Winter Mushroom Hunting: Get your Hedgehogs!

This is another foraging video brought to you by KPMS vice president and creator of Mushroom Wonderland, Aaron Hilliard.
We take a look at several wild mushrooms that you can find growing in the winter months here in the beautiful Pacific Northwest of the USA. I can not say as to whether they may or may not be growing in your neck of the woods, as the world is a big place and who knows where you are, haha.
The main highlight of this video in my opinion has got to be a beautiful patch of Hydnum oregonense or maybe they are Hydnum umbilicatum, older field guides and generic European taxonomy would probably call them Hydnum repandum. These is a good chance that these are none of the above and could perhaps be a rare or un-described species, as these "hedgehog mushrooms" have not been studied too well here in the Pnw.
Regardless, it has got to be one of my favorite wild edibles because of its meaty texture that hold up well to a good cooking, its sweet earthy flavor(earning it another common name-the 'Sweet tooth). This mushroom demands high prices at the market, and had virtually no look alikes, all mushrooms in the hydnum genus are edible and excellent.
We also look at some potentially dangerous Gyromitra influa, a toxic ascomycete growing here in the NW in winter on new construction sites and disturbed soil.
We also run across some Pleurotus Ostreatus, a cosmopolitan tree loving mushroom that is also a great and choice edible when fresh. Commonly known as the "Oyster Mushroom," these handsome saprotrophs deserve a welcome place at the dinner table.
Another mushroom we take a look at and collect is the "Winter Chanterelle," or Craterellus tubaeformis. A delicious woodland edible, a mycorrhizal conifer forest loving delight with a bright yellow base- earning it another common name, the "yellow-foot."

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Aaron Hilliard
Mushroom Wonderland
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