Foraging Wild Mushrooms with Alan Rockefeller

Alan Rockefeller is a renowned mycologist and if you know about mushrooms you have probably heard his name. He is what is known as a citizen scientist, from Oakland California, and is the chief mycologist for Mimosa Therapeutics. He studies and DNA sequences a huge variety of mushrooms and has his name all over the internet as well as many field guides about mushrooms. His studies about mushroom DNA sequencing and psychoactive mushrooms is unmatched.
His contributions to the field of mycology are countless and it was a huge honor to go out foraging and learning from him. He was gracious enough to let me film it all, and this is part one of three videos I will be releasing about Alan and his mushroom knowledge.
We explore wild mushrooms in this video including Tubaria, Pluteus, Agrocybe, Coprinopsis, Gymnopilus, Pholiota, Stropharia, Clitocybe, as well as others.
He talks a lot about the process of sequencing DNA and the taxonomy and classification of mushrooms, and identifies several species of mushrooms in this video.
We do talk about psychoactive mushrooms from a purely scientific and educational standpoint and do not encourage their use. This video is meant to be entertaining and educational, as well as promote harm reduction.
I just want to thank Alan again for this opportunity.
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