WINTER MUSHROOM FORAGING- mid January mushroom identification in the Pacific Northwest

[@dauman1442]

Lynnwood here. You opened my eyes. thank you thank you thank you! Keep up the excellent work! Can't wait for spring 🥶

[@brandonboulton2776]

I've got sooo much magic popping up in my front and back yards this year. Black elfin saddle, turkey tail, blue oyster, 😁👍

[@rierussell2303]

Yesss-- I found 2 elfin saddles earlier this winter and I powdered them-- so good on everything lol

[@natureisallpowerful]

I found the mother load of grey oysters yesterday here in England. I've been surprised this winter.

[@NP7_16]

Thanks for an other nice video!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thank you for all your support 💕🍄🤙

[@NP7_16]

@@mushroomwonderland1 🍄❤

[@bethwishes268]

Thanks for keeping your videos straight on and not full of gimmicky edits! Watching them feels like going mushroom hunting with a really knowledgable buddy. Also I like your music choices and where and how you apply them. :)

[@Mymax_welloninstagram]

Need some psychic products mushrooms 🍄 chat ☝️☝️.

[@sonofabear]

Wow! those oysters look so fresh! Turkey tails are some of my favorites too

[@stevejonas1153]

Thanks for the video Aaron. Appreciate you getting out there and showing us some of the January mushrooms in your area.

[@evetamboer8273]

I am a mycophile in southern Oregon and I show your videos to my grandkids daily so thank you for that!! You are inspiring me and them to take daily walks to take pics of our findings!!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Awesome!

[@honeyvitagliano3227]

Where in Southern Oregon? My sister is in Medford and I’m coming to visit for the next 3 weeks if you want to link up with a fellow mycophile and are close enough we could meet up in town and go for a walk/look-see .I’m the foray coordinator and a boardmember with Pikes Peak Mycological society here in Colorado Springs ☺️🍄💞

[@evetamboer8273]

@@honeyvitagliano3227 I am in Kerby near cave junction which is just a short drive from Medford and I would Enjoy that GREATLY!

[@honeyvitagliano3227]

@@evetamboer8273 Hey, would you mind if I looked you up on FB? I'm under my middle name on FB Angelina. You really aren't that far- just a short jaunt away really.

[@survivormary1126]

Love the Disney style music and then....there it is "Wonderland". haha....cute. Glad to have found your channel and thank you :)!

[@howardlashbrook1657]

I thank you for all the information you put on your channel. stay safe

[@NurseAmmy]

Hello, I moved to WA from NY a little more than a month ago. I found your channel recently and you tempt me to go outside and maybe start foraging around as a little fun side hobby. I happen to live next to a trail and I really want to go explore my surroundings. Thank you!

[@krisschaumont2579]

Well that was me and last week I found my first ones and ate them!!! It was amazing!

[@terranceanthon5182]

Love your videos. Informative Short and sweet,to the point and excellent narrative. Keep them coming!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thank you for the kind words 🍄🤙🙏

[@SkyfallLotus]

Mush love! Another great video. Thank you!

[@pmm1044]

And the fairy parachute on our Issy hike last week. Love your vids.

[@lovethemack]

more enjoyable and informative content, thanks! similar habitat to my area here in BC Canada, and not all of it is over my head !~

[@paulgroth3345]

Thank you so much for your videos. It is really nice of you to post your approximate location. I myself am close on the western side of Hood Canal. So that what you tell us his so much more relevant and many of the things you show are some that I find on my own property. Please keep up this good work you are a treasure of knowledge we're both the novice and experienced mushroom hunter.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Glad I could help you out! I'm happy to share the locations where I'm just doing a mushroom walk. My super honey holes will probably remain a secret though 😂🤙🙏

[@donnacovel4460]

I get transported into Mushroom Wonderland the minute I hear the intro music. Aaron,keep the vids coming.Great job!!💚💚

[@marymwood1964]

On my to washington state muddle of Feb. I can't wait to forage around ! Please know your channel is LOVED !! 😍 ❤️ 🍄

[@timmynormand8082]

Here in Louisiana oysters are plentiful considering the rainfall we get. Also the abundant turkey tail. Thanks for another informative Video

[@With.Love.Chris.]

Love your content! Relocated to the magical PNW years ago from Cali and decided it is time to start my mushroom foraging adventures. Love the info and wisdom shared. Keep shining!

[@honeyvitagliano3227]

I’m going to visit my sis in southern Oregon tomorrow, sure hope to find something bc we are super dry in Colorado Thanks for your video Aaron 💞🙏🏻🍄

[@evetamboer8273]

If you are serious about connecting to mushy hunt I am next to the Oregon caves and I have access to miles of prime foraging just NOBODY to exchange knowledge with and Aaron has been my favorite guide through his videos for identifying my local myco.

[@mixedupmenopausaladhd3999]

@@evetamboer8273 I’m interested!

[@anniekurkovych9956]

Love your videos. Just started watching 🍄. I was born on Ukraine so I foraged for mushrooms as a child.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Awesome, welcome aboard!!🍄🙏

[@gabrielapetunia1871]

Great video. Bring your dog more, it makes a video more fun. Dogs always bring in more viewers. I think one of the best things about mushrooming is hiking with a dog. Just personally, I love watching what kind of things a dog is doing while mushroom hunting. They sort of do their natural thing because the person is to busy looking for mushrooms.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Yeah he's usually with me, but once in awhile I take a walk and for whatever circumstance he couldn't be there that day. But he's my trail dog for sure! He's got an impeccable sense of direction. We can learn a lot from dogs.

[@Davidmc23]

You are such a great communicator.

[@brettsoutdoorexperience9422]

Excellent video as always! Makes me want to get out into the woods here in GA.

[@lucasah8474]

Turkey tail great in bone broth!

[@treehuggingbuddhist]

Despite the lack of mushrooms to forage here in the PNW during winter you managed to educate and inform with your mycological tidbits of info!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I'm reaching but still finding plenty of mushrooms growing out here!

[@jcampbell100]

Thank you so much for your vids. I wish I could go walk with you for a year to id mushrooms. One little tweak for your vids. When your are panning a scene please go a bit slower as your camera cannot focus and results in a blurred pic. Just a thought but so appreciate the content, and I can now look for a few edibles with confidence.

[@gardengatesopen]

Great editing!! 👍

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Thank you🍄

[@jasondonatelli962]

Quite a bit of Turkey Tail here in Willamette Valley now.

[@TheTachyonKnight]

Aaron, Your videos along with some others by Tony Santoro (Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't) and Alan Rockefeller have inspired me to begin my own journey of mushroom foraging. I've already read a few field guides but I was wondering if you could suggest your favorites for the Pacific Northwest Region or just in general. Thanks for all your videos!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Very cool! Currently I really like mushrooms of the Redwood coast. Although the book is centered in the northern part of California I haven't found many mushrooms in western Washington that aren't in that book. There's also another one called the mushrooms of British columbia, I believe, that just came out. Should be really up to date. I would check that one out!

[@psilosighin]

It’d be great to see you do a video foraging in the UK one time!

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I would absolutely love that! Maybe do a collaboration with @wildfoodsuk

[@honeyvitagliano3227]

Marlow from @wildfoodsuk is AMAZING and he does mushroom tours in, I believe S.E England. My husband and I plan on coming out your way in the next 5 years and I def plan to do a tour with him. He’s like the English version of Aaron here 😜🍄✌️

[@krisschaumont2579]

Hey man, after watching this video, I went to a forest nearby this morning and started looking a little more in the right places and found a couple nice Late Fall Oyster mushrooms. My very very first edible mushrooms. Because of your videos I was pretty sure I was in the good so I packed them and did more research at home. They were really good! What a satisfaction finding them and getting to eat them. I just bought a fun little belt bag and a little knife with a bristle. This is MUCH more fun than looking for pokemons I tell you that :p Thanks for the videos! If you're ever around Mill Creek and want to exchange some knowledge for some overly dedicated camera work, hit me up! :p

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Awesome man! 🍄🤙 Glad to hear it!! You got the bug there's no going back! Thanks for the offer I'll keep that in mind!

[@naturallynorthwest9748]

I've found Oyster mushrooms before and had some people in a foraging group tell me they were Pleurotus ostreatus (Oyster Mushrooms), and other members swear they are Pleurocybella porrigens (Angel Wings). Then there are people who feel Angel Wings are edible and others who swear they are toxic. What are some ways to tell them apart? People have said that Angel Wings grow on conifers and Oysters on hardwoods. But I've found Oysters on hardwoods too. Also, I like the forest gnome music and the fern crunching. Its like my Saturday morning cartoon foraging adventure. Complete with Fairy Parachutes :D

[@annalopez-overmyer9987]

So a lot of the time, angel wings will have a really stumpy stalk or absolutely none at all. In my experience almost every specimen I've found was sessile and growing on hemlock. Oyster mushrooms also have an almost bluish whitish lavenderish spore print and can be sessile sometimes but have pretty hearty flesh. Meanwhile, angel wings tend to drop a white to creamy white spore print and their flesh is very fragile! A lot of the toxicity from angel wings is thought to come from an unstable amino acid that the kidneys break down. Almost all of the deaths attributed to Angel wings have been from people on dialysis eating a large quantity of them!

[@naturallynorthwest9748]

@@annalopez-overmyer9987 Thank you! That's helpful

[@annalopez-overmyer9987]

@@naturallynorthwest9748 no problem, champ! Happy hunting!

[@pmm1044]

My daughter found winter chanterelle in Issaquah :)

[@mistystorythyme2452]

💚💚💚

[@Bandit86b2]

Where did you learn about mushrooms and where did the passion come from? Cheers

[@mushroomwonderland1]

The last video I uploaded tells the story! Thanks for watching!🍄

[@krisschaumont2579]

Those oyster ones were from that trip? Thinking about going there tomorrow. I think my dog is wanting to help finding them too. I’m going to try to teach him.

[@alexmedeiros9306]

Hello @arron @mushroomwonderland. My wife and i are moving to the pacific northwestern. And will be staying in Renton, Wa for a week, for the last week of march. We will be looking for a new place to live but also want to do some foraging! So my question is, will we be able to forage for mushrooms around that time in the forested area of WA. We would also be down to meet with a group to go on a group foraging expedition.

[@JuanSanchez-he4cr]

Would be cool if u post Evey day

[@navystreak]

Got a new camera? Some tracking? The shot on the t.t. pores was great quality.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

I'm just trying to slow down and focus more on better video quality. Just using my cell phone with a little gimbal on these foraging videos. I have a really nice camera but it's difficult to line up every shot and change lenses and stuff. So I just use a Galaxy s21 with a hohem gimbal. Trying to improve!

[@TinaHagedorn]

We live nearby. which park or trail has the turkey tale?

[@toneenorman2135]

Isn’t the Angel Wing mushrooms a toxic look- alike for the Oyster? Thank you.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

They are actually considered edible - unless it's 2014 and you are a Japanese convalescent home tenant with kidney issues, in which case it can be lethal. A lot of people died in one isolated incident with those mushrooms, but that's the only known report. So take your chances as you will!

[@toneenorman2135]

Mushroom Wonderland Oh,that’s interesting. Thanks!

[@Counterculturefamily]

what kind of fossils do yall have around there?

[@max1dizzy2]

How does the turkey tail tea taste?

[@toneenorman2135]

Turkey Tail tea is very tasty. Earthy and mushroomy. Very comforting.

[@max1dizzy2]

@@toneenorman2135 Thanks.

[@jasondonatelli962]

To me it tastes like wheat bread.

[@max1dizzy2]

@@jasondonatelli962 Thanks.

[@gardengatesopen]

Nice Turkey Tail find!! ID question: Do ALL false Turkey Tail NOT have pores? There's just so many...

[@mushroomwonderland1]

There are other look alikes, and other species of trametes, which do have pores, but you have to compare all of the other key identifiers as well. None have the same leathery smooth, sometimes velvety top with concentric ring zones, growing on hardwood, same general stature and thickness, as well as pores.

[@gardengatesopen]

@@mushroomwonderland1 Thank You! That's very helpful info.

[@KnightofEkron]

Is Silver Leaf edible?

[@justbeasmr]

How cold does it get in the dead of winter where you are, Aaron? (I'm in Wisconsin so it's def been a challenge to find mushrooms at 10 degrees below haha)

[@Mymax_welloninstagram]

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[@BubuH-cq6km]

🍄 🥰

[@alexduvall2007]

You kept saying that you don't commonly find mushrooms growing on maple? I find that pleurotus and trametes alike will grow on Maple over here on the southeast end of the sound.

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Maybe it's because I don't typically forage around a lot of maple trees, simply for the fact that they don't usually grow around dense conifers. But alder do. But I have definitely found oysters on Maple.

[@brianjanku4549]

Can you eat the purple silver leaf one?

[@mushroomwonderland1]

It is not considered edible. And the fruiting bodies are actually quite rare So collecting enough to even cook up and eat would be a difficult task.

[@brianjanku4549]

@@mushroomwonderland1 thanks.

[@jasonm871]

I recently started mushroom foraging. I've yet to find anything to harvest within the last 1.5 months (😢) What am I missing? Olympic peninsula/HoodsPort area...

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Really it's just been the off-season, not a ton of good edible mushrooms out there right now. When the weather starts warming up more mushrooms are going to come out, common spring mushrooms, some of which are really good to eat, like morels, so stay tuned for sure! A new video is coming out tomorrow all about what's growing out there right now, and there's some edibles in the mix!

[@TheRobotViking]

which dinosaur can jump higher than a house?......all of them. houses can't jump

[@mushroomwonderland1]

Completely random but I like it! 🤙🍄

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