The Wild World of High Value Mushrooms Porcini, Chanterelle, and Their Secret Lives

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But there are mushrooms like the high value ones, uh, porchini. I'll show you porchini mushroom. This one is really high value, but it doesn't you can't grow this on compost. You you don't grow this on decaying wood. This actually grows underneath the trees, and you need the tree to be alive for this mushroom to grow. And this one, you can get up to three or $400 per kilo because it's wild. It only comes around in a season, and you must go to the woods to find this. So these are called micoorisal mushrooms. Mo is for mushroom. Risle is for root. So mushroom root. You must have the plant alive so that you can go harvest these. And another very famous expensive one is called the chanturel mushroom. Uh this is also another very expensive mushroom because it grows only in the wild. You would probably see this in the rainforests. Um very very common all around the world. Uh, but this one you can get, you know, a couple hundred dollars per kilo for this mushroom, too.

But that's because it's rare and it's wild only. You can't grow in a kind of lychen. It's a kind of lyken, like jelly kind of stuff. So, lychen is a different thing. Lychen is a combination of two different things. It's a fungus and a a bacteria.

Um, but this is it. It's like it requires the two different um organisms to grow. But this is all just one organism. So the mushroom itself is an organism that's working in symbiosis with the tree organism. So these would be growing, you know, underneath redwoods or something like that. Here you can look like probably like a birch.

You can see that it might be a birch tree that that's growing under. This one, these were definitely, you see the little needles there. These are growing under redwood.