Spring Mushroom Foraging- Identifying Wild Mushrooms in Spring!

In this video Mushroom Wonderland creator and vice president of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society takes you on a journey into the forests of the Pacific Northwest of the United States to see what mushrooms are popping up this time of year. The temperature is just right for a bunch of new and interesting fungi to pop up from a winter slumber including Agrocybe, Morels, Gyromitras, Marasmiellus, Deer Truffles, Blue/green elf cups, and many more.
Not only see what these mushrooms look like in their natural habitat, dbut learn some interesting facts about them, and get an idea of how to pronounce the scientific latin names.
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[@judywooten5055]

Thanks, really enjoy the seasonal forays of PNW mushrooms. Keep the videos coming!

[@terrywagner8569]

awesome video

[@charleswonderling521]

Great show. Also loved the blue wood. Thanks for the great info.

[@rickfawyers6808]

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[@questingroot]

Those Morels were looking SUPREME!

[@rickfawyers6808]

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[@kimmiemamatomany6226]

Great video, loved the whole of it. Thanks so much. You are a delight!

[@JulianJP21]

Another awesome vid my friend 🤙🤙

[@cakejunkiexo]

I used to live in PO, love Kitsap! Currently I hike on 95 acres of old conifer/big leaf maple forest near Snoqualmie. Soooo much opportunity for foraging in those woods. I’ve encountered morels, loads of coral, turkey tails, oysters, etc. thanks for the vids. They help me know where to even start in my field guide with IDs. About to take my pups up into the woods and see what we can find. Thanks for the education!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Right on, thank you for the comment and I'm glad to have you aboard!

[@emeraldchan7770]

Thanks Aaron! Love the music here

[@KristyLeeVlogs]

Nice blue wood! I love the music choices for this video, reminds me of old cartoons and goes along with your channel name.

[@naturallynorthwest9748]

Definitely had the Saturday morning cartoon vibe! Love it.

[@angelarae]

Looks similar to the edible Elf Saddle!

[@happyzach]

earned a like from the intro alone!

[@floridanick]

Nice

[@Angel-fs6zl]

I’m new to fungus and I’ve gotta say it’s pretty entertaining watching your videos!

[@mitrawets]

Good Springtime video! Thank you for sharing.

[@danmaiers3451]

Great video today. It has been super cold on the east side of the State. Looking forward to getting out soon around Spokane. Keep up the great videos. 🍄

[@martinginsburg7222]

Very pro! My only complaint is you do such a great job on filming, on music, on info, on edits that I feel like I did my walk without walking! Really amazing and thank you...

[@ryanhudson3281]

I still bring a book, but easier to watch your videos to help me identify species. Keep it up..thanks

[@GnarGreen]

I’ve been using that apps to identify. There pretty spot on.

[@positivevibezonly5611]

I bring a book also

[@naturallynorthwest9748]

Gunnar's face at 10:04 :D lmao. Love the music and you got some incredible shots too!

[@thefattening1307]

Nice finds mush love

[@deannaforseth8469]

What a lovely dog companion!

[@jerryviall6494]

Great Video, i apologize if i didn't click like on other videos. I stream your videos in the background while working.

[@nevi108]

Very helpful for IDing local mushrooms 🍄 Thanks!

[@kevinmasyon2843]

Love um.keep it up.

[@HR-th6gb]

So excited to see the rest of this I couldn’t wait to comment how thankful I am for all of your shared knowledge!

[@cindyjones520]

Same here! Thank you!

[@timmynormand8082]

Thank you bro from the south

[@shaunagrylls5700]

Really enjoy your mushroom adventures appreciate your in delta knowledge Thank you my friend 🐾

[@lovethemack]

again, really good content, visually fun, and just the right amount of info for newer folk like me, thanks!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thank you!! Glad you enjoy! 🍄🍄🤙🤙

[@tblazy3463]

Me and my daughter just found our 1st false morels this year we were excites to see them but wished they were real morels! 😁

[@seanskates]

I love your videos so much.

[@michaelkozak7295]

Your editing skills are getting much better as time goes by. Thank you for your hard work, and as always keep up thr fine work. Always looking forward to the next your next adventure in the woods

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thank you🤙🍄

[@Kira-up5lw]

My mother is currently out near Seattle and I'm a bit disapointed that we didn't have the means to fly me out there to Washington as well. I would've loved to take a look at the forests that you often find these amazing fungi in! Here in the Appalachia it's been too cold for any good mushrooms to pop up yet. Still waiting for the Mayapples to pop up as a sign for the Morels!

[@kimprocarione5473]

Thank you! Some very interesting finds! That big brain looking one was very cool. I'm glad I now know to stay away from it! Lol!

[@golden7893]

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[@plantbasedbarb5708]

Thank you Aaron for the informative and entertaining video, I thoroughly enjoyed watching and learning to help identify my finds here in my yard on the Kitsap Peninsula.

[@katherinedesmarais4673]

Just stumbled on this channel and so happy I did! My only regret is that I live in Eastern Canada where the season is short, and I have yet to relocate to the PNW.

[@golden7893]

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[@paulgroth3345]

How about a microscope lens for your camera so we can really see the underside of some of the turkey tail and other such mushrooms. Love your work I would tune into this just to hear the intro what a beautiful voice that says welcome to mushroom Wonderland

[@jakelooter5139]

you can see the undersides well enough at regular magnification. honestly I cant see any benefit to having 400 or 1000 X on any streamings (not sure if you know how hard this would be to do).

[@somanyfountains]

You are a few weeks ahead of us in Michigan, great job! Your video work was awesome, great shots and zooming! I have been exploring gyrometria species, brunea and korfi in particular, not much growing yet here, but soon!

[@karenbergmann209]

Beautiful Forest! Cool mushrooms! Fun music!

[@nessao3396]

Very educational episode!! Thanks!

[@miseenplacid5626]

Dope video .. excited I’ve stumbled across this channel. I’m on Vancouver island and I’m determined to find a morel or two this year!

[@jakelooter5139]

you have way better species there than morels

[@Cliffwalkerrockhounding]

Oh Hey! I would not have even left a message, but you answered a question for me. I often find the blue wood and wondered deep down about it. Thanks!

[@HiddenChin]

Thank you for the content.

[@Nicole-ww4lg]

I found some mini bird's nest fungi and a few more panther caps in my known panther cap patch this week along with some LBMs I can't identify

[@spokaneman20]

Mush love!

[@garywaters6356]

Great year ahead

[@zashishh]

Thanks man

[@ravesandcurry3893]

Great video! I've been watching for a few months now and always enjoy the content. The Morchella specimen you collected had the most beautiful cap structure, do you now what word is used in mycology to describe it? I think its strange how the shaggy inkcap (Coprinus comatus) was moved into the Agaricaceae family from the Psathyrellaceae, despite the fact it deliquesces just like other inkcaps?! Looking forward to more spring foraging videos and hopefully a greater diversity and abundance of mushrooms to behold!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I'm not sure of how to describe that morel except for beautiful. Whatever species that is growing in that patch of forest is gorgeous. But pretty rare. I don't find them often. And yeah it is weird about everything else being moved out of Coprinus, except for C.comatus.. but I can kind of see how it would be in the Agaricaceae because the girls on younger specimens are pink, up until the time that they turn to ink. But yeah that's interesting. Thanks for watching! 🤙🍄

[@dalesteiner150]

EXCELLENT...............!!!!!!!!!!

[@golden7893]

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[@infinitemidnightghostmourner]

💙Mushrooms💙 I don't know if you remember when I commented last about me not being able to hunt for mushrooms, but my doctor told me yesterday he highly suspects that I have fibromyalgia, so that explains a lot. Continuing to watch and live vicariously through you, and hoping one day I can at least go out for a little bit to look for some mushrooms!

[@jakelooter5139]

I would suggest learning the history behind the "allopathic medical system" modern day doctors are really just middle men for pharma and do not have your best interests healthwise more or less or at least their job and the laws they have to abide by to the FDA limit their treatment options of you to poisonous ones devised by the FDA to kill you off. if you have an iflammatory condition, instead of like most idiots doing nothing, do some research and find out what the inflammatory factors in your diet/toxins exposure are and eliminate them. there is no reason to stay in a diseased state it is so easy to clean up your diet and remove toxins such as poisonous air/shower/laundry products and return to a normal healthy state. humans were NOT designed nor did we evolve to stay diseased long term that ONLY serves the medical system and these scumbags we have been propagandized into calling "doctors" and the system they represent: for profit patentable chemical synthetic medicine sold to idiots to mitigate a coinstantly diseased state long term

[@watsonrk1]

Great video... being from Idaho, we eat brains every spring, never knew.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Are you thinking of the orange relative, Gyromitra montana? People pretty commonly eat those ones but not so much with escalanta.

[@watsonrk1]

The one you show is really dark, ours are more orangish.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@watsonrk1 yeah it's probably a different species. We call that the snow bank morrell, or calf brain, look up Gyromitra montana on Google and that's probably what you're eating. It's a different species from the one in this video.

[@watsonrk1]

Thank you sir.. That is exactly what it is. Excellent flavor, sliced like a beefsteak and egg/breadcrum fried. Actually heading to Lewiston this weekend to if they are out. Like the morel, they love burns.

[@fattymcbastard6536]

My buddy dug up a couple deer truffles last fall while we were out hunting pines... at least I'm pretty sure that's what they were. Do they darken and harden by fall?

[@David-br4cr]

nice vi bruh

[@carlbrown8830]

I grew up in the North Idaho panhandle in the 60's where gathering food in the wild was a weekend pastime. In the spring, we would scour the woods for morels and believe it or not, brain (false morels) mushrooms. We would pick gallons of them, and freeze them to use all year. It was common knowledge which mushrooms were edible, and everybody gathered false morels. They had a stronger flavor than morels and in my opinion, tastier. When I moved to Oregon and found out they were considered toxic, I was flabbergasted. Maybe they have a subspecies in the panhandle that isn't toxic, as I have never heard of anybody getting sick from them. My dad had eaten them for decades and is 85 and still kicking. As a matter of fact, he still cuts his 10 cords of firewood every year.

[@wh0752]

wow, interesting. Similar story here, i ate them many times and granny told me where to find them this year. I have a few of them now drying and clicked on this video out of curiosity. Now i think i'll toss them away lol

[@carlbrown8830]

@@wh0752 Yeah, as soon as I found out I quit picking them, even though I find them everywhere. I just wish I could find some morels! Always thought all coral mushrooms were safe, but found out only a couple of strains are.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

So there are species of Gyromitra that are collected and eaten pretty commonly around the world, the old taxon would call them Gyromitra gigas (around the pnw G. montana) and is known most commonly as "calf brain" or "snowbank morel." They are typically more orange. Said to be a decent edible when cooked well, although they also contain amounts of Gyromitrin, but not nearly as much as G. esculenta. Maybe that is what you're thinking of? I've picked them and eaten them and they're good. There was a recent talk given on the Oregon mycological Society about eating Gyromitra actually causing long-term effects like ALS, Lou Gehrig's disease and Parkinson's. It's an ongoing study being conducted by professors at Oregon Health and Science University. The study, however, did not specify which species they suspected. I would personally suspect to that it is G. esculenta. There are known cases of deaths occurring after people eating G. esculenta.

[@carlbrown8830]

@@mushroomwonderland1 Thanks for the clarification - very informative. It did seem that they were lighter in color than here in Oregon. Glad I didn't eat any here! They were a spring staple in my small home town where people lived to a ripe old age eating healthy and working hard. Most succumbed to their Lucky Strikes and Chesterfield Kings. I haven't really seen much Parkinson's or dementia. My Dad is sharp as a tack.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

@@carlbrown8830 they also grow around here. We often find them while Morel picking just east of the divide of the Cascade range. The snow bank morel (G. montana) definitely has a lighter color look than these deep maroon colored G. esculenta. I think they can even look like pastries to some extent. A lot of people pick the and eat them. 🤙🍄

[@timimoore4631]

We are close by and would love to go on a foray with you

[@angelbogart539]

Great content! New fan✌

[@golden7893]

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[@GnarGreen]

Hey man. Cool channel. I live In Sandpoint Idaho and I find myself searching for mushrooms all the time in my woods with my Springer Spaniel. I really want to further my knowledge this year. I found a ton of Aniseed mushrooms last year but didn’t have the guts to eat any. Lol My question is do you ever worry about your dog eating toxic mushrooms while your hunting?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Hey there, beautiful area you live in. No I'm not too worried about him eating the mushrooms. He's been exposed to them his whole life, I even tried to point them out to him hoping that maybe he will help me to find them but he really has zero interest in them. I think his instincts are pretty sharp when it comes to not eating them. East carnivorous by nature although he does like to chew on a little grass.

[@GnarGreen]

@@mushroomwonderland1 My pup is pretty interested in them. And he kind of grew with my hobby. He’s a yr and 3 months now. When he was a baby he got into afew russulas that made him drool a ton. But I’m pretty sure hes smart enough not to get into toxic ones. Just wanted to check.

[@rickfawyers6808]

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[@jakelooter5139]

@@GnarGreen it isnt a risk factor the LDL the rarity of fatally toxic species the innate toxic determining abilities of animals it just isnt ever going to happen long term experienced hunter here

[@GnarGreen]

@@jakelooter5139 thank you

[@overratedprogrammer]

Morels are supposed to be hollow, correct?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

That's true!

[@tylerg6241]

comment for the algorithm

[@KevinsDisobedience]

I found a similar mushroom to the false morel the other day. Was attached to decaying wood. Was lighter in color. Is it the same thing, or is it what they call a brain mushroom. I know pics would help, but can’t do that here. Thanks

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Yeah I definitely hard to say without pictures. But pretty rare for any of these to be growing directly off of wood. Maybe look up Gyromitra montana, those are commonly eaten. More orange and often bigger.

[@tinman00]

Looks like banner Forest

[@np7809]

Sorry for being late Great video but it doesent translate to poland very well.. 🍄❤

[@michelleburkholder2547]

I highly recommend joining a local mycological society.

[@ASMRGRATITUDE]

I've learned over the years that quite a few mushrooms contain rocket fuel. Haha. Any day now, Elon Musk is going to be growing mushrooms to harvest for his next space adventure.

[@christopherdunn9013]

You sound a little scripted in this video, which I haven't noticed before. Great video though

[@jakelooter5139]

thats because he was reading a script from the world economic forum. damn globalist mushroom videos!

[@marianoart6840]

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[@marianoart6840]

She’s on Instagram.