Magic mushrooms, also known as Psilocybe Semilanceata or liberty caps, are a type of fungus that can grow in various habitats, including forests, pastures, and backyard settings. They are characterized by their ability to sprout quickly and easily, making them a popular choice for gardeners. To grow magic mushrooms, create an environment where mycelium can thrive and grow.
To ensure the longevity of your magic mushrooms, it is essential to dry them properly and store them adequately. Psilocybe mushrooms can be found in forest humus soils, near streams, and coastal dune grasses. Urban magic mushrooms are not uncommon, but they may not sprout from every bit of mulch.
Mushrooms can be grown in one’s yard, either by buying them or growing them yourself. They are a common part of healthy soil, even in the desert, and fruiting bodies develop after heavy rains. To find the perfect spot in your garden, look for a shaded area with plenty of direct sunlight.
In the US, fall is the beginning of mushroom season, when damp conditions cause them to proliferate. To ensure the success of your magic mushroom patch, it is crucial to create an environment where mycelium can thrive and grow. Foraging for wild mushrooms in different regions and learning about the benefits, effects, and identification of psilocybin mushrooms can help you grow a year’s supply of these versatile creatures.
📹 12 Mushrooms That Grow In Your Yard
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How can a mushroom appear to grow overnight?
Mushrooms can appear quickly due to their rapid expansion of the fruiting body, which can grow several inches within hours. This growth can create the illusion of overnight sprouting. Cellular expansion is a key mechanism for mushroom growth, as cells within the mushroom absorb water, causing them to swell and expand. This process allows mushrooms to shoot up quickly when the right conditions are met, such as moisture, temperature, and nutrients. Understanding this fascinating process deepens our appreciation for these unique organisms and their role in our ecosystem.
Can mushrooms grow on fabric?
Mushroom cultivation can be done using natural plant fibers like cotton, hemp, and bamboo. To start, soak clothing in fresh water, flatten it on a surface, and sprinkle mushroom starter culture sparingly. Roll the clothing tightly or stack it in spawned layers. Place the clothing in a plastic bag or enclosed container with holes. Check the moisture content of the clothing every few days during colonization to prevent drying out. Mist or water the clothing as needed.
Room temperature or cooler is suitable for colonizing clothing scraps. When the entire mass appears completely colonized by the mycelium, increase ventilation by adding more holes or cracking the lid. Keep the surfaces slightly misted to induce mushroom formation. The colonization process can take one to two weeks, depending on the amount of spawn used. Once mushrooms appear, they will double in size every day. Mist as frequently as needed to prevent drying out. Once mushrooms stop growing, they are ready to be harvested.
Do mushrooms like UV light?
Mushrooms need UV light to produce Vitamin D, which they naturally receive outdoors. However, indoor mushrooms grown indoors do not receive this energy. A brief exposure to high-energy Pulsed Light can increase the Vitamin D content of indoor mushrooms to a higher level than those grown outdoors. Mushrooms treated with Pulsed Light can provide 100 of a person’s daily Vitamin D requirement and can also be used to treat mushroom powder. Pulsed Light is not the same as continuous UV light, which can be used for indoor-grown mushrooms with longer exposure times.
Do mushrooms clean the air?
Fungi have been found to break down pollutants like petroleum, PFAS, herbicides, and pesticides, and can even eliminate lead by sequestering and immobilizing contaminants in their tissues. CoRenewal, an organization that works to restore damaged ecosystems, began with cleaning crude oil pollution in the Ecuadorian Amazon using oyster mushrooms. They shifted their focus to post-wildfire cleanup after Northern California wildfires in 2017, applying fungal materials to prevent toxic ash runoff and regenerate ecosystems damaged by fire. They are currently testing the effectiveness of this treatment in five wildfire hotspots along the US’ West Coast, expecting results by early 2024.
Do mushrooms need water?
The Mushroom Sustainability Report reveals that mushrooms require less water than other foods, with an average of 1. 8 gallons per pound for White and Brown mushrooms, 1. 7 gallons for White mushrooms, and 2. 2 gallons for Brown mushrooms. This is significantly less than hamburgers, which require up to 660 gallons of water for one patty, or even one egg at 52 gallons. Additionally, mushrooms only require 1. 0 kilowatt-hour of energy. Food typically requires a four-step process from agriculture to transportation, processing, and handling.
What triggers mushroom formation?
Initiation is the process of mycelial growth and mushroom formation, where the substrate is fully colonized and shows signs of pinning. To initiate fruiting, lowering temperatures and increasing oxygen levels are generally encouraged. Initiation can be done through cold shocking, water shocking, or cutting a hole in the bag. Shiitake mushrooms respond well to shocking methods, such as soaking logs for 24 hours and inundating them with water. Cold shocking involves refrigeration for 12-24 hours, causing a strong pinset to form.
Shiitake blocks are then placed in a walk-in cooler for 12 hours before being stripped off to initiate fruiting. Unlike other species like lions mane, chestnut, oyster, and king oyster, plastic bags are cut to expose small areas to an oxygen-rich environment, directing energy to optimal fruiting locations. It is important to maintain high humidity when cutting bags, as different species have different methods.
What surfaces can mushrooms grow on?
Mushrooms grow on various substrates, including wood-loving species like chicken-of-the-woods, chaga, and oyster mushrooms, and decomposing organic matter on the forest floor. Cap and stem varieties like morel and chestnut mushrooms thrive on decomposing organic matter. Common button mushrooms thrive in nutrient-rich soil. Urban mushroom farms offer a reliable substrate with all necessary support, ensuring consistent growth and tidy conditions.
This allows for maximum yields by storing the substrate in climate-controlled rooms while the mushrooms grow. Urban mushroom farms provide a convenient and efficient way to grow and maintain a diverse range of mushrooms.
Do mushrooms need light to grow?
Mushrooms require a balanced light environment to grow optimally indoors, mimicking their natural habitats. Excessive direct sunlight or full sun exposure can be detrimental to their development. The ideal lighting condition is gentle, diffused illumination, like dappled light in a forest. Indirect sunlight, filtered through curtains or foliage, can provide the subtle cues needed for proper growth. Indoor mushroom cultivation presents challenges in providing consistent and appropriate lighting.
LED grow lights are a significant advancement in indoor cultivation technology, offering controlled light spectrums, energy efficiency, and long-lasting durability. These lights are engineered to emit wavelengths that replicate natural daylight conditions, which is crucial for mushrooms to thrive under. LED grow lights are designed to provide precise, controlled light spectrums, remarkable energy efficiency, and long-lasting durability.
Can you grow mushrooms from dried mushrooms?
Clone dried mushrooms by soaking them in sterile water for up to a day and then transferring them to a sterile growing medium. Heat-dried mushrooms may not grow as excessive temperatures can kill the mycelium. Cloning mushrooms is not as complicated as it seems, and can be done at home without expensive equipment. This article provides a step-by-step guide on how to clone mushrooms with agar, explaining the benefits of cloning and the process of cloning mushrooms.
What are the first signs of mushroom growth?
The mushroom pinning process involves the differentiation of mycelium and the formation of pins, which eventually develop into mature fruiting bodies or mushrooms. Early mushroom pinning is identified by small, white, or brownish protrusions on the substrate surface. Primordia and mushroom pins are often used interchangeably, but they refer to slightly different stages of the early fruiting process.
Primordia is the first stage where hyphae change and form a different structure that doesn’t like mycelium, while mushroom pins are the first to develop. Both stages are crucial in the mushroom production process.
Are dried mushrooms safe to eat?
Hong Kong’s Centre for Food Safety (CFS) has released a public service pamphlet titled “Food Poisoning Related to Mushrooms”, warning that soaking dried edible mushrooms can promote bacterial growth if not handled properly. The pamphlet highlights the importance of sourcing, storing, soaking, and cooking dried mushrooms, which are a staple in Asian families and are often used in Chinese dishes. The pamphlet emphasizes the need to buy from reputable sources and choose which mushrooms to eat raw or cook.
📹 Which Magic Mushrooms grow in your State?
How to Find and Identify Psilocybe, Gymnopilus and Panaeolus mushrooms which contains Psilocybin in your state, starts with …
2:34 Wine Cap (stropharia rugosoannulata) 3:25 Spring Fieldcap (agrocybe praecox) 4:14 Ravenel’s Stinkhorn (phallus ravenelii) 5:01 Bird’s Nest Fungi (crucibulum laeve) 5:44 Bolbitius sp. 6:21 Milky Conecap (conocybe apala) 7:21 Parasola sp. 8:09 Weeping Widow (lacrymaria lacrymabunda) 8:50 Mower’s Mushroom (panaeolus foenisecii) 10:01 Ringless Honey Mushroom (desarmillaria caespitosa) 10:55 Meadow Mushroom (agaricus campestris group, A. andrewii, A. argenteus, A. porphyrocephalus var. pallidus) 11:49 Giant Puffball (calvatia gigantea)
I absolutely LOVE your disclaimers and how you deal so professionally with the obvious haters who have commented in the past. Your speech is very clear, concise, and spoken at a perfect speed! I am so blessed to have found your website! My first venture online to research mushrooms, too! Thank you! 🙏🏻🇺🇸
Have been seeing Boles and White Cone Caps, in my straw mulch, veggie garden every morning. I love knowing that my efforts to bring this dry, barren, high desert land, back to life, is having a small impact. I may not have any edible ‘shrooms in my yard, but I’m eating up, and geeking out on all the incredible education you offer us, here on Learn Your Land. Much gratitude, Adam.
Today I harvested a couple of hen-of-the-woods, or miatake mushrooms, from my land. Gave a 4 pound specimen to a friend, the rest is in my dehydrator. Adam, every bit of information you give, gives us power to do what we need to be stewards of our land. Thank you for all your instruction and information.
Thanks to your awesome articles my wife and I have begun foraging for mushrooms this year! We have learned so much from you. So far we have gathered oyster, honey, turkey tail, lion’s mane, and reishi! We are really enjoying all the wonderful benefits God has provided through His creation! Again, thank you Adam for all you do.
U know what? That disclaimer was absolutely necessary and i just loved how you descibed everything in the disclaimer down to every nook n cranny. Heven’t seen the whole vid but hope that oysters are there on the list as i plan to make an oyster bed this time for growing, but hey if i follow the disclaimer and oyaters dont come up on the list, i wont be disappointed
Thank you for saying the phrase “mycological key” as that has helped me greatly in my research of making a comprehensive guide to the edible mushrooms that I am interested in so I can keep an eye on identification because I’ve been working on that for a while and I kept looking up dyconomis and that wasn’t really helping me but mycological was perfect
I’m new to mushroom hunting and so far I haven’t found any club close by but I have been studying and reading and perusal articles (almost exclusively yours) for months before I ever went out the first time to attempt to collect. And not thirty feet from my yard into the woods I found a large patch smooth chanterelle mushrooms. I only collected a couple and before I even prepare them I watch your article on identification and how to tell those from the jack-o’-lanterns again and I prepared one and ate a small amount and it was delicious. So thank you. Your website is great and I have a lot of time on my hands now because I’m out of work so I am giving myself sort of a course on mushrooms maybe soon when I get back to work I can get your online course. Thank you very much and keep up the good work!!! And by the way I live in Southeastern Coastal Georgia
Excellent article, as always. Thanks to you, I’m slowly but surely learning to identify mushrooms (and trees!) on my land and the mountains where we do some hunting. I had no idea how fascinating mushrooms truly were until their year when my yard and woods exploded with them. I was trying to identify a white mushroom (I now know is an amanita/death Angel) and ended up addicted to mycology. Thank you so much for giving us such an excellent education into the ecology of mushrooms. Truly fascinating.
I get tons of Puffballs all over my yard every year. I’ve never harvested them for food but I sure do love picking one up and giving it a good dropkick. They explode into a billion tiny little pieces and fall back to the ground like snow… that’s probably why I get so many puffballs is because I’m literally blasting their spores around my yard lmao
Hi Adam! Thanks for this fun article. Since a large portion of mushroom hunting involves tree identification; I am taking this time to beg you to speak out against volcano mulching. For ppl who do not know; this is a fairly recent new way of mulching trees and it is horrible! You will see it everywhere. Just look at a tree and if the mulch is piled up in a cone; that is volcano mulching. It weakens the tree, provides home for insects, and will shorten the tree’s lifespan.
This article came onto my feed at the right time. Within the last couple weeks I have begun to see those giant white puffball mushrooms. They are around the size of a soccer ball and there are many. From your information I assume that they would be edible. However I have 3 three dogs that use the my lawn as their restroom so I won’t be eating them. Too bad though as I wish I could try one.
Adam is starting to sound a bit jaded; wonder if itś the YouTube haters that have got him down? Has the sunshiny kid with long hair and a headband turned into a cynical dude with a buzz cut?? YOU RULE ADAM, DON”T LET THE HATERS GET YOU DOWN!! You are an integral part of my, and many many others, mushroom journeys. Thanks for being awesome!!
Hey there, western Pennsylvania boy! You might know John Royer of Leatherwood Outdoors in Clarion County. I interviewed him about wild mushrooms a few years ago. John was pretty insistent that ‘shroomers have at least three photo-heavy field guides and a lot of interactions with older gatherers. I guess his point was that there are old ‘shroomers, there are bold ‘shroomers, but there are no Old and Bold ‘shroomers. 😀
What he says about regions and the difference is totally true. In New Orleans they built the Saturn V rockets and Boeing moved a lot of people down from Seattle. There were a few times when rain brought smiles to the faces who had moved down here. They were looking at huge pine tree mushrooms just like they had in Washington state. They picked took them home to fix for their meals. Unfortunately they were the green spored lepiota. It was their last supper.
Adam first of all thank You as always for Your great articles . I forged for mushrooms since my early childhood in Poland however I feel more safe with Your website for referral and new info.Quick question-I encountered mushrooms that looked like polish parasol mushroom in near by state park however I didn’t feel feel secure enough in my knowledge. Now U mentioned false parasols. Any possibility to cover those 2 species ?Also can You maybe devote one time to cover species that can be actually inoculated to the Yards?I see adds with everything started from porcini and milk cap on to some exotic species on etsy’s. So scams or not? Your biggest fan-Aneta
Getting more on my list every year. My first Chanterelles I found on my lawn. Only 2, studied and the tried them. I found a bunch of black trumpets when scouting for deer. Picked some and brought them home, not sure if they were edible. I left them in my jacket pocket and they spoiled. Next time. I will know.
I’m almost positive I have some mowers mushroom culture growing on agar in my shop. There were little mushrooms growing in my yard so I took some of them and cloned them on agar. Maybe I’ll try fruiting them out to see if thats what it is. Because I forgot to document the actual mushrooms lol. Any advice on fruiting mushroom cultures on agar? I can never seem to get them to fruit on agar once they’re colonized
I have been fascinatinated by mycology since I was a kid,and realized that I could a watch a mushroom actually grow if I spent the time to be patient.Nothing beats morrells,and puffballs.My uncle used to pay us kids for em.depending on the size and texture,up to 20 bucks. Well done content.wish the world could understand that every thing is worth knowing…..
This past spring I had a ton of mushrooms I had never seen before in various areas of my yard. I thought it was a sign of good soil health. I was going to knock down some of them until I noticed a squirrel eating them. Free squirrel food! The one that freaked me out literally looks like dog barf… in fact, I think that’s its nickname. It looks like a big pile of barf but if you disturb it, it turns into a dusty substance that blows everywhere!
i have little orange mushrooms that grow in groups that are incredibly fragile. grows between number two and 3 on this list, theres also another nation of mushrooms that kind of look like panalous or galerina. theres some very white ones hanging out with number 8 on this list off way north of where these four are… warring?
I found your website when I was looking for someone that was in my general area (ish) after I moved and noticed my 1 acre yard produced more mushroom diversity than I had ever seen in southeast VA, (I even have several patches of ghost pipes!!) and I’m so glad I found ya! I only knew a few things but that amount has easily quadrupled. Your content is so easily ingested and processed (and you’re low key funny af) and for having adhd just know that doesn’t happen often in my learning patterns, you even immediately caught my 7 year old daughters ear and have inspired her to make her own mushroom articles ! She’s honing her skills and slowly learning not every red mushroom is not an amanita muscaria, and She thinks maybe one day you will probably “do a collab article with her once you see how great her articles are ” 😂 So thanks for doing what you do and doing it well!
After perusal some of your stuff, me and my wife got into this and did our first real foraging last weekend. We found a bunch of awesome stuff! We even found some eastern cauliflower mushroom that was the size of both hands and we can’t wait to try some of them!! We did grab an app and did spoore prints to be SUPER sure and are going to try a little at a time like suggested just to see how our bellies handle it. I’ve been vegan for over a year so I’m hoping my gut biome handles it well but super excited. Thank you for the awesome content!
we have mushrooms out side but I’m still too chicken s**t to eat them… would they even taste ok? … I was thinking using a pan, cut them in slices or small pieces, olive oil, garlic and salt… any recommendations? (like save the trip to the hospital and just buy a bag of mushrooms for 5.99 instead?)
IN my yard there ain’t no mushrooms cus its too dry I like those little brown tittie shaped ones they are hard to find in tall grass. But since the douth western drout Its hard for Mycillium to survive. Oh lots of the black spore prints are the fun ones. Pretty informative If i ever get to oregon or someplace with moist soil that I’ll keep an eyeout, WhooHoo
Thanks, very nice! One thing I’m wondering… I learned that the large “meadow” mushrooms were called “horse” mushroom, and the smaller version was the “meadow” mushroom, or “pinkies.” At any rate, they are nearly identical except for size, and yummy…and very distinctive, so an easy one to start with. If I find a bunch, I dry them, sometimes making a powder…but of course, I never pick all of them in a grouping, that’s just rude.
I just subbed your website. Great job, hope I can post professional quality content like yourself one day and get monetized. I left an earlier comment with a link to my website but I guess that’s not allowed Appears it was deleted. I purchased my first field guide and after much research and study found some Chanterelles could not believe how delicious they are. Keep forging and have a great day.
In the two days since I saw this, I’ve seen at least seven types of mushrooms, basically in lawns. I tried looking up how far we are from western Pennsylvania here in the Niagara peninsula, but according to the internet no crows and no seagulls fly from Erie Pennsylvania to Grimsby Ontario, and no human has ever sailed across Lake Erie to the Niagara peninsula. The only detectable migrational pattern is that of humans using a practice called “driving.” It’s amazing how quickly the mushrooms wax and wane, bursting into astonishing glory and then tip-toeing away. Well that and people mow them. Probably the same people who do that thing called driving. Oops, read this to my wife and she reminded me that I’m not supposed to saying anything bad about cars for one week. D’oh.
Wait…so are the stinkhorns what become what we called “Smoke bombs” as a kid? They were these very light, almost paper coated ball things that blew out a brown “smoke” when we stepped on them. This was on the border of PA and NY. I’ve never known what they were, I just knew that finding them as kids was rare and we thought it was the coolest thing.
Honey Mushrooms are honestly the tastiest mushrooms available imo. As far as conocybe mushroom toxicity goes, it really comes down to how hard you push your liver. If you drink alcohol, have a daily medicine that’s metabolized by the liver, or love the fatty foods, they’re probably something you should consider toxic. If you don’t do those things… it might be alright.
A little something to share. We have had Amanita Muscaria grow by our pine trees about every other year or so, we get one or two. This spring we put a compost pile near where they usually pop up. In the last week we have had five of them pop up around the compost bin, which is about fifteen feet from where they usually pop up. I am wondering if the compost pile could be leaching nutrients in to the soil and in turn feeding the mycelium and giving the energy for the fruiting bodies to bloom so abundantly, near the compost pile? Interesting? I see that they could be made into a tea, but way to nervous to try, it is a Amanita. Any thoughts?
I live in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Your article may have helped me to identify two mushrooms that I found growing in my yard. One day, not too long ago, I found a single one that looked like the meadow mushroom. I picked it, washed, sliced, and added it to a green lettuce salad. The taste was so fresh. The second mushroom looked like the horn mushroom, and was growing next to a fern. Actually, there were two of them. However, they were so ugly, that I dug them up today, and composted them. You mentioned that they were edible though, but I don’t think that I would want to eat them.
Me and my daughter went on our first mushroom hunt this past weekend in Ohio and found some chicken of the woods. And turkey tail. We made soup out of the cotw, and fried some too. She loves them and ate a bunch over the weekend. We had a great time, and already loved being out in nature cause she loves birdwatching; as do I. But were really loving our newfound hobby. Also thanks to you, as well as haphazard homestead. You both gave really inspired us to take this up. I’ve watched almost all your uploads, and hope with autumn upon us to see more content from you. Again I cant thank you enough!
I have been perusal your articles for a while now. I love them, but hate the fact that you are in the eastern part of USA. Would you please move here to the west coast, specifically Pacific Northwest so I can learn more about the mushrooms we have here? We have more mushrooms here than Pennsylvania…
There is an incredible abundance of mushrooms here in the Poconos this year because of all the rain and some of them right here on my land. ALL of the ones I harvested this summer have been infested with maggots. Even the ones that are just emerging are infested. It makes me wonder if the infestation occurs in the substrate rather than after emergence. I put all mushrooms in salted water and within 5 minutes dozens of small maggots sink to the bottom of the pot.
I live close to DE, in PA, and have been driving myself crazy trying to find out what species of mushrooms invaded my front yard about 5 years ago. They were living under oak trees, mostly up next to the stump. They were HUGE. Like waves of orange cabbage. But bigger than a cabbage. Marigold/orange/brown and that rippling cap – maybe 12″ or more across? They came up overnight after a few hard days of rain. Anyone have any ideas? I wouldn’t ask only you said PA and I cannot find them mentioned anywhere.
Cool. I was hoping to see the one that grew in my parents’ lawn when I was a kid. And I did. I believe it is the meadow mushroom. We always wondered what kind they were. But we also knew that a mistake in identifying them could be serious if we tried eating them. So, we left them alone. It’s nice to know what they theoretically were, though. PS My parents stil live there. Probably so do the mushrooms still. I think I’ll send them this article. They would probably enjoy it. Thanks for the awesome article!
The best edibles that I found in our yard are fairy ring champignon mushrooms (Marasmius oreades ). Other edibles I also found (but not yet eaten): Mica Cap / Glistening Ink Cap (Coprinellus micaceus) Puffball (not completely sure what species it was) In terms of inedible species I’ve also found a couple of LBMs, Lepiotas, and an expired purplish/brown gilled mushroom (could have been a cortinarius)
I worked at a farmers market years ago and one day they brought in a massive puffball (like 2’ across) from the woods edging a field. I’d never seen them other than a paper-thin shell we used to kick in the woods. A friend took a hunk home and fried it up in butter and we had a real feast. Never had the like since.
Hi Adam. I just found out about the fungus world and your website after perusal the Netflix documentary “Fantastic Fungi” and have already purchased Lion’s Main. This is just a incredible topic!! I live on Cape Cod, MA and walk almost every day on the bike path and through the woods, I see some mushrooms but not that many different species. Another day I found something that looks like turkey tail, it was very dark brown, thick, and leathery, besides that, just the regular white ones and some other ones that look like frog’s umbrella. Your knowledge amazes me, as well as your attention to details on your articles. Thanks for sharing! Happy holidays!
Thank you so much for mentioning which region you’re in! I nearly always know anything here about plants or gardening doesn’t apply to my area because I live in central east Texas (and even just saying “Texas” isn’t enough because there are up to 5 different areas here with their own differences) and at the least, the weather here isn’t as cold as anything from say Mobile, Alabama up, but it’s nice to know exactly where you are referring to.
I have actually eaten the milky cone and the ink cap not much of a tatse to either when fresh. And I did notice a mild delirium effect for myself the reason I tried them was a friend of a friend who seemed to know thier stuff. Who said they were ok but I now realize he didn’t have the best intentions definitely not worth trying just a slight toxic feeling and remarkably tasteless. Do your own research don’t just take someone’s word for it.
I’ve tried my darndest to research the different shrooms on our land (seems a new one shows up every year). Regarding the meadow shrooms from what I could find on the “pink gills” (apparently they’re called “pinkies”) it says those are not edible. I don’t know and can’t find any old timers that know this in my area of TN. They’re gorgeous little mushrooms and I’ve gotten rid of SO many it’s maddening to think they’re edible since I use shrooms in A LOT of my dishes. A friend gave me 2 shroom books for my birthday last year but I’m not confident enough yet to make sure I’m looking at each mushroom properly. I guess more research is necessary.
I’m “gettin’ what you’re putting down”. Thank you, for doing so- as this will weed out the “instant gratification”, somewhat anyways. Acknowledgement & admittance, when it comes to the “Ads”, too! THIS, is 1 of the major reasons behind, “Why” I continue to follow you! #Ethics #Morales #Principles #Integrity & #AuthenticCharacter! Others, (who are/want to- “use YouTube as a Marketing/Promoting platform”) ..MIGHT, want to take some notes! ….or not. (IF- they, “choose not to”, well- it’s THEIR #PersonalEthics, #PersonalCharacter, #PersonalValues, #PersonalMorales & #Ego/#Pride that’s, “just going to ‘HAVE TO’, get ‘hurt’ in the process of- ‘trying to get big on YouTube’.”) Not anyone ELSE’S. What “the news”/”the mainstream media”, FAILS to “inform YOU” OF…. It’s YOUR “#OnlineRapport”, that’s “gonna ‘HAVE TO’, suffer..” (#PsychologicallySpeakingOfCourse)
I’ve had a whole bunch of large, bright yellow mushrooms pop up recently on my property. The flamboyant size and color make them a fun and welcome visitor, but I haven’t identified them with any certainty (maybe Yellow Patches (Amanita flavoconia)?), because A: I’m no expert, and B: there’s too darn many mushrooms in the world.
I recently got into identifying mushrooms and it was crazy to see how many different kinds were in my backyard alone. I found an amanita muscaria, a dead man’s foot mushroom, amanita vaginata, and a couple I can’t remember at the moment. Normally I’d just overlook them but now I actively look for mushrooms
Kuh-NAW-so-bee, got it! I have been pronouncing it KAW-no-sibe. I have seen bird’s nest fungus in my yard here in the southern part of Idaho, but nothing else from this list. I was excited to find some rubber cup kind of fungi a few times. I have a lot of mulched areas, and have been thinking about inoculating the yard with garden giants.
Adam I am so impressed with your knowledge of mushrooms. There is so much to learn. I feel like I am letting food go to waste because I don’t have a clue what I am looking at when it comes to mushrooms. I have TONS of them on my property and I feel so guilty not knowing what I should know. I just purchased this property (5 acres) last year. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. I just discovered some huge golden colored mushrooms that were growing at the base of a cut down oak tree. My chickens discovered them. They have gills underneath. I don’t want to eat anything that I am not positively sure of what it is. These mushrooms are in a large cluster and have a white stem. The flowerey looking head of the mushroom is gold with darker gold in the center. Any thoughts anyone?
Hey Adam! Many thanks and blessings to you for all your beneficial wisdom 🙏 I live in a close neighboring state to you and was wondering if you have worked with or know anything about Meshima mushrooms? I am pretty sure I have found some throughout the mountains while out harvesting but can’t be positive. The Google images look super similar, but many differ due to color/clarity of the screen. Is there anyway you may could do a article on this mushroom or at least help guide me in the right direction as to getting a positive ID on one and it’s uses. I have a plant ID app, however it doesn’t seem to pick it up either. Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙂 Love and light 🙏
Thank you Adam for another interesting and informative presentation. I do have a question: you mentioned that the could be introduced into gardens where they don’t yet exist, such as mine in Northern West Virginia. Can you share sources of things that would allow me to do this? Thanks again for your fascinating presentations.
Today I foraged on my wet 10 acres and found 3 more sites with white oysters but not like the large one 3 days ago (over 8 oz harvested). I found a single pure white stinkhorn growing right by my pond. I found a single winecap. Then I found a live maple that has a couple square feet of a softish shelf mushroom that is white top and bottom and has incredibly small polypores. I have enormous amounts of ones I have never seen before including past years on my own 10 acres. With the high amounts of tropical rain we here in New Hampshire have enjoyed this year, it’s no wonder.
ive cultivated a lot of differant fungi but the pne i havent seen or been able to grow is the morel i also collect differant cactibut some turkeytail and oyster mushrooms of differant collors the odd desert plants i collect i have one desert plant that looks like lip mushrooms hardly visiable in the wild annoj1323
Here is a tip on Liberty Caps in Willamette area at least. There is an imposter that resembles the cap 99.9%; The only difference is the bottom of the cap. If it white or whiteish, you have an Oregon no High :0(. The Liberty Cap will be dark blackish; And it is this one that will seriously make you smile :0).. Have a good day all
Are your ears burning? I was just talking about you last night to my husband and thought that a article should pop up soon. We would have received rain from the same recent weather systems even though I am up in eastern Ontario. There are mushrooms everywhere finally. I have all different types but still too chicken to eat any of them. I actually am 99% sure of all of them but still, I would like a professional to come and confirm things for me. A couple of days ago, I found an undisturbed shaggy mane that was completely open and a perfect combo of white and black with a rich black rim. I wish I could show you the photo. It’s beautiful. I think I may start an instagram just for my nature photos, if I ever find the time! Thanks for another great chat.
After perusal you talk about the ringless honey mushrooms, I think those are what comes up in my yard every year in the same spots where I cut down some trees many years ago. They must be fruiting from the buried stump wood. They grow in extremely dense clusters, and look exactly like your picture. I will do more research when they come up this year, before I try to eat them. I have eaten the regular honey mushrooms in the past, the ones with the ring on them and they are really good.
I’ve had a very tall spindly almost hair like stem, tiny species of mushroom grow in an abandoned bird feeder I made out of the bottom of a plastic bottle that had built up debris in it over time – and it fruited twice! Not edible ofc, but I saw it fruiting again a while after the first time I saw it – mushrooms really do grow everywhere. When I took photos of it you could barely see the stem/tiny caps. Wish I knew what species it was.
Hello Adam Harrington, I am a little kid and I’m just eight years old and I live in Oregon so which mushrooms do you recommend finding because you live in western Pennsylvania and I even live in Western Oregon so yeah I like your websites and stuff, so yeah Adam Harrington, so what do you say about the mushrooms and I also like plants and stuff like hardly ever heard him about the Kong mushroom I think you have yeah how do you heard at some mushrooms, are very chewing hard and stuff
Place your own mask over your mouth before helping your child’s. Place the metal portion of the buckle in the… heh heh. But yeah, I know it’s necessary to stick the provisos up front. Love the comment about the ads. Ads probably kill far more people than mushrooms do. I listen to Adam not just for the specific plants but for an overall ethos that’s about situating ourselves in the larger picture.
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I live in the city of Houston in a very urban/residential area and my neighbors have a meticulously landscaped lawn. For an entire month, Gilled Boletes were popping up all over their yard. I pointed them out to the family and they were like “oh yah were trying to figure out how to get rid of those. I then lectured them for 10 minutes on how cool it is that they have boletes and showed them the “magic trick” cutting one so they could watch it turn blue. They were not as excited as I was so I stole some caps and scattered them around my yard in an inoculation attempt.
About to eat me some nice chicken of the woods I found scouting local area of woods. Last week had a beautiful big volleyball size puff ball first time trying and it was not bad very unique texture and taste! Much appreciated as always though thank you so much as because of these article I now comfortably can go out and find some beauty food from my land and incorporate it in my diet! Peace and love
what about mushrooms that grow in, flower pots, or in my case flower baskets (i fill with dirt, and often put some cling wrap in the bottom before hand). because i have mushrooms in there, that i have attempted, to put into another pot so i could have a little mushroom garden, and i wanna know what it is. i think it grew from the mold in the baskets. i like the mold, it’s good for my flowers. i have this little friendship going on between my plants, fungi, and the springtails. they work together amazingly!
Thanks a lot I have learned a lot from your articles. I’m north of Pittsburgh town called Dubois. I have 3 field guides. So far been learning a lot . I did have honeys growing in my yard last year ring honeys had white spores. I’m just not ready to take the leap and eat any yet. I have eaten medow mushrooms have been for years. Found some what i was thinking was oyster white.. But my field guide says they where angels do not eat. ok thank u for all you do.
Hello- I have a question Where are you in this article at times it looks like it could be in my old back yard in Chicago land- now in minn within a good hikes is the BWCA – somewhat looking the same here as well but with some different wild flowers mushrooms wildlife etc i am fairly new to your website and havent picked up on location and not sure if you travel or if this is simply in your state area -Thank you ahead of time -Paul .
I live in the desert southwest—very hot and dry—where you would think there would be no mushrooms. But we do have sprinkler systems, and even though it seldom rains, when it does there are always a few hardy mushrooms that pop up and occasionally there is an enormous fungus that shows up at the base of my peach tree.
Well, Adam, you don’t “know” me personally but, after hearing you say that there is no one that you know who eats this mushroom, I just wanted to mention that I have eaten some Agrocybe praecox (after doing extensive research and cooking them extra well). The taste and texture weren’t great but I wasn’t eating them for taste and texture. I was mostly after compounds that could potentially be interesting for medicinal properties, and the joy of foraging and eating what grows in my area. ☺
THE MEADOW MUSHROOM! So that’s the one I saw after it rained for so long! It was my first time ever seeing a mushroom and when I saw it next to my swing I was so happy but then I got deterred from it because my background knowledge of parasitic fungi. As of late though I’ve been learning more and more about mycology because I’m a big fan of fairy core and goblin core but I need to know more before I make a literal fungus part of my aesthetic. 😂