

[@PlanetFungi]

In the text description now - nearly three weeks from first budding to completion of time-lapse.

[@LassetUnsSpielen]

i was worried it was real time

[@christianarmstrong2022]

@@LassetUnsSpielenI wish it was real time

[@Kenan-Z]

@@christianarmstrong2022 😳😳

[@Noizzed]

​@@LassetUnsSpielen If i see this growing besides me in a forest walk i'm running away and not looking back like i triggered the forest spirits or some shit

[@jeremysart]

It was a good year for fungi here in Michigan, US. Seen the largest lion's mane in my life backpacking up in Pigeon River. Thing was larger than my head. Also seen a puffball that was larger than a basketball.

[@LadyAmatsu]

I know the fungi are the main attraction of the videos, and this lions mane is amazing, but what I was equally memorized by was the movement of the moss. The moss made the log in the background look like it was breathing. I assume this was because of a day-night cycle?

[@PlanetFungi]

How observant of you and yes - day and night cycle - heat and cool cycle.

[@Chris_Goulet]

Looks like cracks in rock, and the amount of thermal expansion / contraction is very impressive!

[@stacyvolek3418]

I wasn’t even looking at the moss I was so mesmerized by the beautiful mushroom! I’ll go back and watch again! Thanks for sharing!❤

[@user-gs3id1vr6t]

Exactly what I was wondering too

[@xphlies58]

Nice job with the whole project! Fascinating what one fungi lives like, sssoooo gorgeous. I never want to walk in the forest again. I don't want to disturb their homes, their territory, nor them. I saw a fungi documentary of another individual who was tromping haphazardly through the forest and other fungi surrounding atmosphere. I was aghast! The nerve. I appreciate you and your team, your reverence. Thank you for yet another stunning vid of beautiful fungi.

[@JM-wr2fo]

Go take a walk in the forest, the fungi welcomes you ;)

[@PlanetFungi]

Thank you very much! - yes we try to have a policy of leave the forest the way you found it.

[@JM-wr2fo]

@@PlanetFungi I often go one step further and bring back some plastic that I find along the way. Amazing timelapse, thank you

[@invisibilianone6288]

They will continue to survive. Have you ever noticed, where elk and deer trail up, or down the side of a mountain/hill? You will often find mushrooms growing in proliferation along the disturbed area of the trail. Mushroom spores travel in many ways.🎯😎☕ I do endeavor to tread lightly

[@brandon9561]

Isn't it hericium erinaceus? Coralloides is a little more curlyish, crazy time laps! super cool!

[@PlanetFungi]

The spawn was provided by a mushroom cultivator who sell commercially and they are certain that current Australia ID is Hericium coralloides but of course with DNA testing these classifications do change from time to time.

[@aaargh3965]

It's definitely Hericium Erinaceus on video, not Coralloides, it's name is self-explanatory - looks like coral, but we see a "mane" on video. There are also other visually similar species of these Hericium shrooms, 17 in total listed on Wiki. Actually a whole new undiscovered microcosm of very useful medicinal and psychoactive mushrooms! 🍄

[@ReynaSingh]

Amazing. Nature is the greatest treasure

[@PlanetFungi]

Couldn't agree more!

[@renatezaphiriou8838]

So wonderful and in Germany very rare mushroom! Thanks for sharing!

[@PlanetFungi]

Thanks for visiting

[@renatezaphiriou8838]

@Smith Knudsen Thank you very much! I have no intention of buying any. Happy Sunday evening and a nice week!

[@PlanetFungi]

@@renatezaphiriou8838 Yes we've been a bit spammed - deleting now.

[@slaaayx]

Hello, I wanted to ask, in what state of Germany do you live? I wanted to find them in the wild aswell, but I do not have a reference on where they grow. Thanks.

[@AnkaSoul]

I have a sensation like after watching a ballet or opera. Stunning! Thank you so much for your passion and love.

[@mycrodexmushrooms]

Couldn't ask for a better time-lapse. Wow.

[@leenaright3949]

I found one of these growing in a heald wound of a tree last year in March. It was the size of a medium sized cabbage. I left some hoping it would grow back. Now, a year later, I discovered it has indeed grown back !

[@natureisallpowerful]

Fungi are mind blowing

[@stavrospapadimitriou7631]

Certainly if you eat the right ones.

[@Billbeaux]

Incredible footage and the music goes perfectly with it

[@PlanetFungi]

Thank you so much 😀

[@nancybusso6171]

Breathtakingly beautiful!!

[@bassybossy]

Amazing as always! The work and time that must have gone into making this is surely astounding. The credits are an often missed addition that is greatly appreciated as wel :)

[@marilynaicardi1860]

Lovely photography, such a beautiful living thing! Thank you.

[@halloweendancing]

This is my nw favorite channel!! I live in a city for college in the US and haven't been able to get out in nature very much, so your videos are so nice to put on. I came here from Fantastic Fungi!

[@ethericbliss23]

Whoa! What a beautiful shot!! BRAVO!!!

[@bobwilson7684]

I was missing a new video indeed, what you do is greatful Stephen, it is a gift to the world, so fascinating, thank you very much, keep it up

[@PlanetFungi]

Thank you so much for that lovely feedback.

[@Barnaclebeard]

Misleading title! Nothing was born, nothing died. It fruited, that is all!

[@uppityglivestockian]

Gorgeous. A compile? Great editing. I think it would help me and others to appreciate how much work you put into these labor of love videos if you'd include somewhere how much actual time was taken to end up with the final result. Many hours, minimum, I know, but just how many could give us some perspective. Gracias.

[@PlanetFungi]

Thank you so much for your kind comment. I have put the duration of the time-lapse in the text description now - nearly three weeks from first budding to completion of time-lapse. We had two cameras on it for a while to get the extreme close up and changed the position of the first camera to the second angle when we did that. So it is an edit of two camera angles and a second camera on close up.

[@uppityglivestockian]

@@PlanetFungi Over 500 hours. Time does fly when you're having fun, but often fun requires some work that's not always fun. Your work is much more appreciated knowing that actual number. Mil gracias. Paz y salud.

[@triton62674]

Hypnotic!

[@paulsto6516]

Majestic!

[@williamscoggin1509]

Yes, it would be nice to know how long it takes for one to mature instead of just watching this time lapse although the video was beautiful. Was it 2 days was it a week who knows?

[@PlanetFungi]

In the text description now - nearly three weeks from first budding to completion of time-lapse.

[@strepto42]

Superb... And every other Attenborough superlative I can think of ❤️

[@PlanetFungi]

Wow, thank you

[@Herping_with_Liam_and_Sean]

So amazing 🤩great work!

[@lufacarbon1260]

Beautiful mushroom and is a delicacy 🍄

[@rosaritamaria4414]

Who knew mushrooms could be so beautiful.

[@johnnycalories6500]

Yyyeeeaa that's what I'm talking about!!!!

[@philocybin]

Very nice timelapse! I believe though that this is Hericium erinaceus. H. coralloides (Coral tooth) looks different.

[@PlanetFungi]

Hi there - thanks for your comment. Nor sure where you are located and in your part of the world it may look like Hericium erinaceus but in Australia current scientific ID of this cultivated lions mane is Hericium coralloides. I have checked with the suppliers littleacre.com.au/products/lions-mane-grain-spawn-hericium-coralloides. However with more DNA testing these things do change from time to time.

[@gefginn3699]

Awesome. Beautiful Nature.

[@unfilteredfungi]

Stunning

[@PlanetFungi]

Thank you! 😊

[@molchmolchmolchmolch]

Could watch this all day. Thank you!

[@PlanetFungi]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@ZadakLeader]

Crazy stuff. Looks like Stalagtites

[@kimchi8022]

More heartwrenching and and inspiring than most movies tbh

[@KevinOnEarth_]

These are native in the US and are edible and tasty. Seafood like food flavor akin to crab or lobster when cooked.

[@MrAlice613]

I was hoping we’d get to see it deliquesce afterwards. Any chance of y’all making a timelapse in which we get to see the sporocarp decompose?

[@skoto8219]

Beautiful

[@eestaashottentotti2242]

Never thought, it would be so relaxing to watch a lifecycle of an all--consuming tentacle thing.

[@campbellpaul]

Extraordinarily beautiful

[@thecatjall7848]

Those little mushrooms growing at its side are very cute.

[@Tropicalpisces]

How relaxing to watch. Thank you. It made me wonderfully yawn.

[@bahar-ox1ln]

This is so angelic

[@keef78]

The way the moss seems to breath in time lapse.

[@dissolutevoid]

That looks delicious like noodles oh man a lions mane soup

[@bluedragon1200]

Gorgeous!!😊

[@Satya_deep]

Oh Nature....you amaze me everytime

[@Suitswonderland]

So why exactly was the NGF's found in the mycelium of this fungi banned in the EU? I was just told it was happening but no reasoning behind why and looking into the compounds present I never really came across any studies saying anything negative, what exactly was the reasoning behind having it not be useable in supplement products?

[@PlanetFungi]

Yes we are not up on that but perhaps someone else in this space can add to the conversation on this.

[@mesaeddie]

I have grown many great mushrooms of several types.It’s fun and delicious and they grow quite noticeably in just 24 hours.Just buy a kit and see for yourselves.

[@gabymeyer8003]

Oh wow!!!

[@StinginRogerr]

Holy shit

[@symbolsandsystems]

‘Would be interesting to have a real-time clock on screen.

[@PlanetFungi]

Nearly 3 weeks of timelapse sped up to 3x and 2x in places. Real time clock would be pretty tricky.

[@symbolsandsystems]

@@PlanetFungi a clock that just clicks off the hours?

[@SandiRose2008]

Loved it! Thank you!!!

[@PlanetFungi]

You are so welcome!

[@peterbl.6652]

Wow, just wow

[@PlanetFungi]

Thank you so much 😀

[@DownButNotOutYet]

Wow, 3 weeks, would not have thought it would last that long in the wild. EDIT : Now having watched the trailer for "Follow the rain" I see it's in studio, not in the wild.

[@TimsWildlife]

Nicely done. You can remove the flicker artefacts by a plugin called flicker free by digital anarchy. Unscrewing the lens slightly from the camera can also help, where you fix the aperture manually.

[@stratigraphymajor8196]

Fascinating 🍄🍄

[@NoExpert]

beautiful 😮👏👏👏

[@winheiMR]

Sehr schöne so seltene Pilze gesehen, noch in Zeitlupe, Klasse. Ich kenne solche Pilze nur aus Büchern.

[@robertstrup1907]

This is EPIC! I wonder, If I mean, was this grown outside? OR is the lighting artificial? Mainly I wonder how you achieved the constant lighting without flicker?? Thanks a lot :)

[@PlanetFungi]

Hi Robert, no, it was not done outside the whole time. Lapse is probably about two weeks long, so we do them in a controlled environment inside… Albeit a very damp muddy and rotting wood environment

[@pewp43]

Nice

[@pratyushabala9136]

Just beautiful

[@ZhongNanHai_01]

This is amazing！

[@daslolo]

timeframe?

[@PlanetFungi]

Nearly 3 weeks with a second camera on for some of the time for close ups.

[@daslolo]

fast growth!

[@SB-ns4nw]

So at what point exactly do we smoke it?

[@davidperkoski1132]

I thought lion’s mane is hericium erinaceus?

[@warhero-gz5qd]

Amazing

[@michaellautermilch9185]

Isnt this species incredibly deadly?

[@jack504]

It's the weeping willow of the shroom world

[@Amb3rjack]

I'm also getting honey monster vibes from this . . . .

[@williamwaters4506]

Is that Lion's Mane or Bear's Head Tooth?

[@KingsMom831]

Beautiful 😊

[@PlanetFungi]

Thank you so much 😀

[@VincePhoenix]

It's clearly a soul tree : pretty sure wew can hear our ancestors if we connect to it !

[@BobMuskFan]

It grows exactly like a brain

[@QuixoticiallyQuantum]

where was the deaths?

[@GigaCraft-420]

Crazy how a Mushroom can be born and die in less than 2 minutes

[@isabelagreber8645]

stunning spagetti.

[@mv8908]

Can't believe these same mushrooms people eat them and get their nervous system severely injured.

[@bromakara007]

One question, is this edible?

[@PlanetFungi]

Yes this is an edible species

[@bigsarge2085]

👍👍👍

[@FinnishArmy]

What is its purpose, why did it want to grow?

[@PlanetFungi]

I guess it is the same reason we grow. Organisms are programmed to reach maturity, reproduce and then die.

[@MatthewM575]

That is beautiful

[@ohdeergod]

Who was the first brave soul to see these and say “well, the others we tried killed Carl and Helen, maybe this one wont.”

[@guilhermecahu]

This is amazing but I was expecting to see its dearh until the end :/

[@ayeya-A]

It looks like a willow tree :3

[@Peter_Tissot]

That is the Alien Blob, not a fungi!

[@user-zy7vi1ev5r]

Does anybody know the name of this music?

[@PlanetFungi]

There is a music credit at end of video.

[@user-zy7vi1ev5r]

@@PlanetFungi oh great! Thx!

[@meowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww]

is it edible?? i wanna eat it so bad

[@killerisdead3775]

WELL now i'm sad and hungry thanks

[@Psycrovv]

It taste good in suip !

[@pillepolle3122]

WHERE DEATH??

[@Chiavaccio]

👏👏👏👏

[@GodisGreat...89]

Lions mane is called hericium Erinaceous n not hericium coralloides..u should correct the video

[@PlanetFungi]

In your part of the world that may be correct but in Australia current scientific ID of this cultivated lions mane is Hericium coralloides littleacre.com.au/products/lions-mane-grain-spawn-hericium-coralloides

[@tonymontana6328]

That's beautyfull

[@Ketchup_And_Rice]

sorry all I could think of when seeing the Lion's Mane is Oyster Sauce and Garlic

[@amelioravictoriadionyssia3323]

Crazy to me that these things have a language

[@NP7_16]

Finnaly

[@funguslicker]

nice

[@Parthzival]

You'll find little Avatar nearby these mushroom

[@robot7759]

No life in between?

[@myself3209]

Its like that tree from Avatar