Mushroom Foraging Part 3

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morning guys I'm Dave Canterbury with self-reliance Outfitters in the Pathfinder school what I thought I'd do today in our third part in our series on the foraging mushrooms is just kind of take a look at some of the things that you should steer clear of or stay away from you know a lot of people have a phobia when it comes to mushrooms and there's lots and lots of mushrooms out there that can do you harm they won't all kill you but many of them can make you very sick and some of them can actually kill you so there's a few rules of thumb being fairly new at this myself that I stay with when I'm collecting mushrooms that I plan to consume so let's talk about first I want to show you one kind of a poison look-alike if you will because I don't think there's a lot of poison look-alikes in the mushroom world that you need to concern yourself with if you stay with some basic rules and stay with some very commonly known mushrooms that are hard to miss identify the mushroom in the background here is called jack-o'-lantern and jack-o'-lantern or false chantrelle can be mistaken by a beginner for a chanterelle mushroom and it is poisonous is it poisonous enough to do you in possibly not but it's poisonous enough to make you wish it probably had so let's look at this monster for a minute I'll just pull one right here and again you know you can touch mushrooms that are poisonous you can actually put them in your mouth and not swallow the meat and put it on your tongue and smoosh it around and as long as you don't swallow the meat of the mushroom it's not going to poison you however that doesn't mean you should just go around putting mushrooms in your mouth either you should stick with some simple rules and this mushroom looks very much like a chanterelle and that has veins that run partially down the stem but it kind of has a folded cap and it's not opened up like a chanterelle mushroom is but at a distance before someone who's just started it can be mistaken for chantrelle which is why it's called a false chantrelle or jack-o'-lantern type mushroom so this is one that you want to stay away from you can see it's growing in big thick patches here with several of them growing on top of each other it kind of in a cluster like this and chanterelles don't generally do that either so those are a couple things you can look at well what I want to talk to you about today is some other mushrooms like Amanita mushrooms mushrooms that are in the Rossella family that you really want to stay away from but also just some general characteristics of mushrooms that you want to be on the lookout for and not even take a chance with them especially as a beginner because even people who collect mushrooms all the time and are considered mushroom experts get poisoned by mushrooms so that makes it even more critical for people who are new to the game to be very aware of what they're doing and there's some things that you can kind of use as generalities of rules to help you avoid that problem so we're going to talk about those as we walk through the woods today stay with me so we looked at that jack-o'-lantern you saw how they grew in patches and here is or they kind of grew together these true chanterelles kind of grow all by themselves one at a time and they look completely different if you know what you're looking at but at the same time you know it may not be that difficult to mistake them if you weren't careful there's a reason it's called a false chanterelle so I just want to show you the edible version of that so that you would understand the difference on camera at the same time okay let's look at this mushroom for a minute you can see I get it in some good light for you here maybe it's got a yellow top with a bunch of white specks on it and it's got gills underneath and a veil and a shaggy stem now this mushroom is an Amanita species mushroom and this one is one you definitely do not want to take lightly there are several species of Amanita in this woods but those are the psychedelic and the mushrooms that will actually kill you our native species mushrooms most of them have a lot of things in common most of them have a veil like this most of them have gills and that's one of the things that I kind of think about when I'm looking at mushrooms and deciding on whether that's a mushroom I want to research or one that I want to take a chance on it does this mushroom have gills if it's got gills like this and this mushroom is wide open okay that's already dropped of spores it's on the way out and we'll kind of look at a couple more examples of this earlier in its lifecycle as we go but if it's got gills generally I try to stay away from it and I think that's a good thing to remember when you were first starting out in collecting mushrooms because most of the good edible mushrooms that are out there that are considered choice edibles like your bow lays and your chanterelles and your morals and your puff balls and those type mushrooms oyster mushrooms don't have gills like this they have gills that run all the way down the stem or they don't have any gills at all in the case of bow lays and things like that so we're going to stay away from anything that has gills this Amanita species mushroom contains also the mushrooms called death cap and destroying angel which those are the really bad ones obviously you can tell by the name so we're gonna look at a couple other examples of these type mushrooms as we go because these are ones we want to steer clear up one of those Amanita is that we looked at that was wide open that hasn't opened up all the way yeah you can see it's still closed that's coming up and when it opens up it'll look like that giant one that we looked down and again this is an Amanita species mushroom it's definitely one that you want to avoid there's another Amanita species mushroom again these are the psychedelic ones and the ones that will put you under you can see the speckles on the top generally that is a sign of an Amanita it's got this specks on the top whether it's red or whether it's tan or brown and again it's a beautiful mushroom you can see it's got gills underneath they go way up kind of detached way at the top of the stem their yellow stem red with white specks on top not a friend of the family their czar ruthless species mushrooms you see they don't have the dots on top of it but they're red

I find that something chews on these most of the time I don't find a perfect specimen very often one coming up here that's got the top eaten off before it even opened up and there are species of this ruseler that are edible however most of them are not so it's another one of those mushrooms I stay away from and because the Amanita is also red bright red like that with the white dots and this rusul is bright red I kind of stay away from anything bright red as a general rule okay this is an M&E to mushroom and it is early in its life cycle let's come up out of the ground it hasn't opened up yet like it will and become flat and you'll see later on its life cycle if we can find another one where the veil will drop off from protecting the gills and you'll see that they'll left on the stem when it opens up that spreads spores it's a beautiful mushroom but most of the ones that are poison are but it's good to be able to identify them throughout their lifecycle again this is an Amanita probably a destroying angel if I had to guess here's several more a mini that's coming up there's a really small one that's just come up and you can see these are starting to get larger these three here and eventually they'll open up and drop a veil that veil will drop down and then it will spread open I try to find you one to spread open out here a beautiful mushroom but again poison beyond poison you don't want to mess with these at all species mushroom bright yellow to orange sail gills pretty unmistakable mushroom that you shouldn't ever confuse with one of the edible species that we've talked about but it's good to understand what this looks like so you realize that it is poison I'll see if we find a bigger one to look at or something that's in a different part of this lifecycle even than this one was ok here's that Amanita a little bigger in its lifecycle and this is as far as I can identify it what they call Amanita Cesaro and according to the field guard Audubon Society feel God it is actually an edible Amanita however I default back to number one it's got gills number two it's got a veil number three it's an Amanita species mushroom so I would not even chance it okay guys well this has just been another quick vlog style video that was shot out here in the woods while we were looking around at different mushrooms and what I want you to realize what this whole thing is you know I don't think mushrooms are probably worth the risk versus reward in the short term however in the long term in a homesteading or a long term scenario where you're going to live off of what you can find on the landscape and forage mushrooms have a place for sure they are both medicinal in some cases and they have lots of vitamins and minerals in them as well as proteins so they are definitely worth understanding now there are mushrooms that gills on them that I do consume there are mushrooms that gills on them that are edible for sure so when I say don't mess with mushrooms of gills I'm talking in the beginning when you first start to learn this stuff there's general rules that you can stay away from that will make it a lot safer for you to start to learn how to forage mushrooms off the landscape stay away from mushrooms that have a veil stay away from mushrooms that have gills stay away from mushrooms that are very brightly colored in most cases and when you're looking at mushrooms make sure that you fully identify them shrim before you consume it that is the most important thing to understand use one two three resources if you can to identify the mushroom before you decide to consume it and if you do decide to consume the mushroom keep one mushroom in a cool place that you've not consumed in case you do become ill or sick because many mushrooms don't make you sick right off the bat they make you sick in one to two days and lots and lots of symptoms can vary but there are mushrooms out there that attack your liver and things like that that can take several days to several weeks to do you harm so it's important to understand that as well I appreciate your views I appreciate your support I'm Dave Canterbury self-reliance outfitter in the Pathfinder school I thank you very thing you do for our school for our family and for business all our sponsors instructors affiliates and Friends and I'll be back to another video as soon as I can

thanks guys