When fall rolls around you can always count on finding a variety of interesting mushrooms. Today’s array, come to us from Stacey Flood. She really collected some colorful ones that I haven’t seen before, so there’s no way I can identify them. If you are an amateur mushroomologist, maybe you can help identify Stacey’s finds for us. Her bottom photo is the biggest mushroom she’s ever seen and look at the dark colors around it. Very cool!

Today’s video comes from SciShow, but it also features Alexis Dahl to help explain why the Ancient People Abanadoned Copper. The lead-in to the video says: “Most cultures who developed metalworking technology never let the skill go to waste. But in what's now Michigan, Native Americans started making metal tools well before anyone else did, and then stopped. And the reason why this happened is hiding in the very metal that they were working: Copper. Thanks to Alexis Dahl for joining us on this episode.”

How cool all those shrooms...I think the last one
is a "Turkey Tail" and the bottom should be a
whiteish color...people used to draw on them,
paint them, etc...You'd see them at craft shows.
As kids, the Grands would find them, and we'd fix
em up.

One time, lil bro and I were cruising, and he
yells "Look" and pulls over, runs in the woods,
comes back with an arm load of some kind of
mushroom...we went back to my place, he cleaned
them up, left me a couple and said "cook them like
a steak"..and wow...was that good. I don't recall
the name.

GREAT video. Alexis really has her name out there.
It's not going to be long...she'll be famous! And
we can say "We knew her when...."

I've never seen must of these mushrooms. Very cool!
And Donna, I've never used them for art.

Hi
I am not sure enough of my skill at indentifying
safe mushrooms to try to collect and eat 'em. They
are interesting to look at though.

I found the video, with its explanation as to why
use of copper stopped, very interesting.

My Father-in-Law would go Morel mushroom hunting every once in awhile. Once home, he would become paranoid and throw them out. Oh well, better safe than sorry. I once read of a family, unsure of their hunting spoils, fed some to their cat. Not realizing this particular species was not poisonous to cats but were to humans, they tragically left this world with a homeless cat.

I'll have to catch up on the video later. Looks good.

I love Mushrooms, However... I would never eat any
that were not in a grocery store or being served in
a restaurant! I know with my luck, I'd pick the
poison ones for sure. lol