Top 3 Deadliest Mushrooms in the PNW

This video showcases the top 3 deadly mushrooms in th e Pacific northwest, and it might suprise some of you. Whether youre a novice mushroom hunter or a seasoned forager, these are a few of the mushrooms you should definitly know so you can avoid them!
The false morel or Gyromitra Esculenta is one common killer if enough are consumed. The reaction in the liver produces jet-fuel in your body, affects the central nervous system, causes liver and kidney failure, coma and then death. Not a mushroom you want to mistakenly eat.
The Galerina Marginata, AKA the funeral bell is a small wood-loving LBM that packs a toxic punch and will have bells ringing at your funeral. Sometimes confused with Psilocybe Cyanescens, this mushroom is not hallucinogenic and is very deadly, and one to watch out for.
And of course the ever frightful Death Cap, or Amanita Phalloides makes the top of the list with its mega dose of deadly amatoxins that kill the liver and kidneys.
All of these mushrooms you should familiarize yourself with so you do not end up a statistic.
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[@paintqueen1]

Love that you posted this. I get so many local foragers mad at me for teaching and leading hikes locally thinking I am sharing their spots. I think teaching about mushrooms is a public service! Honestly the more I teach people it ultimately weeds out new foragers that do not want to take the time to learn and pay attention to details!

[@nwshirts]

Glad I saw this, I've been on the lookout for Candy Caps and those Funeral Caps look real similar to what I've been looking for.

[@LawNerdAmber]

thank you for these. All we learn as kids is "they're all poisonous" so it's nice to learn more about which ones are and what that means.

[@jcampbell100]

Oh man the music in this was hilarious. Anyway thanks for the info really love your channel.

[@shadetreader]

"If not friend, then why friend-shaped?"

[@jeffgardner9006]

Aaron - love your vids! Keep em up!!

[@thecunningkrugereffect]

Another great video! Thanks Aaron 🍄☺

[@jennyjohnson2867]

In Michigan false morels often look exactly like morels, except the cap isn’t completely connected to the stem. The morel look alike you show us doesn’t look anything like a morel to me but so glad to learn about it so thank you. Unfortunately I am extremely allergic to morels 😢 so my morel mushroom eating days are over.

[@IntuitiveUniversity]

Good Stuff

[@ScottRiddleArtist]

Hi Aaron . I live in Santa Cruz California. And have encountered all the mushrooms you listed. Here’s one that I wondered if it grew where you are? Satan’s bolete?!?! it’s a beautiful, large mushroom, and because it varies in color it fooled me one time. It was delicious going down, but not so fun when the body tried to reject it in the middle of the night. Lol to my knowledge it’s one of the few poisonous boletes.

[@shmerd1]

Apparently the Death Cap is something of a storm trooper!

[@human4805]

Are u sure the 1st pic of death cap were actually those? Looks like they have black gills apposed to the mature one at 6:06 that stays white?

[@artosan3582]

The reason why ppl prepare false morrels here in scandinavia is the fact that it is (IMO at least) one of the most delicious mushrooms out there. However, if you do not know how to prepare it properly DO NOT TOUCH IT and leave it be.

[@user-rt8xo5pt2t]

I found some mushrooms that look identical to psilocibin allenii but not sure if there sulfer tufts.

[@KodyBaker]

How do you tell the difference between the funeral cap and other LBM that aren't poisonous?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Rusty Brown spore print

[@fattymcbastard6536]

The amanitas in general have been extremely prolific this year. This is the first year I've noticed death caps where I pick pine mushrooms. The destroying angels this year seem to be impossibly abundant. They're absolutely everywhere in my chanterelle areas, and sadly outnumbering them by a longshot. I've never seen the muscaria in such abundance as this year as well.

[@martinginsburg7222]

noticing a lot of Funeral bells too.

[@natejohnson3016]

I was out this weekend and saw hundreds of Amanita muscaria in an area of maybe .5 sq mi

[@backwoodsfreak]

I’ve ate pounds of those mushrooms called false morels. My parents and I used to get plastic grocery bags full of those every year for decades and until I was about 35 I never had a bad experience. We fried them with heart and liver of elk and deer and would literally have a party every year in eating these mushrooms with people living in our small town of Huntington... Parents won’t go near them now after learning they are toxic. It was horrible the reaction I had to them but just once and it was when eating them with morels and whatever those big loaf mushrooms are that I can never remember the name of that are a bitch to clean. Figured I had just ate too many of them but then find out you’re not supposed to eat them at all… great my liver is probably gelatinous…

[@rodger603]

It takes a bit because my brothers when they worked in West Virginia actually met someone who's family member was eating them. They died of liver failure but it wasn't just from one meal. They ate them for years. I don't think it just drops you dead!

[@lovewillwinnn]

your music........and do you ever blink 😮🙀 no brow movement 🤔

[@tip6603]

If death cap was eaten should i fell sick yet been 30 plus hours no side effects. or any other poison mush?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Seems to me your have already experienced vomiting and stomach cramps, but if you're truly concerned see your doctor!

[@raymondscottbehnoud8986]

Thank you for helping save lives 💙66🌹🎱🦶🐅💙

[@jennyjohnson2867]

I found a bunch of those funeral bell mushrooms in my backyard. Not a helpful food source during a zombie apocalypse. 😂

[@fokkenhotz]

❤

[@sazji]

"Funeral bells" - never heard that but it's well named. It's kind of like a cruel joke that A. phalloides actually tastes good!

[@midnull6009]

Actually, false morel's aren't poisonous...a lot of places around the world eat them. Cooked. But in general you shouldn't never really eat any RAW mushroom; edible or not. There are few who can't tolerate them. It will cause nausea and a poop fest. I and my family can eat them just fine. In fact, I have some growing every other year in a few garden beds.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Gyromitra contain a toxin called gyromytrin, when metabolized by the digestive system becomes monomethylhydrazine, basically rocket fuel. They have been known to cause deaths. I would be very careful if I were you.

[@midnull6009]

@@mushroomwonderland1 only if eaten raw...that is why you have to parboil them... I did mention that in my comment. You'd be stupid if you eat ANY mushroom raw when foraging. Even the edible ones can have other things on them from bacteria, fungus, etc. that will cause issues. Gyromitrin is water soluble..that is why you boil it...have to know how to prepare food. :) We've been eating this mushroom for years. Eastern Europeans eat these all the time. Cheers,

[@LeslieBernard222]

note that Aaron Hilliard is nowhere close to a mycologist....

[@trinaka]

Many people in rural USA eat the false morels shown in the video. They fry them up with the true morels. I won't touch them though.

[@4ervpodzabornij493]

Once u eaten galerina, u wont feel any difence, but after 10 days u feel, and the process couldnt be stoped.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Do you have a reference for that, or is that just what you heard from somebody? I'm truly curious. I've never heard that.

[@4ervpodzabornij493]

@@mushroomwonderland1 Ive read that in some micologyst websites, on russian language. I was reading alot about them, becouse im hunting myself Kuehnerómyces mutábilis, which are prety close looking, and was prety skared to eat them once i found the first ones. I read the information how fast i would be poisend if i fail with mushrooms, and eaten first time not much of them to stay alive in case.

[@karenklucas923]

I take scull cap. Herbal supliment

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I don't think we're talking about the same thing

[@denawagner360]

Skull cap is a plant, and following the suggested dose, safe for consumption

[@karenklucas923]

I take it too.. 1/2 t with water .in the morning.

[@nolancampbell4451]

Watched my dumb friend growing up definitely eat a poisonous mushroom that his fiend ass thought was a magic mushroom he then vomited and shook for like 24 hours

[@marinvidovic763]

There are 2 major MISTAKES that need to be stressed in this Topic , (* 2 BAD HABITS that may cause deadly mistake). ASSUMPTION No 1. : You approach a colony of only few -... or sometimes hundreds of e.g. pylocibe or any mushroom... you wrongly ASSUME that (!!!) PROXIMITY means EQUALITY .... ... and BINGO you just pick everything with no paying attention to detailed observation of every picked peace. Many times I found totaly different species mixed in one cluster. Even under the cap of one another !!!! ASSUMPTION No.2. That all samples growing together are same specie - so THEN Picking SMALL UNDRlRDEVELOPED Samples ... what is even more deadly...as e.g. white tiny Amanita phaloides or Amanita Verna are 99% same as Agaricus or as Puff balls ... VERY SIMILAR ....So... Pick only fully developed mushrooms - not Baby mushrooms. 🎉

[@DG-iw3yw]

anyone looking for psilocybe needs to learn poisonous mushroom id. dont be a fool

[@kylerain559]

Ah, so people shouldn't be putting random mushrooms in their mouth.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

No, it's ok to put it in your mouth, just don't swallow unless you know what it is!

[@lukerankin4681]

Eating charcoal is not fun. They were probably mower's mushrooms, but I was 2 at the time and my mom liked to hover. Bleh!

[@mikehokberns676]

So much misinformation ots difficult to sort.

[@mike-bee]

Thanks for the info, your background music takes away from your content though. Hard to listen to you.

[@downbytheriver501]

Only thing more deadly is them cauliflower ears for idiots lookin for a fight at a bar 😂