January Mushroom Foraging

This is a video about what wild mushrooms are growing in the suburban conifer forest of the Pacific Northwest. Aaron Hilliard, creator of Mushroom Wonderland and VP of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society takes us on a walk in the woods of Western Washington to identify what kind of wild fungi is growing in January. This is not typically a time of year when a lot of wild mushrooms are growing, and given the recent snowfall it is surprising to see all the variety of mushies in the forest!
We come across Trichaptum abeitinum, a fan like conifer decomposer sometimes mistaken for the turkey tail mushroom. Hygrocybe miniata, a beautiful woodland waxcap that is cold weather resistant. The fairly popular Panther Cap, or Amanita pantheranoides. A common booger-like fungi growing all over the logs this time of the year- witches butter, or orange jelly fungus, Dacrymyces chrysospermus. The Deciever, Laccaria laccata. The dyers polypore, phaeolus schweinitzii. The late fall oyster, Sarcomyxa serotina. Trametes hirsuta, a turkey tail relative. Fomitopsis mounceae, the common red-belted conch. Inocybe pallidicremea, a common winter woodland mushroom here. Helvella vespertina, the black elfin saddle. As well as a couple more.
Please kick back and enjoy as we take you on a guided walk through Mushroom Wonderland!

[@michaelbullen1979]

So nice that others are out there as obsessed as I am 😁🍄🍄

[@kimprocarione5473]

Oh! That drawing your daughter made for you...a wonderful forever keepsake! Better than 1st finger paintings! ♥️

[@courtneyinsea]

I love eating elfin saddle! The texture is really good if you sautee with a little butter.

[@trav9902]

I agree. Found a group of 7 last week.

[@Tonaldo1469]

Never realized that we have truffles here in the PNW! Learn something new from every one of your vids.

[@navystreak]

Hey, I love your channel, despite being all the way in the UK, I find many of the same mushrooms this time of year in the same type of habitats. Hope your channel continues its success. Good luck!

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[@xgamerx360x]

I’ve never been to either the UK or the PNW, but I have heard that the climates are very similar!

[@HR-th6gb]

Lovin these videos all the way from Indiana, everyday I find myself rewatching and learning more and more from you, thanks for all the awesome videos!

[@GuardianAngelWatcher]

I always find the oyster shells too lol! So random! Anyhoo, thanks for continuing to share and educate!

[@lucasah8474]

Love these videos from Anderson Island

[@mgiant]

Greetings from Greece 🙂🍄🇬🇷. Lovely videos .

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[@karenbergmann209]

You are hilarious! Love your banter! Beauty ‘shrooms!

[@kimprocarione5473]

Love this video! People in Humboldt and Mendocino counties have been popping mushrooms all over. I think because it was so cold and now it's been sunny and warmer than before, they rhink it's spring. I haven't heard about anyone finding morels, yet. Still finding black trumpet, hedgehog and pig's ear. Some others, also. Plus the contour of the land makes it amazing what you can find.

[@carlajones2180]

I totally get running into people in "my woods". Ugh...Thanks again for sharing your knowledge. So interesting to see them in their various stages. Keep 'em coming.

[@janmiebebekian7862]

So happy to have found your channel. Thank you so much for taking us foraging with you.

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[@LawNerdAmber]

This new Mushroom hunter in Kitsap is really grateful for your content

[@benatchison6600]

Sweet, hope you score bigtime. Yes great video again!! Very informative!!!!!

[@sebastiandowd5866]

Thanks for another awesome video! My partner and I learn a lot about the mushrooms we see from your videos and really appreciate what you are doing. Peace and love from Victoria, BC.

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[@painmt651]

Washington State is a mycologists dream! I found three different kinds of psilocybe in a city park, in Seattle.

[@UPLINKUSA]

Thanks for taking us along on your walk. The Elfin Saddle was the highlight of the tour for me.🤔

[@user-sn8cr3hc1l]

Mycophile from King County here! Love your videos and your funny comments. The beer can and train tracks remarks had me laughing

[@Cletushandyman]

Hey my fellow pnw fam, I am south of ya in salem oregon, I just moved back and am relearning my mushrooms thru you. So yeah much thanks bro.

[@th8298]

You are Awesome aaron. I'm into all mushrooms. I love learning more every single day. With your help I will find my way. Thank you once again for your knowledge.

[@speakthetruth110]

Showing your geographical location is a great idea !

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[@stevejonas1153]

Great video Aaron, love seeing you out there at this time of year identifying so many species of mushrooms. I always learn something watching your videos. Thank you!!

[@finndre]

Just found your wonderful channel. Hello from Vancouver Island and thank you!

[@SkyfallLotus]

Very interesting seeing mushrooms out here even after the snow we got! I haven't been outside for a minute on the trails, so it's interesting to see that we're still having fungal "bloom" in the dead of Winter! Another great video - thank you, Aaron.

[@laurenguerin7601]

Thank you for this every video you post is a blessing!

[@mysticearth272]

I just got here in Coos Bay Oregon, and super excited to see what is here

[@Neeka1016]

I love love love your channel, I watch then re-watch most of your videos. Thank you for sporeing the knowledge of mushrooms. I appreciate your time. Thank you🙃🙂💚💜

[@naturallynorthwest9748]

LOL on the Disney princess comment :D I love the music in the last couple mins of the video. Kind of sounds like little forest gnome music and it goes perfect with the mushroom theme. I like seeing Gunnar running around and being part of the hunt. I always take my Staffy named Callie and she loves it too. Thanks for posting! I've been holed up with a back injury and watchin your videos is the next best thing to being able to get out myself! Also, the last KPMS meeting was super enjoyable. Pretty excited to hear Alan Rockefeller next time too!

[@serenitygoldenharp]

Thanks for another great vid Aaron! I just started Shrooming last Sept in Victoria, BC and am appreciating your guidance in what to look for by season. Super helpful! ❤️🍄❤️🍁

[@samstockand6766]

Love ur videos! Novice shroom lover from victoria bc here. Tks for the content. I am enjoying learning from u. ❤

[@jeffgardner9006]

Aaron - love watching your videos. My wife and I have become so hooked to foraging for mushrooms. We cut our teeth on chanterelles, COW, lobsters, cauliflowers. Now I gotta find some porcini and matsutakes next season. Thanks for your vid’s. We’re big fans

[@MayhemKeys]

You're are a Mycologist. Did you think there was a pathway to a degree in Mycology and that's how one becomes a Mycologist? Thank you for what you're doing studying and teaching.

[@thecunningkrugereffect]

Thank you for using maps and showing us the specifics!

[@audra7908]

I love your channel. I just want to learn a little bit more about the mushrooms in my area I live in Northeast Georgia. I found a cabbage head mushroom the other day.

[@brettsoutdoorexperience9422]

You guys still have a good bit of mushroom growth even in January. We don’t have too much going on here in GA. It dips down in the 20s at night lately and really stunted the growth. Sweet video. Cool to see mushrooms from the other side of USA.

[@stevenothanks7379]

Appreciate your videos a lot! I just started getting into foraging this year - learning lots with, certainly, a lot more to go. I'm in South Jersey - there's definitely a lot of mushrooms out there. I was able to find a couple mushrooms including hen of the woods - which tasted amazing! Unfortunately, I started my new hobby in late fall - didn't find much - looking forward to spring!

[@stevenothanks7379]

@Mycojoles via if for psyched stuff🥰🥰 I'm actually just interested in the food qualit part of eating mushrooms... But I appreciate it!

[@candykisses2901]

Thanks for picking up after the litter bugs! I've turned into a hermit too with all the social distancing! You sure do find some unique types of mushrooms. Peace!

[@lewisf9858]

Just discovered your channel. Wow I love it! Subbed!

[@Nicole-ww4lg]

I find panther caps in my neighborhood in Seattle from December to April. Found a flush of like 11 of them before that big snow in late December

[@rnkim2564]

THANK YOU!!! great video❤

[@Counterculturefamily]

Thanks for your videos man

[@jamessizemore7103]

I have a coonhound boarder collie mix so a how to train your dog to find truffles series would be awesome

[@Jack-wm1zq]

I think I found a panther cap here right outside mexico city a couple months ago! There's more overlap of mushroom species here and there than I expected.

[@veawbpun8514]

What an amazing location! Greetings from Kentucky

[@muelmanadventures708]

Stellar video again!! Thanks

[@jamessizemore7103]

I’m really glad I found your channel, I’ve been wanting to start foraging and your videos are super helpful for identifying

[@carliwashere1039]

i love to watch these and test my knowledge 🥰 i try to name them before you tell us what they are, and i love learning all the kinds i don’t know. i live in the PNW in the vancouver area and there’s quite a few here too even in January

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[@jodylarson]

I appreciate your videos and I completely agree with you on the pandemic feeding my hermit like personality. I have not been sad about that part of the last 2 years. I’m in central coastal range of Oregon and just started researching and forging for mushrooms. Your videos are amazing and so helpful. Thank you for doing what you do.

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Greetings from Port Townsend! I love your channel, amazing content. It's been fun watching your journey.

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[@np7809]

Very good video thank you But i gotta sleep now Have a nice day Mush-love. -Your fan

[@seanlewis3414]

great video!

[@PhaethXenMiro]

Not you in south kitsap smhhh. I will be going there tomorrow now haha!!

[@davidvaughn7752]

Luvin your winter series! Thanks for helping me up my game! Just north of you in Shohimish and so your content is relevant and fun!!! Great job! 👍 (Subbed)

[@sopheap4177]

Thanks for another great video! Totally agree with your comments about Covid! We're in the same boat over here.

[@caseymiller6173]

My favorite place in Washington!

[@emeraldchan7770]

I’m seeing a lot of the same mushrooms down here in Northern CA. It’s a little cool and wet out. No snow here. So it’s still fall/winter mushroom season! It’s going out here :)

[@FruitsOfLife001]

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[@tylerc7336]

The "tiny benign white one" at 26:09 could be a "brown staining cheese polypore"

[@toddmutchler7800]

So good Aaron loving these, good to see the pooch too!

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[@ethelkeating2517]

Keep up the good work Bruh!! Learned allot from all your informative videos man much love man you got a good ass channel especially for people just beginning thanks for your dedication dude

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thanks man! 🍄🙏👌🤙

[@anahatahatasatori1689]

Just subscribed, loved the content! I live in the high rockies so our foraging season only last about 3 months till it starts to freeze. I started last season with berries and other wild herbs and had so much fun. I stumbled upon so many Boletes during that time that I was too new to foraging to confidently gather. But after about a year now I'm kicking myself in the butt! I had so many tasty goodies in my reach. Next season with the help of great people like you, I'll be ready! Sorry for the wordy comment! lol

[@evanfuller3755]

Keep safe brother. I’m getting over Covid in Kitsap. pretty hard to avoid right now. Luckily it hasn’t been bad for my wife, two daughters, or puppy.

[@cristinatheiler2053]

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[@bobbysweeney5377]

Western Pa here. I see🧐 what looks to be🤔 snow 😒 and its Everywhere! Mushrooms are as alive as the people are enthusiastic.

[@ravenwhite5968]

Graet videos keep it up brother 🙏

[@scottmcneely1561]

FL Panhandle. We walk similarly.

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[@hodshonf]

new to the channel and mushrooms. I live in Redmond, WA and I would love to get started with searching out and identifying mushrooms in the PNW.

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[@billiverschoore2466]

Aaron, would you let us know if you've RE-IDENTIFIED the "Sarcomyxa serotina" at 25:30; me thinks the olive oyster is much thicker, like the other oysters, and has very neat gills, like the other oysters. Darkish fresh horse poo (dark grey x yellow) colour cap, short yellow/orangey stipe. I've been finding masses of them this January 2023 on random dead branches, almost always upright or leaning, within feet of rivulets near the bottom of stream valleys. Fresh mature ones, in uk, are around 3.5-4.0 inches wide.Whereas in your video i see a small floppy bracket with chanterelle-like ridges, or maybe, because it's an old specimen, more like T betulinum ridges except that stump doesn't look like a birch... Am thoroughly enjoying all your videos, thank you for all your work! 🌳🕊🍄

[@carlbrown8830]

A few years ago, while exploring an old logging road on the eastern slope of the Oregon coast range in the middle of Dec., I noticed that animals had been digging around the bases of second growth Douglas fir trees. Knowing that I was in a prime spot for truffles, I scratched around, but I think the critters cleaned them out. It was very damp and drizzly at the time and I noticed what appeared to be truffles growing right in the road in the mossy gravel. I picked a few to take home and check out. When I sliced them open, they had the same blue and white marbling that pictures of white truffles had, but all the info claimed they only grow underground. Unfortunately, I procrastinated on having them identified, and they got thrown out. Have you heard about truffles growing above ground, or were they some kind of toxic lookalike that usually turns out to be the case when I think I've scored.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Yeah sometimes they are upturned or seem to be growing just on the surface. What's the honestly the only way I've ever found them was just laying around. Like something else dug it up.

[@trav9902]

I got lucky and found a white one once. Looked around to see if it was dug up but did not find any clues. Upturned is a good description.

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[@debratracy1876]

I live in the city of Snohomish in the rural area. My yard is covered with mushrooms, it is a damp shady area. I hope I learn it they are edible through your show. Thank You

[@np7809]

My beloveed fungi loveeeer is back! Thanks for contentttt Oh i see this is a long video!

[@mitrawets]

Great description of featured mushrooms and video! I'll look for another vid in February- even if there are the same similar mushies showcased. Just putting the info and photos out is important. Thank you.

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The new dog will maybe show the old dog some new tricks . 🐕🐕😎👍🏻

[@np7809]

I know that you got all that muschrooms going on but when you are hungry out in forest please chomp on some blackberry leaf! It is kinda nice compering it to pine needles and its *EVERGREEN*

[@professormushroom5456]

You might be right about it being an amanita pantherina (panther cap) but if I saw that I would think it is an amanita exelsa as around where I live panther caps are a lot darker!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

We only have a handful of Amanita that grow here in the pnw, so I am pretty confident in my ID, but down south and out east y'all have a lot more beautiful amanitas!

[@professormushroom5456]

@@mushroomwonderland1 Ye, you're probably right because they change slightly place to place

[@joshroudebush5888]

Found a beautiful Lions mane J an 3 in the Ohio River Valley!!! Mush luv✨

[@tonybollinger3352]

Still getting bears tooth and lion's mane in southern Oregon been a great season for the mane this year! Thanks for the vid. got my first cauliflower mushroom yesterday it was a lil past prime definitely going back next season!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Awesome, I've never seen Hericium sp. growing up here. Not in W. Washington. Sounds like you have a pretty warm climate. 🍄🤙!

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@@mushroomwonderland1 This was my first year seeing it found 3

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@@tonybollinger3352 awesome good to know! I would love to find some bears tooth or lion's mane in the wild! That would make a good video.

[@jajerome78]

Crows will pick up oysters on the beach fly up really high and drop them to break open and eat :)

[@shadyp-zv3uf]

I have a jack Russell bird dog mix named Gunther (Gunner) Goliath...lol would love to have a blue tick hound as well 💙

[@ufc9166]

I always go mushroom hunting solo, I went a few days ago and walked my usual traiI, I got pretty deep into the woods when I heard something running off to my right… something didn’t feel right & I felt like I was being watched or something was following me…I’m always mushroom hunting solo in the summer when it’s warm and never get this weird Eerie feeling… first time winter mushroom hunting and I pretty much ended my day because I got so spooked i was only hunting for 30 minutes….It’s safe to say I won’t be doing any winter mushroom hunting this season

[@np7809]

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[@calliebrinkman828]

i feel like im listening to my own head lol. the foraging conditions look a lot more appealing than missouri right now. how long have you been identifying mushrooms? you are so knowledgeable! mush love lol

[@jessicacarter8925]

Yeah!

[@howardlashbrook1657]

I found an old caluiflower a couple days ago. I know how to find deer truffles. the crows carry those oysters and drop them to open them. stay safe

[@lailapoon8012]

would love to go mushroom hunt with you !

[@honeyvitagliano3227]

Yes a coon hound ! I’m so excited to meet the future addition to your family 💞🍄🙏🏻 Aso, the oysters and fish bones are from bears and birds ☺️ Lastly, I’ve only found tiny elven saddles in Colorado and I’ve never found any as large as you did, is there anyway you could go over the key identifiers in ones that are that large and oddly shaped? I would have never guessed that was the elven saddle given it’s shape and size As always,thank you Aaron and great video 🙏🏻🍄💞

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[@beritschroeder5619]

I've seen charts that suggest that we should be able to find COW mushrooms here in PNW in the winter but you are saying not so, correct? I'm such a novice at this that I personally have no idea. And now I'm a bit confused. What is your experience, Aaron? When is the best time to find them?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Yeah I don't know where that chart came from but not in my experience. They're usually done by the end of October. I would love to be proven wrong but here in western Washington they seem to like summer and early autumn.

[@trav9902]

Found one in mid/early December but it was past due. That was in Puyallup. Not too far out of the window but I was surprised to see it.

[@silastimes6288]

Alot of helvella and turkytail here in the bay area found a bunch of Russala in my backyard

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Uhh ok

[@BobbyParker784]

Those elf Saddles look like what you do when you melt wax into water to make a candle

[@EthanThomas33]

Surprised to see panthers this time of year, send them to me?

[@joshmallette2266]

Can you call yourself a non-degreed mycologist. A degree has value so does experience. I really appreciate your knowledge and communication skills.

[@TinaHagedorn]

What is a yummy mushroom for a winter beef roast that can be found in January?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Hmm..depends on where you are. I would say hedgehog or winter chanterelle..both winter mushrooms and delicious!

[@TinaHagedorn]

Mushroom Wonderland. Near Gig. We may go look for winter chantrells today.

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[@timmynormand8082]

Like your sence of humor ( I turned into a giant ). So I have one too. I don’t go by names of mushrooms. I go by color to eat them. Quote. If there white blue are brown go ahead an gobble them down . Now if they’re green pink or red. It’s better to eat meat instead . Thanks bro. Thumbs up for your awesome channel

[@mushroomwonderland1]

That is a good sense of humor because that is wildly incorrect and dangerous! Haha, white and brown are the colors of the world's most deadly mushrooms!!!🤦🤦🤦 Thanks for watching 🍄🤙

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