Wild Mushrooms You Can Eat: Summer Edition

27 wild edible mushrooms and their detailed identifying features laid out for you.
Introduced in this video are:
Oyster mushroom. Pleurotus pulmonarius, • Oyster Mushroom Huntin... .
Common chanterelle, Cantharellus cibarius, • Chanterelles for Begin...
American caesar's, Amanita jacksonii， • Caesar's Mushroom ID &...
Berkeley's polypore. Bondarzewia berkeleyi • Berkeley's Polypore Mu...
Suillus granulatus
Chicken fat bolete. Suillus americanus
Chestnut bolete, Gyroporus castaneus
Gilled bolete, Phylloporus rhodoxanthus
Old man of the woods, Strobilomyces strobilaceus
Apple bolete, Exsudoporus frostii
Witches butter, Tremella mesenterica
Club fungi, Clavaria vermicularis
Black trumpet, Craterellus fallax
Smooth chanterelle, Cantharellus lateritius
Cinnabar chanterelle, Cantharellus cinnabarinus
Teeny tiny chanterelle, Cantharellus minor
Quilted green russula, russula crustosa
Weeping milk cap, Lactifluus volumes
Common parasol, Macrolepiota procera
Chicken of the woods, Laetiporus cincinnatus
Black-staining polypore, Meripilus sumstinei
Beefsteak polypore, fistulina hepatica
Laccaria ochropurpurea
Scaly hedgehog mushroom, Sarcodon imbricatus
Ringless honey mushroom, Armillaria tabescens
Turkey tail, Trametes versicolor
Reishi, Ganoderma tsugae & sessile
Want to know more about wild edible mushrooms? Check out this link below. Wild Edible Mushrooms in Maryland and Virginia:
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All about Chanterelles: • Chanterelles for Begin...
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About this channel:
I am a wild mushroom lover and this channel is about me and my wife identifying, collecting, cooking and sometimes preserving wild mushrooms. I've tasted nearly fifty different species of wild mushrooms in Northeast America so far, and I would like to extend my list and to share with you my adventures of nature exploring. If you like my videos, please SUBSCRIBE and share with friends to make the channel grow!
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Be cautious & always refer to multiple reliable sources before consuming any wild edibles!

[@oogalook]

I love looking at weird mushrooms. There, I said it and I stand by it. Thanks for a great vid.

[@lilyw.719]

The Weeping Milk Cap (Voluminously Latext Milky) is one of my absolute favorites stuffed and baked! On its own sauteed, I am not a great fan, but it's FANTASTIC stuffed and baked. It has a nice, firm meaty texture and a nutty flavor.

[@JK-qr2ct]

Just started mushroom hunting during the Covid-19 and your videos are really healthful :)

[@maverick3677]

This is a wildly underrated channel. This is great work and your other videos that go into more detail are very informative with great camera angles to highlight their features. Thank you for all the information.

[@scottkers.4225]

Well made video. Thank you for your time and patience.

[@raspberrycat819]

Thanks for the great content! I appreciate the pacing of your videos. Really good editing and relaxing to watch.

[@OldManoftheWoods]

thanks for watching!

[@leroyjarvis5617]

The tawny milk cap is one of my favorites. Great video!

[@tess7510]

Love your channel! Your videos are so well made

[@pickinanddiggin9128]

Very informative! Thanks for sharing!

[@sketchandjam]

Boletes are pretty tricky for referencing, thanks for putting their names in the video.

[@catfeline1530]

That's an eastern box turtle at the end. Love your videos, always thoughtfully done.

[@ExtremeSurvivor_1]

I just found your channel TODAY! (subbed!) WONDERFUL information about all these mushrooms! That said, do you forage wild edible plants for food or medicine? I'd LOVE to see you do FORAGING for WILD PLANTS! As much as you're in the woods for mushrooms, I'm certain you have a wealth of knowledge on the wild plants. I hope you stack up a few of those puppies!! lol Thank you for sharing your knowledge. *Blessings in ALL You do and Gratitude!*

[@peony70]

Great video thank you for showing so many different angles, great finds!

[@mikek4040]

Excellent video and content. Thanks for putting forth the effort.

[@sharongriffin342]

Fantastic video. Great coverage of main identifying features. I have found most of them, but never a hedgehog -- yet! :-)

[@notmyworld44]

BEAUTIFULLY PRODUCED VIDEO.

[@foleydave26]

Good info. I love foraging wild mushrooms. In the winter I love growing them. Nice video.

[@botanicaltreasures2408]

Really interesting. We had a hot dry September so I didn’t see as many mushrooms as I sometimes do. Now one of our favorite autumn/winter activities is taking a fungi walk in our neighborhood or at a campground ⛺️.

[@datk4834]

Nicely done, great close-ups!

[@lauramcgarry190]

Wonderful vid!!❤

[@JV-yd4qg]

Like the precautionary intro. Thoughtful.👌

[@riversandroots]

Great. Thank you. I love that you wait a few seconds before putting the name up so it's like an identification quiz. Only thing I wonder about is the turkey tail comment "some would disagree that it is medicinal". Turkeytail is the most studies mushroom in the world! It is prescribed by doctors in Japan. Anyhow, I could go on and on. Love your channel!

[@HaphazardHomestead]

That's a good assortment of mushrooms! It's nice seeing your namesake, the Old Man of the Woods, lol. And all those Oysters! Have fun with your fungi this fall!

[@OldManoftheWoods]

Thank you ! Fungi is always fun and happy foraging and gardening too!

[@MkCanada]

@@OldManoftheWoods what this mushroom benefits?

[@mindbodyandsoul5378]

Mushrooms are not a fungi, fungi eat at stuff, mushrooms are the best

[@rossbluestein1437]

You are brilliant. Thanks for the info. so helpful.

[@arandela94za]

I think your Hydnum repandum it's a Sarcodon sp. An excellent work, apreciate it! Great Chanel with great info, thanks

[@primusphilum]

You are correct

[@violettracey]

Awesome! Thanks! It is amazing how many edible mushrooms there are!

[@brendan5232]

I'm a fan, I also hunt mushrooms near the DC area. Would love to see some of the more unusual species covered in more detail sometime in another video. Thanks for your content!

[@OldManoftheWoods]

Thanks Brendan! and I do plan to devote individual videos to most of these species…eventually!

[@notmyworld44]

You might have mentioned the Reishi is reportedly highly medicinal and therapeutic, and is often dried, powdered, and added to coffee. When mixed with coffee the Reishi is called by its other name, Ganoderma. There are several brands of this beverage available commercially, and they all taste quite good. This is one of the better mushroom videos I have seen, and you deserve sincere thanks for your good work.

[@OldManoftheWoods]

that's interesting 😃

[@peregrinegrace8570]

Mushrooms are amazing But your vids are the best Thankyou

[@sharongriffin342]

Another superb video. Thank you!

[@Micheline33]

Amazing mushroom i love so much

[@paullong4471]

Thank you.It is a great video.God bless

[@shelraysam6366]

Thank you for sharing. That's awesome!

[@OldManoftheWoods]

Thanks!

[@glendavanstroe7708]

Very interesting thanks for sharing your knowledge about those mushrooms.

[@Secretsuperstar-mb4rp]

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[@toddfagan7703]

Great vid .wow you saw mr turtle .an a cool squirrel. An a mole too .awesome .

[@OldManoftheWoods]

and getting to see different wild animals is such a bonus of wild foraging!

[@666Thief]

thank you for this very informative video!!!

[@OldManoftheWoods]

thanks!

[@Turtle-sq3ct]

Ok finally a ytber that doesn’t just show picturs and doesn’t show it thank u for being supper onest

[@manumerino]

素晴らしいビデオ。キノコの非常に素晴らしいコレクション。 新しい友達です。自然とキノコが好きです。 スペインからのご挨拶 Great video. A very nice collection of mushrooms. I'm a new friend. I like nature and mushrooms. Greetings from Spain

[@jedediah7772]

I found the weeping milk caps and chanterelles in greenwood SC 👍

[@cmurphy12002]

Very nicely done!

[@gusgalvanini]

I love your channel brother.

[@joet81]

Love your videos guys hope you make a lot more! By the way, at 11:41, that would be sarcodon imbricatus, an edible but poor tasting mushroom, not hydnum repandum.

[@quinntheeskimooutdoors6234]

Thanks for showing us

[@pokemonguider9211]

Wow that mole was so cute

[@nirmaleva]

great video, I like that you only talk in the beginning of the video, that way you get to experience the sounds of the forest as if you were foraging yourself!

[@MrOuchiez]

Jian-Yang! I got diarrhea From those mushrooms! Sorry for the joke, as a fellow forager I absolutely LOVE your content. Please, please, PLEASE keep it up! Much love from Wisco. Cant wait for Morel and Pheasantback season

[@joet81]

Hey guys, wondering if you are going to keep making content? We need more good mushroom content like yours on KZbin! Wishing you all the best

[@hyloward-gh6vj]

We do want more and more 😂❤❤

[@aimaemsukjai1699]

Thank you for nice video.

[@boboala1]

Very good video! You guys are out there in the field showing us many species we only otherwise see in the Audubon Field Guide pics! I was going to subscribe, but saw I already had(!) Say, wanna hear about the neat Stinkhorn I found last week in Missouri?

[@OldManoftheWoods]

so welcome aboard again! please share your foraging stories here when you have time :D

[@boboala1]

@@OldManoftheWoods I met a new friend that has 9 acres here in the Missouri Ozarks by Lesterville. We actually wanted to look for a clear spot to use the telescope later to view Jupiter's moons & Saturn which have been huge/bright all summer and were walking an old log road. I've been able to turn my friends with land into amateur shroom hunters - they love it once they start to realize the variety & abundance of mushrooms underfoot! So his cat had followed us. We got short wiffs of a stinking odor. I sat down for a break and smelled an odor when he & the cat approached. All I could think of was that she was in heat again & emitting a foul odor(?) So, after a couple of minutes I get up to hike again and see a round orange object out in front of me. I make my way to it and it's just debris...then as I'm heading back to join my friend I happen to look down and see the strangest-looking mushroom ever (I'd only seen pics in my Audubon guide) poking up out of the leaves - a white horn shape about 9 or 10" tall with vulva sac at the base...the middle 1/3rd of the stalk was a beautiful crimson red color and the upper 1/3rd was dark olive green with a texture like tapioca pudding. I knew it was a stinkhorn but did not have my field guide with me. Later I looked in my Audubon guide and saw the exact likeness (#692 Elegant Stinkhorn) and that the green part was the spore-bearing 'stinky' area. This mushroom does not shed its spores - it uses the stink to attract insects which disseminate the spores away from the fruiting body. How neat the way nature works! (Note: Peterson guided did not show this stinkhorn.) We've had a pretty wet summer and now the boletes and suillus are huge and everywhere. Fewer chants than last year. Last June my mossy back yard (goes up to local mountain of oak, hickory, pine, etc.) was a blazing eruption of light golden chants everywhere! I was actually using binoculars to spot new eruptions and keep tabs on others so I could beat Mr. Tree Rat Squirrel to them before he ate on them. LOL! Last observation. 2 years ago before I started my interest in foraging mushrooms I did take some pics of 2 species by the house. Later I identified as Old Man Strobilo and in a shady corner Amanita Caesare. (This is a beautifully-colored mushroom from egg to cap unfolding - the hues of yellow to scarlet - awesome! And very good edible I've read.) Last year neither species was observed. This year my yard is full of Strobilos and the Caesares came up in the same spot as 2 years ago...but have not reappeared since July. So, I'm wondering about the cyclical nature of some mushroom species having a periodicity of skipping years? Maybe it's just normal and natural? Have yet to find the dreaded Jack O'Lantern that every mushroom looks like according to all the sources/guides(!) ;-) However, I feel it in my near future that I will find my first Hen of the Woods! Hope so. But we have a real problem with wild hogs around here, and I'm sure they're eating up a lot of the mushrooms they can smell & find! :( Keep up the good work you 2 are doing and I need to review/bookmark that one website you like that's very interactive and scholarly!

[@OldManoftheWoods]

​@@boboala1 thanks for sharing! the stink horn is indeed a very unforgettable mushroom. Most mushrooms will come back every year, though you may find them at a different section of a trail or a few weeks earlier/later. Skipping years is also not uncommon, but it is always good to remember and go back to check your old spots. You probably will see them again!

[@rhondaclark716]

Thank you very much

[@MrDanrn999]

Thank you!

[@tphvictims5101]

Honey Bees are so important. 👍🏻 I just bought the mushrooms of north eastern America. It’s a little on the big side too be lugging around.

[@OldManoftheWoods]

Or maybe you can take many pics and bring some specimens home to investigate :)

[@Vondudek]

This is my companion, and has been for years. The Audubon Society field guide to North American mushrooms goo.gl/images/66agv9

[@rideswithscissors]

Fun video! I had fun guessing the names, and got some right, or almost right. And there were some I had never seen before. Excellent detail, in focus, and nice descriptions. I remember the smell of old man of the woods.

[@sunitafisher4758]

🌸 I know you have done a lot of vids on mushrooms but can you do vid on associated trees Because I am not familiar with where to find edible mushrooms ✨

[@xxpandagalaxyxx5655]

I got unreasonablely happy at the apple mushrooms.

[@Rune_Scholar]

The weirdest mushroom I've ever seen at 5:12.

[@peacefulscrimp5183]

Great video 👍

[@freshlybakedsadness9251]

When you showed the Chestnut Bolete I got nervous because it looks a little similar to autumn skullcap 😬

[@kdavis4910]

Turkey tail is definitely medicinal. In some countries like Japan this mushroom is the 2nd most utilized organism to help treat cancers. Sometimes ppl in the 3rd and 4th stages of cancer have achieved remission and this mushroom has saved cancer patients who are up in their 80's. These folks then went on to pass away by something other than cancer. Science backs this up completely. Idk who states Trametes versicolor is not medicinal but if they did their research they would learn otherwise.

[@AyanaSioux]

Amazing. I found the false version the other day (it's spring) but i see these mushrooms all the time. Thanks for the info.

[@mejiadeguzman3466]

Blogger Old Man, can i ask? Why you need to check out tha back side of the mushroom,? How would you id if its edible or toxic one? What can you say about wood ear or black fungus? Tips plsss, & thank you

[@luiskristoff7584]

Muy bueno saludos desde Uruguay

[@derekfrost8991]

Old man of the woods must be your favourite?? :)

[@RafalScrapper]

cool very nice collection didn't know most of them lol

[@OldManoftheWoods]

Thanks and now you know :)

[@gusgalvanini]

What book guides do you own/recommend?

[@aimaemsukjai1699]

I found both of them a lot.

[@chir0pter]

Would like to see something on Lactarius corrugis if you find any!

[@sangteakhiangte4370]

Thak you...

[@vadaminot429]

Have you ever tried the Butter Boletes? Now I'm confused if I have the Chicken Fat or Butter or if they are the same🤷🏽‍♀️

[@codyholland5138]

What state are you in? I live in Indiana and I don't think I've ever seen a bolete.

[@nicolemitchell446]

This makes me want to go outside.

[@akrammohamed8374]

What's this you spray on your hand?

[@maxblackphotography4901]

What kind of insect repellent do you use?

[@matermangros]

Great video!...have harvested all but 3 that don't grow around here...and 3 disagree w me....

[@BBK727]

What's a good book for Michigan foraging?

[@tobyhensley158]

Would the apple bolete be alright in pies?

[@craigunderwood4353]

Here in NC, chicken in the wood's what do they look like?

[@symainoy1153]

👍❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@robertstellato5172]

why do all the books I use to identify rooms say to stay away from polypores that stain blue?

[@moneymanxd3648]

7:32 Those gills look so beautiful

[@IIrandhandleII]

Where is the general area? Great variety of species there!

[@OldManoftheWoods]

In MD and VA

[@jonathanseibert8832]

Miss your content, you should come back to us

[@wolke739]

需要中文字幕货语音，谢谢！

[@fazrullvforce3276]

Nice colour mshroommm

[@ladinark1672]

The Scaly Hedgehog is NOT Hydnum Repandum for sure! Probably Sarcodon imbricatus!

[@snowfox22]

Looks like you are finding these in relatively dry areas. Are you still able to find mushrooms without weeks of rain?

[@OldManoftheWoods]

MD is not that dry & I always pick somewhere near rivers.

[@lieblee3063]

The mushrooms old man of the wood. If the cap is grey and the stem is white is that edible. The top part kind of look like freckles. But it feels bumpy

[@Chimera6297]

Damn I didn't know there were so many boletes. I usually go for the King Boletes and the red cap ones. They are pretty tasty. Don't eat them if they have a red stem tho. Yellow gills red stem, just leave it. And holy shit that apple bolete is new to me, I've never even heard of it

[@mikek4040]

There are over a hundred species of boletes only 1 that I know of that is poisonous Boletus Satanas, however, there are many that do not taste good like the bitter bolete (Tylopilus felleus) and parasitic bolete (Boletus parasiticus) among others. And as with any mushroom they may or may not affect you the same as other people.

[@liliu1807]

Is that red bole edible?

[@loading420]

can you eat the mole or?

[@spotlightshiky5808]

Anya adyay magmagna nga kasla billit?billit ba adyay?

[@grunt9131]

This dude is a trip

[@myco_miguel]

Why did you say allegedly medicinal for the turkey tail? There are numerous studies on the medicinal values of NPK

[@OldManoftheWoods]

Hello mushroom lovers, check out fungusid.com if you haven't. It's a FREE educational tool created by me to help you automatically identify wild mushrooms. Just upload your image and find out what the mushroom is!

[@amornlevell]

I love eat 🍄🍄

[@KAFKUBA]

While not poisonous, many of these are not good to eat...in particular the brackets and polypores

[@michellebarnhill7947]

Did you find all of these in one day? What part of the country are you in?

[@OldManoftheWoods]

They were found in the greater DC area over the past three months.

[@raynerkok4691]

Name: Quilted green russala Backround: crying

[@cheryltang2724]

相机质量好

[@OldManoftheWoods]

iPhone actually :)

[@edsiefker1301]

Did you eat the A jacksonii? I'd be too scared.

[@OldManoftheWoods]

I did because I was quite sure, and I tried different ways of cooking them. so I can tell you don't try them, as they are very mediocre…

[@edsiefker1301]

I am glad to know I'm not missing anything. Thanks, keep up the good work.

[@jimbetts3064]

I eat them every year. Not a lot of taste but plentiful. Just be careful when identifying.

[@bigthunder2860]

I have a hillbilly recipe for bugs any cheap mouthwash and add equal parts whiskey and pine oil a quarter part