Introduction to Mycology

Mushrooms are some of the most fascinating organisms on the planet. But what are they exactly? Are they plants? No! In fact, they are extremely different from plants. They belong in their own kingdom, called the Fungi kingdom. What else is in there? Yeasts, molds, some other interesting things. But mushrooms are the most fascinating members, and there are a lot of them. What is their structure? How do they grow? How do they reproduce? What can we do with fungi? The study of these incredible organisms is called mycology, let's learn about it together!
Script by William Marcus
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[@christianharriot1578]

I’ve made a habit of taking pictures of cool-looking mushrooms. Then I found r/mushrooms. Now Professor Dave is pulling it all together and giving my new hobby meaning.

[@Poipounda007]

I do the same. They're awesome to look at and to eat!

[@whyareyoureadingmyuser9901]

Omg same

[@jazzcardashcam]

I made a habit of tasting little bits of mushrooms I found in the wild, some made me sick, some made me feel full and some gave me visions of weird shit. Was great, love it.

[@TheVeryHungrySingularity]

Pretty hype for this series

[@JewTube001]

pretty hype for the mushrooms

[@kingspud1983]

I'm with you. Just identifying them correctly is complex. There's so much to learn in this field.

[@WetDoggo]

Yes, it's really cool he puts that much work into educating people for free 👌

[@YouMockMe]

@@kingspud1983 Easier than plants, IMHO.

[@JoeSmith05]

@@YouMockMe agreed

[@LeiiShroom]

I've been falling in love with fungi ever since adopting them as an online theme, and this series on mycology is only enriching it. Having a name for the phenomena of mushroom blindness tickles me in particular, that it wasn't just me noticing them with greater frequency. You're a gem, Dave

[@beccag2758]

A Series of Unfortunate Events made me obsessed with mycology growing up. It’s nice to dust off that knowledge now

[@Enochulate88]

What book number was that

[@beccag2758]

@@Enochulate88 11, Grimm Grotto

[@absolutelynoone7171]

Can't wait for more of this fun guy explains fungi!

[@FranBunnyFFXII]

Thank you for saying Fungai instead of Funjee or Funjai. Drives me nuts when people do that. Fungus singular, Fungai plural.

[@phantorang]

It's like those who say "Hwhat" or "Hwhy" lol

[@racool911]

I thought it was Fungi lol

[@FranBunnyFFXII]

@@racool911 Im writing the phonetic part so that people understand what syllable sound i'm using. It's Fungi, pronounced Fun "Gai." English is fickle.

[@dumbboi7114]

Funjus sinjular, funjus plural

[@michaelggriffiths]

This is mushrooming out of proportion... But I understand that feeling of something driving you nuts..I had a steering wheel attached to my groin once...

[@Nivola1953]

This is one of my favourite channel, I like the clear and logic order of the presentations that makes it easier to follow and understand. These are the basic attributes of a good teacher/lecturer.

[@Mr.Plecostomus]

Why can’t this guy become my teacher, love the way the videos are made and the witty comebacks to haters and ignorant people, you gotta love him!

[@gevlovestennis5388]

Dave you're re-igniting my interest in science. Keep it up. You're awesome!

[@haeliemanuel150]

So excited I randomly found this channel, would you ever make a tutorial or educational video on growing mushrooms ?

[@joshpowell1813]

I am very excited to see what you do with this series, and glad to hear you encouraging folks to study mycology, and that you’re interested in it as well. I’m currently back in school majoring in biochemistry intending on specializing in mycology after I graduate and move on to grad school/PhD. As well, I currently work as an accountant for a conventional environmental remediation company, and am hoping to make some of the science of mycoremediation more practical from the business perspective.

[@ashleelarsen7765]

Hey josh, 1:11 mold

[@peterfred445]

My father was a commercial mushroom grower who started his business a couple years after 1926 when the head of the Department of Buckeye Labs at Penn State developed the method to commercially grow mushrooms.

[@backstreetfan2887]

That is neat

[@supdude9000]

Dave is awesome. Eager for the rest of the videos

[@crazyk187gtp]

I watched the intro video and I'm excited to see everything that you have to teach me. Thanks

[@rw10yearsago42]

Great video I love mycology and fungi they are really underrated thanks so much for making this!

[@joethompson132]

Looking forward to this series for sure

[@coboarasus]

Nice series, looking forward to it 😀

[@daltonr2830]

Fuck yeah, thanks for shedding light on our little buddies!

[@jimmywolfe4724]

Morel season, on the east coast, is about to begin and this is just great way to get hype for the hunt. Love your videos PhDave

[@Daniel-Trust]

👆👆best place to get good stuffs from...dude is 100 legit check him out

[@chavelinimejia4760]

Aaah I want to learn more with the series, I am excited to watch it ;)

[@dancingdodo2768]

My 3rd year research project was based around the computational optimisation of mycotoxins to generate collisional cross section data for use in ion mobility spectrometry

[@JewTube001]

that sounds mushroom af

[@dancingdodo2768]

This was a couple of years ago so can't remember for sure, but of the mycotoxins I studied (mainly the aflatoxins), I believe they were fungi found on crops rather than mushrooms per se

[@havehomesteadwilltravel]

Really enjoyed this, such interesting organisms... cheers!

[@veganrocker3732]

There is so much information in this video. There isn't mushroom for any more.

[@viv1593]

Nice

[@backstreetfan2887]

👍

[@willkrummeck]

Great intro, how did you plan the series? I was just starting out on mycology, I'm getting some agar plates soon to try grow things from the store. Would be great to have like an episode on what you need to get started or episodes on important protocols and methods as they become relevant. Do you have a format for taking lab notes?

[@benjaminvarah1937]

Amazing work Barcus

[@mayraospinoojeda4113]

Omg finally I love mycology ♥️🍄

[@santicruz4012]

Will you make a pharmacognosia series eventually! I’m so excited

[@mahdiharbe727]

Thanks, Prof., I really enjoy watching your lectures.

[@blackheartgaming6121]

I just saw a documentary on Netflix the other day about fungus and I fell in love with the documentary and I’m thinking now about going back to college to become a mycologist

[@MultiLalo1993]

I’m going back to school to major in mycology and botany. This is a great clip!!!

[@fungus4347]

Finally a proper video talking about the biology of my people!

[@Daniel-Trust]

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[@viv1593]

Hi Dave! Thanks for the great videos!!!!

[@Smashdreamm2]

I am eagerly awaiting your video on mycoses. There aren't very many good videos of those on KZbin!

[@satimica]

Really looking forward to this!

[@diklastern9090]

Love the videos! Why are there unavailable videos?

[@francescaa8331]

What a great topic. We studied mushrooms in biology class and they were just such an interesting and unusual form of life. Great choice. Fun pic, too.

[@glennpearson9348]

Super-cool stuff, Professor Dave! Really looking forward to this series. Let's get to it!

[@brittanyjacobson5199]

Awesome, I always wanted to learn more about fungi.

[@JewTube001]

sometimes the fungi learns more about you

[@mfrommi6593]

@@JewTube001 thats in communist russia

[@YouMockMe]

It's fun and EASY to grow!!! ...also, mushroom hunting gives you a good reason to get out into the woods :)

[@StrawberrySoul77]

Thank you!! Cool! I’d love to hear about “magic” mushrooms!!! As a bit of food trivia, in Beef Wellington, chopped mushrooms are coated all around .the tenderloin. Quite yummy.

[@MacStringer]

whoever wrote this is obviously some kind of genius

[@Lgnno10125]

Mycology here I come!

[@rambbler]

This has heavy forest dwelling goblin and witch energy and I love it

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[@imazombieee8949]

I was into amateur mycology a few years ago and had fails / successes. Realized I didn't have the time to keep up my research so I stopped. Recently getting back into it. Great vid... Im familiar w most of this but my buddy isn't . We use to run w abother cat on here but I can't remember the name. And I believe he's straight shroomery and Patreon now . So I subbed in case there are further vids about the process. But just wanted to comment and thank you for how in depth you go. Maybe I'll find the missing info to restart thru this channel!

[@imazombieee8949]

I got mad DNA or prints as well but lmk it's KZbin tbh so nice to meet u haha

[@kriss939]

This was a good intro to mushrooms

[@ashlie6134]

This was EVERYTHING!!!

[@casualsatanist5808]

Im *Lichen* this alot...

[@green4959]

I'm amazed that I've found this channel so interesting. The fact that I saw Professor Dave with Haircuts is really fascinating too.

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My order arrived today from @_high_trips on instagram.....He got shrooms, dmt a very easy and simple shipping method.Look

[@ProgressivePolitics]

Underrated. Liked and subscribed. This is quality education.

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My order arrived today from @_high_trips on instagram.....He got shrooms, dmt a very easy and simple shipping method.Look

[@davidthomas9190]

I have an endless supply of Amanita shrooms growing just a couple of miles from my house. I've got jars full of them from this years season.

[@rw10yearsago42]

Thats cool

[@JewTube001]

you should eat them

[@rw10yearsago42]

@@JewTube001 Nah I don't wanna cus my mom is allergic and Idk if I inherited that or no safer not to...

[@rw10yearsago42]

@@JewTube001 sorry I realized you were talking to them oopsie

[@JewTube001]

@@rw10yearsago42 the best things i've eaten were mushrooms

[@coachjennbailey9364]

Great resource for my homeschoolers on mycology! THank you!

[@abebrosiczki637]

That Bleeding Tooth Fungus triggers my phobia..

[@Daniel-Trust]

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[@bintalskinteh3869]

thank you so much I've really learnt a lot today on mycology

[@physicslab5787]

Nice information

[@josegabrielsantaollaya2371]

Hello Professor Dave, Thank you for your great videos. Question: I have a passion for Mycology, and I'm interested in growing mushrooms for medicinal, gourmet and cosmetological use, but there is no bachelor for that. Do you think I should study Chemical Pharmaceutical Biologist or Microbiology? Which of these bachelor options do you think will help me the most for these purposes?

[@Daniel-Trust]

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[@TDREXrx9]

Hey Professor Dave are you going to be covering Mycorrhizae and how they help plants, in the Mycology series or is there still more awesome Botany videos to come?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

perhaps i'll do one in botany!

[@Kombivar]

I was picking mushrooms since I was young toddler, matter of fact, I don't know anyone in central Europe who doesn't know at least 15 eatable, non-hallucinogenic species of mushrooms, as well as the others which should be strictly avoided , but honestly I never thought that they belong to the same family as yeast :D Well live and learn.

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Not the same family, but the same kingdom!

[@johnroydelacruz1433]

I appreciate your vid. Thanks

[@Vaiski25]

I've been picking mushrooms for as long as I can remember. Mostly cantharellus tubaeformis (latin name since I don't know what they're commonly called in English) and porcini (also chanterelles too but I rarely find them). A while ago I tried to expand my mushroom list by adding in some orange birch boletes. I didn't know that I have to cook them longer than normally because they can cause nausea. I vomited a lot the next night. Now I'm ready and excited to expand my mushroom list again. This time I'll do a lot more research about the mushrooms I pick before eating them. Just hoping for the snow to melt soon so I can journey to the forest.

[@sudaisafridi7590]

First time I see such a great professor who explain All science subjects like hacker.. This is unbelievable... Love from Pakistan ❤️❤️

[@sagaspace]

0:45 That blue flowers is saffron?

[@PunmasterSTP]

Mycology? More like "My, I'm so happy" you put this series together!

[@sagaspace]

Currently I have heard technology like mushroom leather. Is there is authentic research paper on it sir?

[@sagaspace]

@Anabel Lukason mykojakkie?

[@rachelcopeland496]

Ooh very nice! I'm impressed. I pop a few Lions Mane tablets a few times a week -- it seems to be working! Lol. Will you be lecturing on the Mycelium Network?

[@danmar007]

I've been anxiously waiting for this intro to Yourcology.

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Looking forward to this series.

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I get my from an online store, they got shroom, psychedelic and microdosing products well refined, also ships to anywhere

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He's on Instagram with the below handle.

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Mycopete

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Beautiful

[@lordofelectrons4513]

A interesting subject that can really grow on you.

[@lancebaileypoetry1938]

literally... grow on you! nice

[@davidsweeney111]

what about the psychedelic properties of certain alkaloids in fungi and their therapeutic potential?

[@abebrosiczki637]

Umm.. Fungi have more commonalities to animals than plants.. whaa'?? 👏👏

[@cosmicaug]

I take issue with the illustration used at 0:20. The photograph on the right seems to be a slime mold (Myxogastria, probably Fuligo septica) which is not a mold (nor currently even classified as part of Fungi).

[@bamboozi]

This is my first video watched in a few months since graduating college... WHAT HAPPENED TO THE HAIR?!!! Also very excited for mycology series!!!

[@hobbestheimaginary4205]

Profes Dave the mans

[@Daniel-Trust]

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[@ashlie6134]

Loved the ending lol

[@HighLordSythen]

Looking forward to it!

[@jameskim3915]

I get my from an online store, they got shroom, psychedelic and microdosing products well refined, also ships to anywhere

[@jameskim3915]

He's on Instagram with the below handle.

[@jameskim3915]

Mycopete

[@ashlie6134]

Thankyou

[@denbols]

they saved my life i am a cluster headhage patient Psilocybine mushrooms after 30 years can you enplane me more ??? wy mayby it works i think it is by schut down by som places of the branie en not the effect of dopamine like they say from serotin to dopemine

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[@sagaspace]

I am growing Mushrooms currently

[@bonefetcherbrimley7740]

Professor Dave looks like Moistcritical's dad. Good video!:D

[@DD_Dietriech]

If one wishes to delve deeper into mycology in a scholastic setting through which degree/classes would you recommend?

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Right before my exam yay

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My new interest: Mycology ♥️🍄

[@JormunB]

Bleeding Tooth made this take a surprisingly Bloodborne-esque turn! I'm in.

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How can a one person know as much we need a video explains that

[@dannygeit]

few as *cap*tivating as mushrooms, exquisite

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can you make one for paleontology

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[@Decco6306]

"pecular properties" I wonder what those could be :p

[@davidsigler9690]

My favorite subject in Botany......

[@henriparmentier7643]

When will u continue the series?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Will release roughly one per week.

[@henriparmentier7643]

@@ProfessorDaveExplains can u do one about the difference in lifecycles between the ascosmycota and basidiomycota

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Ah yes, mushroom science.

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Can you do a video of the pharmacology of psychadelics ?

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👀 would be an interesting video.

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[@bobwilson360]

Dude, you are the shit. Love your content.

[@bridgetconley7206]

I think your image for molds at ~30 seconds is actually a slime mold which is a Protozoan, not a fungi.

[@cosmicaug]

Came here to say that. Taxonomy is complicated & different schemes exist. In none of them would that slime mold be considered either a mold or a fungus.

[@sojkovec]

Mycelia are the real fun, they are the hive mind, fruiting bodies just a bait (tasty, yep ;). Better than Game of thrones. They fight each other all the time. Psilocybe genus deserves it's own channel.

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As a burgeoning mycohound I am super excited.

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MY PEOPLE

[@infinitivez]

YAAAAAAY! I wasn't sure if you'd hit on this, because so many science vids just lump it into a single chapter of "plants", and ... JUST YAAAAAY! MYCOLOGY!!!! *swoon* dang it, I do have one question I proposed a couple of years ago, that I never really got a great answer for. But can you think of any evolutionary pressure why some mushrooms evolved psilocybin? Is it along the lines of other fungi, who hijack insect brains? Is there a biochemical mechanic that would suggest it'd be effective for a particular reason, against certain insects?

[@ProfessorDaveExplains]

Oh I think it's just meant to act as a poison, like so many other natural chemical defenses.

[@pete1972]

0:20 Peculiar properties indeeed.

[@MrKhan-dc9gu]

Tnks Professor Dave for uploading this.Love from Pakistan 😍

[@JewTube001]

what kind of mushrooms do you have in pakistan

[@drewdurant3835]

I just finished building my lab!!

[@YouMockMe]

Overkill....I just use a few mason jars and a pot to boil it in. ...a glove box if you want, but I just clean the bathroom haha