In this video Aaron Hilliard, creator of Mushroom Wonderland and VP of the Kitsap Peninsula Mycological Society, goes on a mushroom hunt with the renowned citizen scientist and Chief Mycologist Alan Rockefeller and another friend the FungiKnight from Instagram, who was kind enough to show us to these 'Blue Ringers,' Psilocybe stuntzii, and Psilocybe pelliculosa in an undisclosed location in or around Gig Harbor, WA.
Alan Rockefeller is known for DNA sequencing and uploading data to GenBank, and is part of the International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration, an effort to analyze and meticulously document the DNA characteristics of millions of fungi, plants, and animals. He is also a self-taught mycologist and expert on fungi identification. Alan is the chief mycologist for Mimosa Therapeutics, a psychedelics company based in Amsterdam and Oakland, CA. Lots of information about him and his work is available on the internet.
I was fortunate to get to spend the day foraging mushrooms with him and capture it on film. We were able to identify the mushrooms, he spent quite a while photographing them, and collecting some for science, microscopy and sequencing.
This video is for scientific, educational, and entertainment purposes only. Please do not attempt to identify mushrooms based on the shaky footage from this video alone. We are not promoting the illicit use of hallucinogenic mushrooms. They are still illegal in most states of the US, as well as many other countries.
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Thank you for watching and a huge shout out to Alan for sharing this information with us.
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