The Complexities of Agaricus

This video is a slightly longer run through of the things to look out for when trying to identify your Agaricus mushrooms to Species, and how difficult it can be.!
Further Agaricus species video can be found here
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[@jmselt]

I never felt confident to touch this family of mushroom but this video has helped with the check list to identify

[@Songguy1985]

Classic British weather. Video starts with beautiful sunshine and twenty minutes later, pisssing wi'h rain.

[@raymondspada4684]

I picked a "Horse Mushroom" off of a church lawn - it had the characteristic aniseed smell and pink - cream gills. No bright yellow stains - I ate it in my morning omelette a week ago !

[@jonbarker8764]

Excellent video many thanks!

[@klclark525]

Very thorough, helpful information for the forager! Thank you!

[@ChrisJB]

Brilliant this. For years I thought I was picking macro mushrooms in my local moor-edge pasture and thanks to your films I recently decided they are in fact, probably horse mushrooms....cog-wheel, almond/aniseed smell, etc. Watching your deliberations here is relatable to how I altered my IDs. 👍

[@DirtyLesion]

The agarics have EVERYWHERE in Liverpool this year, its been fantastic, love the content, keep it comin!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Love your channel. You're the OG🍄❤️ mush love

[@WildFoodUK1]

Many thanx :)

[@adnanalshboulvarieties]

Great team work , nice explanation from experts , and its very important for people to know that mushrooms world is complex but beautiful. Big thanks to all of you

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :)

[@clairehoneywell1471]

Thank you, I just picked some of these today and are about to cook them. I last picked them as a child 50 years ago and am very grateful for the confirmation that my instincts were right. Incidentally I found them on the edge of an inner city graveyard xx

[@WildFoodUK1]

We find a lot in graveyards :)

[@SU-452]

excellent as ever

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx :)

[@johngarcia8871]

So helpful. Thanks. 😊

[@Iodine_53]

What a good video! So informative

[@graemedevine9651]

Thanks I was just examining a cluster of mushrooms and I noticed a slight yellow just like those, I'm going back to get some.

[@purestilton]

Absolutely love what you guys do. Always helpful and a pleasure to watch. Thank you

[@WildFoodUK1]

Thanx, You're welcome :)

[@e.s.lavall9219]

Staining looks pale brownish yellow to me. Thanks for this video, agaricus is one genus I'm not very confident foraging for but I feel better knowing I don't have to know what it is to know if it's edible or not

[@AdamsWorlds]

Thanks for another video guys! Really do need to book a tour at some point with you guys.

[@natureisallpowerful]

The maggots are beating me this year 😮

[@Kiltoonie]

I spotted this as horse in 2 seconds, the rest is entertaining.

[@TheAwakenedBraveChannel]

Very informative video, thanks.

[@MarkyBigSmoke]

Fascinating! Thank you

[@Silikone]

You saved me from consuming a yellow stainer.

[@WildFoodUK1]

Glad to hear it :)

[@alancooke1131]

Have had a great crop from a field behind the house.

[@OhMySolberg]

Just had this mushroom in the jar for 12 hours after a unsuccessful 8hour dehydrate and the most incredible cherry blossom aroma coming from these.

[@alexis1156]

Recently i found some agaricus campestris. People undervalue agaricus because it's easily cultivated. But it's an excellent mushroom. The fact that it's cultivated doesn't detract from it's actual value as a mushroom. Just like pioppini.

[@WondrousWorldsYT]

I've seen many Agaricus mushrooms but are not sure how to ID them. This is good info, it helps.

[@julianmarsh7993]

Another fantastic, please, please, please can you do, the final, utter, in depth no doubt about it that no one else can do on the FRC.....Pretty please. xxx

[@WildFoodUK1]

Here's an old vid I did on them :) www.wildfooduk.com/mushroom-guide/fairy-ring-champignons/

[@imanderdumme8706]

Hello Imam hossein be with you ❤️

[@PapaOutdoors238]

Throughly enjoyed your precise information on these mushrooms. Very pleased. Question: in a so-called fairy ring, are the mushrooms all the same or is there different mushrooms that make up the ring. Thank you so much.

[@queenielouweekly3160]

They are the same kind of mushroom.

[@coldeb8911]

But as the old foragers saying goes “If in the slightest doubt, leave it out”… Thats why I only ever do my mushroom foraging in supermarkets, so many are similar and if even the experts occasionally have to consult each other, and practically often need to do a minute autopsy on some of them to decide if they are a poisonous variant or not, thats enough for me to go to Tesco’s instead tbh…but I am absolutely fascinated by this subject, especially the poisonous ones 🤣

[@tknoodle]

Ace video, thanks ! I've been trawling through the identification vids for a while now... On this one, I'm trying to make notes and rewatching... but.... At the start of the video you say you can both clearly see it's an agaricus, but I'm not sure where genus identification ends and safety identification begins.... from what I've noted: [ground dwelling] + [no volva] + [pink or brown gills] + [pendulous skirt] ==> Agaricus Is the genus confirmed, for UK environments, with those four traits ? Do we have to worry about any other features like cap/stipe colours/textures to identify genus ? And after that, we can starting doing : - bruising tests (red automatically is safe) - if it smells OK, AND there's no yellow, then it's OK ? (are there any that fail to bruise yellow due to age and that that smell nice, but are doubtful?) Is that summing it up correctly? Thanks for these !

[@balbalaroche2652]

Great information. Thank you. Do agaricus exist in a pale yellow/pumpkin color? They don't stain,they grew on a grassy landscape, and they have a skirt. The stipe has the color of the cap and the gills and spores are light brown. Thank you from n.y.

[@Pilzmaxe]

They say Agaricus Augustus smells like almond or marzipane but to me it smells 100% anis. Like the chinese dish "hong shao rou".

[@navystreak]

I'm a chemist in the fragrance industry. Perhaps the chemical you are thinking about is benzaldehyde?

[@WildFoodUK1]

I think that's what Kerry mentioned. Will check with her.

[@petemc808]

I found quite a few of these today. Any cooking ideas for this giant mushroom?

[@natureisallpowerful]

Garlic butter on toast. Youre welcome 👍

[@WildFoodUK1]

Use like normal mushrooms but they are tastier so just fried with butter they are really good.

[@steammachine3061]

Ahhhh. I always wondered why, on occasion, I get an almond scent from a horse mushroom. Very rarely, but it has thrown me on occasion. Iv paused the vid so my next question may already be answered. But would the Prince have the same chemicals, but often, the higher concentration of that would account for its very almondy scent? Scent can be a funny thing to explain as well. Often the word mealy is used and I'm like "not a clue what that smells like" but like st George's what someone explains as mealy' I would give a good sniff and think it smells like the interior of a shoe shop. For other people, they've mentioned a smell of something a bit ruder, lol

[@WildFoodUK1]

Yes the prince has the same chemicals I believe, and for the St Georges mushroom we say sawdusty, but I think the best off the cuff description I've heard is that they smell like the bit of an envelope you lick to stick it down, that was from Lindsey in the office when she first had a sniff of one :)

[@Will0wFire]

When smelling mushrooms, my first thing is, does it smell good? If not, then i discard ths mushroom instantly. If it smells good, then if im not sure what im looking at, then I'll take home and investigate. But never eat first time. A bit simplistic, but i find smell is so subjective. And mine isn't as keen as it was before i got covid. 😢

[@WildFoodUK1]

I'm sure you know but for other people reading the comments. This only really applies to the Agaricus genus and is not a good test for other potentially toxic mushrooms.

[@Will0wFire]

@WildFoodUK1 Of course. I've been foraging since I was a child, and in a way im the worst kind of forager because I go based on memory and what I was taught as a child. So I've learned so much more from your channel, and I'm very grateful for your videos!!

[@j.h.6672]

By the way, the best way to distinguish these is to bite a little bit, chew, and spit it out completely. I'm not joking. If it's poisened you'll get a little phenol poisoning which is not dangerous. You'll get a bit high but at the same time there will be change in the heart rhythm. It'll last for 3-4 hours. Also, there might develop even disgust at these mushrooms even on smell.

[@daviddunnmusic8323]

Last year I found 2 massive mushroom rings probably 50m in diameter containing hundreds of beautiful mushrooms . Unfortunately they were all yellow stainers😢

[@WildFoodUK1]

Impressive to look at though!

[@AutisticAwakeActivist]

Id say that little one is a pinky pale brown

[@scottyiuyy]

👍

[@louiseed1997]

What creature does the boring hole in the mushrooms, I am seeing it a lot this year, is it caterpillars, birds, or maggots? :D

[@WildFoodUK1]

mostly slugs

[@louiseed1997]

@@WildFoodUK1 Hehe! I will need to get in like Flynn next time Atilla is up in Scotland..The amount of amazing has been good up here, lots of toxic stuff, and half eaten boletes! The Fairy ink caps, amaze me,gone without a trace then, POW back again, the cute mushroom!

[@TheKing-ne1ej]

👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

[@TheAwakenedBraveChannel]

Lol, country bumpkins fashion :-)

[@WildFoodUK1]

haha :)

[@Pilzmaxe]

Agaricus: interessting to look at and try to identify (really really hard sometimes) probably better not to eat them...

[@malmoran8643]

It's hard this Mushroom I.D business isn't it mate ?

[@WildFoodUK1]

Yes! :)

[@mrsenstitz]

Yellow stainers smell of listerine.

[@mrsenstitz]

Or phenol

[@mrsenstitz]

Silvaticus or macrosporus /arvensis.

[@mrsenstitz]

Crocodilinus

[@mrsenstitz]

Another renamed fungus.

[@shaunpreston2839]

Is this teamwork necessary! 😮

[@PapaOutdoors238]

Throughly enjoyed your precise information on these mushrooms. Very pleased. Question: in a so-called fairy ring, are the mushrooms all the same or is there different mushrooms that make up the ring. Thank you so much.

[@WildFoodUK1]

each ring is just one species as they are fruiting from one underground organism, but separate rings can come very close and so it can appear that 2 mushrooms are in one ring.