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Fast Forage: Elm Oyster
Clip: Season 15 Episode 4 | 1m 28sVideo has Closed Captions
Nicole Zempel showcases the Elm Cap Oyster.
Nicole Zempel is foraging for the Elm Oyster mushroom. Their pure white caps mature to a tan shade, revealing smooth surfaces and distinctive forked gills beneath. These mushrooms are found in the fall from August to October, growing higher up on its host tree.
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Fast Forage: Elm Oyster
Clip: Season 15 Episode 4 | 1m 28sVideo has Closed Captions
Nicole Zempel is foraging for the Elm Oyster mushroom. Their pure white caps mature to a tan shade, revealing smooth surfaces and distinctive forked gills beneath. These mushrooms are found in the fall from August to October, growing higher up on its host tree.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship(upbeat music) (bright music) - This is a beautiful elm cap oyster.
It's not a true oyster mushroom.
Pure white when it's young, and as it ages, it gets a little bit more tan in color.
A telltale sign of a elm cap oyster, aside from it being just absolutely gorgeous, they grow out of wounds of trees, usually elm trees.
If it's growing out of a wound in a tree and it looks like this, odds are it is an elm cap oyster.
If you've never tried one, I would encourage you to try one and a little butter and a little garlic and you can make anything taste good.
The cap, it's smooth.
And then on the underside, you can see these gills, and they're a little bit forked.
The stem has got the little scaly bits, and you'll know that you have an elm cap oyster mushroom.
I have found them from August through like October.
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