you
if you open an old book and you start
reading fairytales you'll probably
notice a trend the tales of princesses
the forest and the forest trolls all
have a place as do the mushrooms and a
make no mistake the fungi are great for
the forest and great for the forest
health but our perception of them is
based on our culture depending where
you're from this here may be how
mushrooms are portrayed often is it when
you stop and wonder that what do you
suppose mushrooms arise associated with
eerie environments and poisonous potions
I mean what's the deal with that what do
you think it's such a bad rip I think
we're gonna have to explore a little bit
more about mushrooms it's important to
remember as we discussed mushrooms that
the mushroom itself is just the fruiting
body of the fungi and not all fungi have
fruiting bodies
there are several broad categories that
define this kingdom the major types of
fungi are usually divided up by their
reproductive structures and if we look
at those different types we'd find four
major groups the first are the
basidiomycota the club fungi they're
what most people think of when they
think mushrooms then we have the
ascomycota or the sack fungi they
include the morals and truffles on bread
you'll often find bread molds like the
zygomycosis then in moist soil or
occasionally parasitizing frogs you'll
find the kitchen to my Kota so there's
several types but what you'll see in a
forest on a stroll are usually the club
fungi and sack fungi the rest are just
very small just remember most of what
you're seeing are the fruiting bodies
only a small piece of the fungi take
that away and the fungi still remain the
major part of the fungus is actually in
the form of the mycelium which lives in
this log see mycelium are little fibers
that strewed through all throughout this
wood and break it down as it breaks down
the wood
it breaks down nutrients and it gets
recycled back into the forest what's
left over that's food for the fungus
when conditions are right the mighty
that I'm formed together then make a
diploid fruiting body which is basically
what we got here
for you so now we're in the mountains of
North Idaho and we're gonna look for
mushrooms how many kinds of mushrooms
are here in this forest here 5003 what
really like 5,000 oh my gosh a rough
figure we give and not at any one time
but there right there mycelium is all
through the soil all the time why do you
think there's so many people out there
that don't like mushrooms because they
don't know anything about it well
because in that warm and fuzzy for one
without mushrooms you wouldn't have a
forest I just think they're neat too
pretty and they're all over and they're
all so beautiful and it's fun I'm still
learning which ones are the good ones
and which ones the bad was good even
seen a bad one is fun they're kind of
like tuning their instinct on a hunting
dog even when the green wow those are
cool tonight these are supposed to be
wonderful but I don't love it why they
say it smells a little bit like apricot
kind of I think it smells like dirt
these are edible honey
they're very good mmm put sugar on it
they're so yummy now there's lots of
things you can do to learn more about
mushrooms here are some suggestions you
can join a community mushroom Club that
way you have all the resources at your
fingertips for local mushrooms you know
it can take years to be a professional
mushroom identifier so it's really
important that you can't just go through
the forest and just pick up any
mushrooms and start eating it because
you could really get sick or you could
even kill yourself so for right now just
stick with the mushrooms they're found
in the store and as always from the
mountaintops to the mushroom forests we
encourage you to never stop exploring
your world
thanks for joining us as I try to get a
bunch of stuff we shot a long time ago
out before we start really pushing the
new stuff a couple of things to note I'm
going to push this for a year as hard as
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