In this video Aaron Hilliard, VP of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society and Mushroom Wonderland creator, takes a walk into a beautiful forest in the Pacific Northwest with a mycologist from Eugene, OR Sidnee Obersingleton. He runs a laboratory at the University of Oregon where he studies the fungal associations with leaf cutter ants, among other special interest projects. He is also on the leading edge of 'fluorescent microscopy,' a fairly new science. And he is great at mushroom identification, which you will see in this video.
If you are anyone in the mycological community you have surely heard his name thrown around, and he is quite popular in the Identification groups on Facebook.
I was honored to walk and find about a dozen species of mushrooms growing wild, and to get Sidnee to describe and talk about them all. We talk about everything from super common tree conchs to quite rare edible and medicinal delicacies like Reishi and Lions mane mushrooms.
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