These 25 Types Of Mushrooms Are Grown Around The World For Both Food and Medicine
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- Published on Jan 28, 2020
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Mushrooms are incredibly diverse!!
25 Types Of Mushrooms:
1. Button Mushrooms (Agaricus bisporus)
2. Agaricus Blazei (Agaricus subrufecens)
3. Piopinno (Agrocybe aegerita)
4. The Wood Ear (Auricula auricula)
5. Milky Mushroom (Calocybe indica)
6. Shaggy Mane (Coprinus comatus)
7. Cordyceps (Cordyceps militaris)
8. Enoki (Flamulina velutipes)
9. Reishi (Ganoderma lucidum)
10. Maitake (Grifola frondosa)
11. Lion's Mane (Hericium erinaceus)
12. Shimeji (Hypsizygus tessellatus)
13. Shiitake ( Lentinula edodes)
14. Morel (Morchella esculenta)
15. Chestnut (Pholiota adiposa)
16. Nameko (Pholiota nameko)
17. Pink Oyster (Pleurotus djamor)
18. King Oyster (Pleurotus eryngii)
19. White Elf Cap (Pleurotus nebrodensis)
20. Oyster (Pleurotus ostreatus)
21. Yellow Oyster (Pleurotus citrinopileatus)
22. Wine Cap (Strapharia rugosoannulata)
23. Turkey Tail (Trametes versicolor)
24. Tremella (Tremella fuciformis)
25. Paddy Straw (Volvariella volvacea)
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I can't believe I watched a 14 min video on mushroom varieties. Amazing video really enjoyed it.
Lol... you can spend MONTHS watching these videos
mushroom my love❤️❤️
Oh this channel is what got me obsessed with muchrooms. I spent almost 5 hours yesterday going to different grocers, literally because I could not find blue fresh non dried shitake mushrooms for a meal lmao. You'll get there quick lol
thanks so mush for watching!!
Quarantine got me learning more than when I was in school.
I'm sorry your former education was sub par.
Facts.
Best comment I seen in a while 👍🏼💥🔥💚
Right?! Lol. Same here
As a former forestry student I've always objected to how people call every edible fungus a "mushroom". Mushrooms have a stem and cap by definition. Many of the edible fungi are not mushrooms but bracket fungi or jelly fungus. But I can understand how that might not sound as appealing haha! Call them what you will, I like to call them by their nicknames. "Hen of the woods" and "wood ear" are the neatest sounding names.
so a truffle isnt a mushroom?
at least it is a fun gi!
@Dewkeeper I would very much enjoy having some ascocarps and basidiocarps on my pizza.
is hen of the woods like chicken of the sea?
Well it sure is hell of a lot better than 'fruiting body' *shiver*. "Oh hey want me to add some fungal fruiting bodies to your pizza?"
Perhaps the word itself needs refinement? I'm new to this stuff, but it seems like a more useful way to use "mushroom" would be to mean the fruiting part of a mycelium.
You raised my knowledge of some edible mushrooms by leaps and bounds...thank you. Was wondering why no one ever mentions the corral mushroom. They are delicious and they grow in my local park woods every year.
You didn't mention one of my favorites...chanterelles! I used to collect them in the Bay Area of SF & sell them to restaurants! Super delicious!!!
@Dewkeeper Thanks for the info, truffles are also mycorrhizal and they're grown to! :) I hope someday chanterelles are cultivated
@Alberto Garcia Sewjee portobello are not saprophytic like an oyster.
he was talking about mushrools you cultivate, or can grow reliably. Chanterelles, and even morels, dont really fit in that category, although as he says there are some advances in cultivating morels that are worth taking a look at
YES chanterelle
@Alberto Garcia Sewjee slippery jacks are also mycorrhizal boletes but they're grown in appropriate pine plantations. The rule isn't set in stone. 👍
I remember my mom buying a box of grow your own button mushrooms. We had a perfect cold dark stone basement so they grew like crazy. I remember as a kid walking down into the basement every day to go check on them. This really makes me want to go out a buy another grow kit 🥰
Thanks for this video, very informative.
In the past we often found Ramaria formosa, an excellent edible mushroom.
Do you have some data about him too?
I spent some years in China and I was and still am amazed at how we can find most of the mushrooms that he mentioned on supermarkets, specially gourmet supermarkets there...
I specially loved the Nameko (orange and slimy) mushrooms added to soups, it gives the soup an amazing taste and texture. Another rare mushroom that I loved there was this "Strawberry Mushroom", or Paddy Mushroom, but you need to but and use it immediately... It spoils really quick. You just need to cut it in half to use it.
I can buy about half these mushrooms in my regular supermarket here in China.
I went down the rabbit hole and watched several, hours of, videos and feel like i have a reasonable beginners handle on growing my first batch. Thanks for the great videos.
Very interesting. I find a lot of them in the wild, Agaricus, Auricularia, Coprinus, Flammulina, Ganoderma, Trametes, Volvariella… (some I didn't know they were cultivated!). However for beginners it's safer to find them at the grocery store.
very true!
It’s all very well you explaining how many mushrooms you know of that you can cultivate, but do you know any of their uses? Like what are they good for apart from just eating and for your general health. Also wood ear tastes great cut up small and used as a pizza topping, very good for ear aches and sore throats, makes you feel happier too.
Yes, totally, I should do a video of a broad overview of the uses :)
This video was awesome! I’m glad to know about these varieties, but sad I won’t be able to get a lot of them give the short shelf life 😔
I was hoping to learn more about chicken Of the woods or lobster mushroom, hopefully a part 2 of this video will emerge
Yes definitely!! This video focused on mushrooms you can grow- which is why we didn't talk about some like lobster mushroom etc.
I love Lion's Mane. In Chinese, it's also known as Monkey's Head. It has a nice meaty texture and down here in Malaysia, it is used a lot as a 'mutton substitute' in Chinese vegetarian restaurants.
I just went plant based, I’m loving mushrooms as a meat substitute. Really want to try all of these! Curious to try the lobster mushrooms.
Try Chicken of the Woods!
I found a huge patch of morels when I was like 9 years old, but I didn't know what it was and thought it was an alien infestation and I ran away in terror.
You may laugh but the Haida indigenous of the North consider fungi to be the poop of shooting stars! So your childhood theory reminded me of otherworldly origin myth
Lol😂😂
One of my favorites is "Sparassi crispa"(cauliflower mushroom), tastes amazing when breaded and fried, they can also be cultivated.
I didn’t know of this one! Thank you !
Awesome video! I am from nothern Italy and pioppini mushrooms grow really well here, and they are insanely good to eat! Also, thanks to your channel and your informations, I started growing them at home and they grow up real good!
Very informative! Thanks a lot .
I never would know there were so many edible mushrooms.
Thank you for this, I really need to learn more about mushrooms because I love foraging so I need to safe cause I get excited at seeing any shroom when I’m out about. I’m definitely going to grow some, my friend grows them. When you are vegan, mushroom is your meat, I love it.
It makes me wonder how many species I've eaten without ever knowing their names in Austrian and Asian cuisine...
From what I've heard, meat became a really fancy commodity in Feudal to early modern central Europe and that's one major reason why they were eating so many mushrooms. Later, potatoes and a few other plants supplemented their diet, but before it wasn't too much fun...
I have to disagree with you about wood ear, it's great in soup. It has a squid-like texture which could make it a possible squid substitute. It's commonly used in hot pots, noodles and other soups but I've never seen it used in any western dishes.
What about puffballs? I have super fond memories of those around the farm including one singularly massive one!
We used to go popping them as they dried out to spore.
Have you tried cauliflower mushrom cultivation? They taste amazing, grows on living pine trees.
I've watched many of your videos and I am completely amazed. I have a suggestion, you touch on it lightly in many of your videos but as you go through your list of mushrooms, maybe you could show how the mushrooms are cooked. Share some recipes.
In Southern Vietnam, they have a mushroom called Macrolepiota albuminosa or termite mushroom. It is found growing from termitaria in grassy fields, hills. I heard that it is super tasty and has a high value in the market.
My gosh, that reishi is such a beautiful specimen. I'm floored every time I see it
It really would've been much more interesting if you`d had gone into depth a little bit on what perhaps makes every mushroom unique especially the medicinal ones.
noted- more videos to come!
you forgot psilocybe cubensis, beautiful mushroom indeed. edible and medicinal ;)
@Brandon Cline the albino is just a sub species ☝I prefer Golden Teacher
hmm 🤔
Medicinal indeed very
Yepppppppp (^_^)
@Brandon Cline ok?
It is interesting to see mushrooms from all over the world :) all so different than those where i live
I loved going into the woods together with my dad and collecting mushrooms.
I love this video , and I have been a mushroom lover since I was a kid, I use to get those small or good sizes popping out on grass open air paddocks,field those days early morning and gives a hint when its raining and thunder next day you go and see them plenty popping out in the field and for those people know this they are around as early as 6am ,it was a good experience and fun😀👍🏻
Lions mane is like forest coral 💜💜 I've never had it but love the way it looks!
I work part time at the produce section in a supermarket in Japan. The Japanese really love their mushrooms 😁
I usually collect the wild variety of the king oyster mushroom (Pleurotus eryngi) and it has nothing to do with the fat-stem cultivated variety. The wild variety is almost completely a cap, and the texture and taste is vastly superior.
totally true! When I grow them outside, they are completely different in look and taste
Just found this. Very educational.
It's great to find people focused and sharing such knowledge. Thank you.
Can you please make some videos of how you cook each individual types of mushrooms and the medicinal purposes. I've learned a few ways of cooking each types from my parents but I would love to explore more ways.
Do you know if there have been any successful attempts to cultivate Hedgehog Fungus (Hydnum Repandum)?
Luckily they grow in the woods near where I live in the UK. They are great pan fried with butter and served on toast.
@Find In Nature - mycology, fungi From personal experience it grows in mixed birch woodland. Usually in the detritus etc on the ground. I'm not sure how a person could farm it.
I keep my supply secret, my grandparents and father told me to keep our supply secret and do the same :)
Hydnum Repandum is a great species too, that I find from time to time. It was great that it could also be cultivated.
this topic fascinates me, but I do not know for sure of hedgehog attempts. cool mushroom though!
"Shaggy Mane" is the name I've needed to hear for a long time after one year I kept finding groups of mushrooms that seemed to have dissolved into evil goo. Nice!
The group are Ink Caps. Shaggy mane is one variety, but all ink caps dissolve into that nasty black goo (ink).
Want some scubby snacks
Excellent education on various types of mushrooms. Would you kindly let us know the types of poisoneous mushrooms?
Great video. Has made me be able to identify the wood ear mushroom and know its edible as well. My local woods are filled with them, a random golden coloured oyster variety, dryads saddle, turkey tail, red banded conk and similars, and many many mica's. There's one that pops up at end of summer exactly like that Milk Cap species aswell. But I not 100% sure weather it is milk cap, so i definitely won't be on a harvest menu any time soon.
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I really liked your video and I subscribed but could you please explain why the mushrooms are considered medicinal as I think it could be really beneficial for people to know. Thank you. Keep up the good work.
It’s been 2 years and I finally found the delicious mushroom that I ate at a mushroom soup restaurant in korea - The Tremella mushroom! I absolutely adore the texture and it tastes quite meaty but light and almost melts in your mouth.
That's great 😊
My first time in Korea
I got same treatment
Was nice..... until I found a dealer that got the good good
The medicinal shrooms..... they help cure my depression
Hi there great video. I am just now getting into mushroom growing. I was wondering if you which species you can grow from mycelium? Do all mushrooms grow from mycelium? I thought mushrooms grew from their spores??? What mushrooms can cultivate from the actual mushroom? Like the mycelium from oyster mushrooms? Thanks!
Spores are a precursor to mycelium... each spore contains half the genetic material required to fruit mushrooms. Spores turn into "hyphae" and then "hyphae" meet and form mycelium. Look up the "mushroom life cycle" and you'll see :)
Such a pleasure to listen to your vids.I think you meant to say the host when speaking of tremella encounter. The tremella being the parasite. Is the tremella host specific? As with Entoloma and Armillaria from which aborted entoloma forms? Really appreciate the content of the vids🤗
You didn't mention my 2 favorites, Chanterelle and Lobster mushroom. Great video though, I love learning about mushrooms!
I love mushrooms and luckily I live in Tokyo so I can find all of the mushrooms. I enjoyed your anglo pronunciation of the Japanese mushrooms.
In my country (lithuania) its common to go shroom hunting every year during the end of summer, but we usually collect porcini, chanterelle, birch bolete and prasol mushroom almsot exclusively.
Fantastic video, as always. I love this channel. I am an amateur producer in Brazil and your videos really encouraged me to start my production.
Please teach us how to make blocks for shitake. Thank you and keep up the great work.
@Wagner Lemgruber Boechat I see. Yes, it's sad indeed, because I'm sure there is a lot of edible species. More to the south of Brazil where the climate is more temperate, there are probably a lot of species similar to those that are collected in Europe, North America and Asia!
@Find In Nature - mycology, fungi Not in fact. Brazilians do not pick in wild at all!
There is a general belief that picking mushrooms from the wild is too dangerous. There are no experts or studies on the topic. Only a handful of chefs are trying to introduce native species. All mushrooms consumed in Brazil are grown. We have a lot of Shitake, Shampion and shimeji. Sometimes you find enoki and others, but it is not common. It is very sad....
Are wild mushrooms traditionally picked in the wild to eat? Brazil is such a big country. Do you find a lot of different species when you go out?
thanks so much for watching! we do have a video for shiitake on the channel, but maybe i'll do an update.
Only few days back I came to know that ganoderma luicidum was also native to south India, it was never grown but collected from degrading jackfruit trees...
It's fascinating, in germany and I believe that stands for most of central europe, we seldomly know any of these. And I go into the woods every year for mushrooms. One of my favorite local shrooms is the boletus - Boletus edulis (lat). Also very popular around here are Cantharellus cibarius and Pleurotus eryngii (sorry I dont know the english names). Great video!
The only commercially fresh mushroom that I have seen in the Philippines are the white oysters. I have seen the Volvariella mushrooms grown on cut down banana stems, but the farmers keep them for their own use.
The Viking mushroom looks amazing 🍄 and that’s literally how it looks lol and they make you go bonkers I’ve never tried but have seen TheXvid videos on people taking them and enjoying there trip
Do I like mushrooms? No.
Did I watch this and find myself utterly captivated by mushrooms? Yes.
I've learnt something, so that's good.
Cook all the water out of your mushrooms with no oil before you add oil back into it. If you like the taste but not the texture, this will solve that problem.
the idea that you don't like mushrooms is entirely due to the fact that you've only bought commercially available mushrooms from stores. Try a morel or a chanterelle or a puffball, or some lions mane, and you'll change your mind very quickly
I don’t really like to eat the mushrooms we can get at the store, but honestly some of these I’d be totally down to try.
they taste wildly different than agaricus bisporus, or the button mushrooms you find at the store!
this is an awesome video!! I've learned so much. my next step is figuring out which i can grow in my apartment without getting in trouble with my landlady 🤔
start nice and easy with a lion's mane kit in a shotgun fruiting chamber :) can't go wrong!
You should definitely try to grow Milky Mushroom, they are pretty easy to grow and pretty hardy not very choosy about growing conditions and are pretty damn tasty
Hi Tony. I couldn't guess how many of your videos I have watched now....just to say thanks so much and please keep it up; you explain things exceptionally well and your enthusiasm is infectious. I will be inoculating my first batch tomorrow. Many thanks : )
I regularly find shimeji mushrooms sold as beech mushrooms. They're great for tempura.
Many mushrooms have different names. Shimeji is the Japanese name and beech mushroom is common in English.
I live in Missouri and during this lock down I've been able to do more hiking than in previous years. I'm hoping to stumble on some morels. Crossing my fingers.
Rachel I live in tenn. I'm new to the m/r topic hard to find local info on them...any ideas?? Thx
As a vegan I can confirm that the use of mushrooms is on the increase because, as we develop more conscious eating habits, we definitely don't want to miss out in taste. Big meaty mushrooms are used as meat substitute which can be cooked grilled, caramelized with a little oil or deep fried if coated in flour 😋. Mushrooms are very healthy, delicious and environment friendly. Thumbs up!!! 👍👌💖
I love wood ear mushroom, has the same crunch as actual ears which at first I was squeemish about but now I enjoy
Thanks for all the videos. I've been trying to grow lions mane for some time in an automated shotgun chamber. My lions mane never seem to grow their teeth/hair. I'm thinking its the temperature here. Right now the temperature is varying between 24-28 degrees. Is this the problem?
@FreshCap Mushrooms what do you recommend growing at temperatures ranges of 24 to 28 degrees Celsius?
ya, that is really hot for Lion's Mane, they like it really cool- under 20 degrees. Could be a strain issue too.
You didn't mentioned my favorite parasol mushroom!! Shaggy mane looks a bit similar but not the same!
Very cool video !
Make another video describing the mushrooms which look similar but never same. And also distinguishing characters of them
And here I was hoping you name drop boletus edulis(referred to as porcino, suilli or steinpilz), a mushroom that growths naturally all over the northern hemisphere. It's been a staple to our families mushroom hunts and it's honestly pretty tasty. comparable in taste to champignons, but you'll have to remove the sponge since it's mostly inedible.
I just found this channel that is mainly focused on mushrooms, love it!
I love lion's mane. I hope that one day, I'll be able to grow some. I just ordered an Oyster syringe. Hopefully I'll gain some experience. Oyster are sold in every super market and are inexpensive. So thedy are not my main target. Lion's mane is never sold here (I could only find it dried in Asian markets (mostly exceeded their expiry date already), but dried lion's mane is stinky (or it was the age or the storage conditions that made it stink). I once bought a grow box which was delicious.
i know absolutely nothing about mushrooms but that didnt stop me from thoroughly enjoying every minute of this video!!! keep up the great content!!!
You forgot Chicken of The Wood, and Giant Puffer ( puffers in general). Both are excellent and more common than anything but the oysters and buttons you listed.
Another great video!! , I would like to know which are easier to grows on the ground and not on a piece of wood? i read about winecap and oyster is theres any other ? Thanks ! :)
milky mushroom maybe??
Great video!! My basement is looking a lot more interesting now!! Lions mane is my favorite too! Though I have not tried All 25😊
Great video! Let me add a species to your list. If you do a TheXvid search for the Thai word " เห็ดโคนน้อย ", you will find lots of videos of people growing a species of Coprinus/Coprinopsis, (not shaggy mane). Being an inky-cap mushroom, it would not be suitable for commercial growing in North America, but it seems to grow on straw, so might be OK for a home grower. Check it out!!! Again, love the videos.
Mycology is becoming popular all of a sudden in TheXvid. It first was widely mentioned here and then in bushcraft/outdoor survival, now it has become its own topic.
Wood ear mushroom (like most mushroom when cooked right) is not supposed to be rubbery, it's supposed to have a bit of a crunch to them. Not sure if you're not cooking them right, or something else. (Don't know much about mushrooms, but I've eaten a lot of these somewhat regularly growing up)
How i wish i can grow all of this at home❤️
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Great video man, can you make a video about the dangerous species of mushroom too
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Your sanity.
I have never seen this amazing ones in Australia, thanks for the video
OMG shaggy ink caps grew in our garden and neighbourhood last fall. I had no clue they were edible. (wont pluck and eat them though cus you can never be too sure)
Would have been nice to hear what each "medicinal" mushroom was supposed to actually be good for medicinally, but cool video anyway.
Please suggest 3 easy varieties to grow inside home. It will be beneficial if you kindly mention the type of substrate required for it.
Thank you for such great and enjoyable information.
Great vid but I would say include cubensis as a medicinal mushroom 🍄
I found lions main mushroom in my grandparents backyard in Virginia ( they live right in a forest) and I had no idea what it was at the time, so obviously i poked it with a stick until it was totally ruined. I’ve never found it there since.
Facanting. I have been binge watching muchroom videos hope to grow a few on my woodland allotment alongside my bees
When eating shaggymane mushrooms, keep in mind that there are reports of mild poisoning in combination with alcohol!
@William Beddoe That is useful information: thank you!
I suppose some individuals may react that way with any coprinus species, although it's the Tippler's Bane mushroom (coprinus atramentarius) that is the one that must absolutely be avoided with alcohol. The chemical compound in the mushroom is the same as that found in the drug Antabuse, which is sometimes prescribed to chronic alcoholics for whom nothing else works. Consuming alcohol with this mushroom won't kill you, but you'll feel very sick.
Hey quick question, I'm cutting down a bunch of elm trees I'm my back yard and I figured if I'm gonna have tree stumps then I should find a way to grow mushrooms on them.
I heard from resurch that shiitake and oyster mushrooms would probably be the best here in utah. Do you have any advice on how to grow them or if I should wait for the stumps to get older before I try growing mushrooms?
I'm thinking I'll try the straw bed technique at the base of the stumps and hope they travel up them? What do you think?
Omg 😱 we have a lot of maitake in Wisconsin. thanks for sharing all this information new subscriber ❤️👍
I was hoping this video would mention the cultivation of _Phallus indusiatus_. I was pleased by the mention of _Calocybe indica_.
Missed bolete mushrooms. There are 4-5 kinds that are perfectly edible and tasty
A very good intro video for absolute noobs like me. I am gonna try grow some oyster and shitake mushrooms on sawdust. Thank you for your dedication. Keep up the good work.
this is a great video on mushrooms done very well and clear
And THIS is how I got invested in mushrooms.
Nice. I’m a shroom hunter and grower. Enjoy your videos! As a chef I have spent plenty on morels and chanterelles. My favorite? Psilly
Actually that’s the kind I’m looking for more info on growing. I’ve tried low doses in conjunction with lions mane to help a crippling 10 year depression, it’s working, but expensive. Growing my own makes more sense.
Great upload! However, you missed not only Chicken of the Woods but, Rams Head as well. Look them up. They are both delicious!!! 🇺🇸
What would be the best choice for amateurs? I mean something tasty, that's hard to buy, but relatively easy to grow.
awesome info and video, thank you!
In the philippines, we have what we call Mamunso and Mamarang. Nothing can beat their taste.
No, I'd say an incredibly tiny amount of people only know white/brown mushrooms. The vast majority of people know of Amanita, Chanterelle, Shitaki, Penny Bun etc. Mushrooms that are sold in most food stores and are commonly found in forests.
Its weird that someone that has an interest in and knowledge about mushrooms get that completely wrong.
Do you think people could grow mushrooms on a boat ⛵️ with a good yield? I’ve been watching a lot of boat life TheXvid videos and it seems like mushrooms would be perfect to grow at sea. I presume one would have to choose the right species for the climate one is sailing in.