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Mushroom foraging in UK | October vlog 3

flora funga & mia 𓋼𓍊

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Set to highest quality! Quite a long mini vlog but it was a looong walk. Was a prime day on saturday for fungi but seems to have been a bad season for Porcini (boletus edulis) around here. Quite a few different fungi in this vid so I made some chapters. There are a few species of parasol in UK, some likely under recorded, so my ID might not be species accurate. & If anyone has alternate suggestions to ID’s, i’m happy to hear them! 🙏🏼

This is just a guide where I am sharing my knowledge, not giving advice. I have been mushroom foraging for 5 years & I do spend a lot of time researching and cross checking my sources, but there is still so much more to learn and I forage with caution. Please also do your own research if you want to forage and consume wild fungi & plants. It’s not safe to ‘assume’, you need to be 100% sure & seek opinions.

0:00 Intro
0:19 The blusher
0:41 P.semilanceata & dragonfly
0:58 winter chanterelle
2:05 beech sickener
3:00 what i’m looking for
3:15 hedgehog fungus
4:17 a good tip
4:39 terracotta hedgehog
5:09 amethyst deceiver
6:09 butter caps
6:31 more blushers
6:46 rutting stag?!
7:24 fly agaric
7:48 common puffball
8:30 magical oak tree
9:26 clouded funnel
9:49 ranting & orange bolete
11:44 more fly agaric
12:59 new fungi find
13:25 amanita egg
14:07 panther cap
15:19 destroyed hen
16:00 brown birch bolete
16:40 more mushrooms
17:23 honey fungus
17:49 bay bolete
18:49 beefsteak
19:54 parasol
20:29 talking :)

#foraging #fungi #mushroomhunting #wildfood #mushrooms

20 Comments

@jamescodling8641 1 year ago

So true. Some whole have little to know awareness of others around them. The amount of times I've said hi to other foragers only to be met with silence. Makes you feel like a fool. Nice vid. Thank you

@armchairraver7488 2 weeks ago

Just stumbled across your channel very interesting ... The lovely smile helps explaining the shrooms you come across. Binge watch another interesting channel foraging foods learning skills we as a race have lost threw out the generations..

@aaronlvx 1 year ago

It nice to learn about mushrooms, but also your energy is very calm. :) It's relaxing to watch the videos.

@franklynhicken8007 1 year ago

Yorkshire is a good place, all the surrounding countryside is amazing, seaside air, farms, country paths etc.

@SquatchSis-0522 1 year ago

I'm loving the video, and I'm only 5 minutes 27 seconds in. I've got a little tidbit of info on top of your tip that you just gave it's about cutting off the bottom. Take a sharp knife with you and cut into the ground leaving that dirty little nap in the ground because that tasty morsel is really a flower and if you pluck it completely it will not come back at the same spot.
When we pluck and take we basically just leave a trace amount of the spores it would naturally leave. You find yourself a good fairy ring and follow it around, shaving them all off at the ground and then you know you can go back the next year to the same fairy ring. ❤
I live in Boring Oregon, which basically borders on the Mt Hood National Forest. There used to be lots of beautiful golden chantrell mushrooms up Wildcat Mt Rd and now they are really hard to find because people have no idea they are basically killing off a nature born , reliable food source that would normally be safely counted upon. Usually, the creatures that eat any type of fungus come nowhere close to plucking them completely up and gone like we do.

@remorafilms 1 year ago

Thanks for the info! This is brill.

@ScottMason-ss8ww 1 year ago

Great vids, beautiful fungi and a gorgeous red head, what else do you want?! Thank you Mia, very informative! I know liberty caps and parsols, the rest I need a book to identify for eating.

@vicentvcv 1 year ago

I live in Menorca island and here we are in the middle of the mushroom season. In fact, a few minutes ago I just arrived from picking up a basket of Cantarellus cibarius. There is a lot of mushroom picking culture here and if it rains enough, we usually collect until December. Lactarius, pleurotus, cantharellus, hitnum, leccinum etc.

@HomeSickAlienJayman 1 year ago

Oh good a new mushroom girl on the block. Your good, like your style, well shot, informative and very watchable, 20 mins is a perfect length too. Enjoyed, hope to see more, subbed.

@andypayne1571 1 year ago

Have just started mushroom foraging with my son and his girlfriend and we are at the beginner stage of ID only for 99per cent and only eat the really really obvious but just going out finding and IDing them is great fun and something I thought my son would never be into so that's a bonus as well. Loved this vlog and going to subscribe and the watch the others, thankyou.

@Kaison-pr9ms 11 months ago

I understand about forcing yourself to be friendly etc, I'd never make you feel awkward, stay positive x

@mattanderson9029 1 year ago

Thank you 🙏🏻 😊

@MagicPocketsMusic 1 year ago

great video, some really nice finds

@keithellis4940 1 year ago (edited)

You got a new sub - loving your chilled vibes; your connection with, and respect for the woods, and the tree spirits 😊

Moved out to the middle of Kent from London last month and been feeling a little overwhelmed, and just realised that Ive not been out foraging in nature this Autumn...definitely had an impact on my mind...and watching your vids helps me to feel grounded, so thank you!

Looking forward to exploring my new surrounds, maybe next week and then into 2025 - I know there must be loads of nice new spots around me to explore.

@TransitFan1 1 year ago

That is such a lovely part of the land. Easy to see how the hours could fly by out there. Some people think they are still in primary school, ' Don't talk to strangers'. Though if you were ever to meet me on your travels Mia you would see some doe eyed goon, jaw dropped, struggling to think of something cool to say 😆.

@salfordlad4557 1 year ago

Just found your channel and really enjoyed this. I have been foraging for for nearly 20 years and it has been really great to see so many people take up this amazing activity in the last few years. I could go for years foraging in northern England in the early 2000s without ever seeing another fellow forager! It is for that reason I always say hello and enjoy a chat with others. You have a new subscriber.

@flowercoal7382 1 year ago

The sound you heard was a fallow deer buck mating call.

@rm9719 11 months ago (edited)

What an absolutely stunning setting!. I forage regularly in king's forest and Thetford forest .I'm a smidge below your level of mycology,but let me know if you're down this way. It's the nuts for fungi my other half has just bought me an embarrassingly camp basket for my birthday butnits keeping my shrooms intact and fresh. Plus I've found tonnes of bay boletes. No porchini as yet though happy foraging and a great channel