Thank you for your feedback and taking the time to share your thoughts. I think there may be a misunderstanding. When Saurev says very little is known about Fungi he’s talking specifically about in Assam and he does qualify that. It is correct that people there seem on the whole to have lost that cultural knowledge. However, in the documentary we also say that in Arunachal Pradesh and in Meghalaya the local people know much more about Fungi. The purpose of the documentary was to record what they knew, so it could be shared with others in India, who may have lost that knowledge and have similar species. And of course to photographically document that Fungi so that it could be used in field guides. It is true that the people from Balipara could have asked these questions themselves and on an ongoing basis they do ask those questions. The photographer Stephen Axford asked those questions in the film as a storytelling device to make that information accessible to an international audience. I hope that explains what was meant.

I just love when people find their lifelong passion in their work and share it with us. Who knew fungi could be so beautiful? Bravo!

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for taking the time to give such lovely feedback.

@catgiles3268

Жыл бұрын

I absolutely agree! There’s some very beautiful fungi on the planet and now it’s being shared so everyone can see it.

@Cezar81

11 ай бұрын

😍😍😍

@kellycrozier246

3 ай бұрын

@@catgiles3268😊

Congratulations on finding new species! Stunning photography, as usual!

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Not sure how often I started to cry but some of these were just TOO beautiful. Much love to mama nature and the entire team!!!

I grew up photographing fungi with my grandparents, your work is truly inspirational. Thank you!

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you for that really generous feedback. We're really pleased people like it.

@joss_ananascocos

Жыл бұрын

Yes me too - All in my family have been Fungey photografers

23.42 loving the saying "technology is a useful servant...but a dangerous master" 👍

SO beautiful and wholesome! Putting together a visual dictionary for the locals to know what's edible and what isn't. How kind !!!! I love this series cant wait to watch the next one! Thank you Stephen for sharing your knowledge and passion with us all!

I am so appreciative of all the work everyone is involved in. Thanks to all involved in positively linking people with the natural world

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thanks you so much for the lovely feedback.

What an incredible, informative, and delightful experience! Thank you.

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it. Thank you.

At about 50, David left a career in IT to pursue a passion for documenting the world’s fungi. His quiet passion is infectious, inspiring, and evident in his gorgeous photographs and time-lapse videos. 🍄💖💚❤️

Wow the festival in Meghalaya was mesmerizing!!

@henriklarsson5221

Жыл бұрын

It was bonkers.

@regularly_priced

2 ай бұрын

Yeah that would be so fun to have grown up in that tribe. It’s cool to see the different celebrations and communities all over the world; no matter where we grew up, we all seem to find joy in community and our own cultures. I love the diversity of humans

In Chile we started to know fungi life a few years ago and now we have even Fungifest in regionals parts of the country! Thanks for sharing us this relevant material from anothers cultures 💙.

This is absolutely phenomenal!❤

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

37:05 She's laughing about the Chillum mushroom because Chillum pipes are used for Cannabis smoking not tobacco 🤣

Спасибо Огромное Вам и Вашей команде Всем за Этот Удивительный мир грибов .

Amazing video, the fungi kingdom is awesome to explore, and the India culture in the video brought some more interesting informations. Very nice to meet some locals and see their vision about it as well

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

So nice of you to give this feedback and glad you enjoyed the story. Thank you.

Thanks again Stephen Axford & Catherine Marciniak for this amazing movie

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the lovely feedback

Love it! Kong is an amazing, beautiful soul

To everyone reading this and listening. Close your eyes, inhale and feel the air in your lungs give life to your beautiful soul. and as you exhale, release the tension in your shoulders, ease the tension in your neck and the back of your head. Allow peace to flow inside of every fiber and vein in your body. You are doing great. No matter what you are going through. You will be just fine. Hugs to you all..

Very Beautiful, you guys are awesome!!! When i learned about Fungi i quickly realised Fungi are the missing link for the world.

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much.

Amazing photos, great work!

5.54 this man 1 has a good heart 2 is a real hero 👏🙏🌍🍀

Thanks for sharing all this wonderful information.

Love from northeast india ❤

Stunning photography, thanks for sharing your skill.

The oldest life form on the planet. And most mind opening and heart blossoming.

Excellent video; I remember when Wimbledon Common was a fungal safari that precluded the need to look abroad. Also the Hog's Back, Epping Forest, and Hampstead Heath.

Amazing! I also want to meet that jolly Kong now. 😂 Love from Assam ✨

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

Beautiful Mother ❤❤❤❤❤ An absolute true inspiration, her struggles she overcame and her dedication to her kin, breaths life into my soul. ❤❤

Excellent video! I've always been fascinated by fungi, but to be honest I've never really tried to look around for them. They're just there. Your work is truly an inspiration. Real eye opener to see what's hidden in plain sight when you start to really look. Thank you for sharing

thank you for this beautifully made doc

Muy hermoso recorrido una facinante descripción . El profesor y ese magnífico grupo indú de maravilla .

Very interesting to see the overlap of mushrooms between europe and asia. I recognized many from home! So far away yet very similar

@regularly_priced

2 ай бұрын

I’m from the US and I even recognized some species that are found here. Like the beefsteak fungus

What I love the most about mushrooms is how diverse is the growing conditions of them. I wonder if there are any species in Arctica (apart from lichens) that we haven't found yet?

Love love LOVE the Forest Man! ❤

Man, massive respect for people who do this type of amazing work.

A fascinating film. My compliments to the makers.

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you.

Excellent documentary 🍄

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated!

Notice they skip right past the ones growing in elephant dung😊

Stephen and Paul Stamets are two bight beacons shinning in the dark world of mycellium!

Absolutely mindblowing and astonishing at the same time . You do an amazing job in documenting fungi and showing them to the world. And i absolutely love that you also included some of the local peoples tradicions and theyr knowledge about mushrooms. As well as your combination of video photography talking and music goes so well with each other, its just great to witness. Highly appreciated all the work and efford you pour into those videos and photographies, you are a true inspiration .

Incredibly beautiful, informative and entertaining. Thank you.

Fascinating documentary. There are many verity of fungi. By seeing this protecting and preserving fungi is an important part in our fragile planet.

Incredible story ,so much inspiration and hope here that a man's passion and curiosity mixed with amazing talent to film ,connect with native indigenous wisdom can bring many undiscovered species to the light for us to study and appreciate.Ive been photographing fungi for over 20 years it began when my daughter Jayde (WHO NOW IS IN HER FINAL STUDIES OF A BACHELOR OF BIO SCIENCE) at a younge age believed in fairies and was fascinated by mushrooms in which they might dwell so we took photos pick to see if any fairies would be present in our photography.Ive since become a horticulturist and lately have a passion for understanding fungi and its relationship with plants,blown away with the intelligence of it all happening seemingly unnoticed to most ,yet such a vital link in the chain of life. Thanks for a brilliant and extremely educational look into fungi growing in its native enviroment capturing it BRILLIANTLY with your keen eye and lenses YET most of all the indigenous knowledge your able to share with us. I've always believed there is something very special indeed about these fungi we know so little about ,they are a key of Importance to us .

How Stephen Axford changed my view of the world ... Thank you!

Enjoyed watching this, thanks.. underrated! 💚

This is so stunning and inspiring. Love your work and have so much respect for your passion, Mr. Axford! You've captured the majestic beauty of mushrooms. Who knew!

Thank you sharing information beautiful information with us

Excellent documentary, spectacular fungi

27:56 that red bug(maybe a spider) is so beautiful, I wouldn't touch it.

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing your journey with us!

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it

Amazing document,I am from Poland and fascinated with India,is it beautyfull country,so huge with massive potential ,all best for India;🥰

I'm an Indian I luv my country it's so good to learn so much thru yr doc very infirmative yes v did know there were poisonous mushrooms but how does one detect it. Great job with enkughtenung us with a variety of species. Gid bless u all luv these doc. Well portrayed. Thanks ❤🌹🙏❤❤❤❤

My new favorite channel on KZread. Please. Give us more!

Fungi are the most fascinating species in the world. I mean could we even survive without them...they were the most underrated creatures in the world. Past tense!! Thank you for your amazing work and photography!!!

The time lapses are truly magical!

Beautiful places and people in this documentary and such a useful resource for the locals. I wonder how the information will be made available so that more villagers can know which are poisonous and edible? That older lady was so lovely and funny! Thanks Stephen for following your passion and sharing it with the world ✌️

Great Video! Yes Fungi are Absolutely Essential to Life on Earth!! This is Super Important Work cataloging all the Mushroom species so the Local population can be Part of the Preservation and Economic use of these Beautiful Mushroom species!!

Wow 🤩 Just WOW 🤩 Breathtaking ❤ 🍄

@BigNames-rw9hd

10 ай бұрын

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This ties together my love of learning about other cultures and my love of fungi. Great video

Amazing Documentary !!! I Love Mushrooms also realized Forests with out them wouldn't exist.

It's so fascinating and beautiful to me the interconnectedness of nature and the world, how the fungi collects water for the roots of the trees. That is so cool! We couldn't survive without fungi.

Glowing fungi.. wow

Beautiful!! Thank you for visiting our Northeast India, Iam from Nagaland.

Absolutely gorgeous my beloved Stephen and Catherine, thank you for sharing your hard work, experience and unique sensitivity and passion for mushrooms! Lol from Mexico!

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Jesus. Beautiful comment from a beautiful soul.

Thank you for sharing your amazing work with us! Fantastic film!

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you too for supporting our work.

I love seeing the fungi in India, the similarities but different polypores and how cute all the little bugs and spiders are there, i am so enjoying this thank you so much.

@nancyanny

8 ай бұрын

Oh that was just the cutest at 37:50 or so.

Some of those mushrooms in India have relatives over here in Europe. I seemed to recognize a species of Lactarius and maybe also a species of Lepista, but can't be sure, since the documentary doesn't provide the scientific names for most of the mushrooms being presented. Definitely recognized the macrolepiota procera specimens, they're such a classic.

I came upon this video by chance as it played just after another one about Majuli....your story took me back to my journeys around that peerless state so thank you for that! More, they say that those who cross the Brahmaputra one time are destined to return, I Had no idea or interest in fungi back in those roaming days but now I do! Thanks again and btw the joke about the 'chillum' mushroom and the 'bom bom'...chillum is usually used to smoke hash or marijuana and bom bom is the cry you make when you inhale the smoke

Beautiful film! Fungi are so diverse.

I saw this guy's last film. It is utterly brilliant. I'm so stoked to watch this

Thank you for another excellent video. the fungi @ 27:04 looks a little like the Sulphur Polypore or Chicken of the Woods - Laetiporus sulphureus which when young is a very tasty mushroom, I prefer it to chicken.

Are there any more documentaries similar to this one? It's so interesting

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for the lovely comment. Have you checked out some of the other shorter videos on our Planet Fungi KZread channel.

@dipankarsharma7264

Жыл бұрын

You may like something called "Fantastic Fungi"

Another excellent job. Things made with love make a difference, thanks and love.

Kong is such a joy. Her spirit is very rich!

Thanks for this! It's unfortunate that with so many types of edible fungi, in a typical supermarket there are only white ones and brown ones. Northeast India seems to have the most diversity of humans, too.

very valuable video, thanks for sharing

Magnificent. Just glorious. Thank you!

This is a fascinating video! And a very good effort documenting and classifying the Fungi Diversity in just the Northeastern part of India.

This documentary was amazing... Really it is worth to consider that how importantly Fungus dominate a forest. Before watching this video I never thought about fungi like today. I would like to thank this team for this informative documentary. Watching this video from Bangladesh..

Thanks for coming to Northeast India. I am from Nagaland. And i love science ❤❤❤ Should have came to Nagaland. Naga people spent alot of time at Forest. Hunting and fishing. And has alot of knowledge on it. And well also eat alot of forest food. You would have gotten alot of local info about these

Fantastic work. Congratulations on finding new species.

Absolutely Gorgeous fungi!!!! Are the glow in the dark fungi edible??? Thank you for sharing your experience! 🤗

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

The bioluminescent fungi in this doco are quite small but Harvestmen insects really loved them.

what a nice documentary. amazed by this species. The shiva. The one who turns blue by sucking the poison of the world.

The journey was very informative.... Great job

Beautiful documentary ❤

You said it bro. Endlessly fascinating. Every minute of this was beautiful, places people , customs and of course the infinite diversity of fungi. Imagine , the beginning of our knowledge of one of the primary creators of the world we live in.

That was interesting and beautiful.....I learned a lot and I am totally charmed ....thanks a lot!!!

I love the topic Ytuber from Vietnam

Thank you for an inspirational video! Brilliant

Just lovely and very educational

this is sooo good! I'm listening to this and revising physics and history today, as my international exams are coming tomorrow (ahhhh!; the music really makes me calm down and concentrate :D Well I'm going to sleep now~really thanks for your music! and wish me good luck tmr! :)

@PlanetFungi

Жыл бұрын

GOOD LUCK TOMORROW

Imagine God's creation. Enjoyed watching n sharing yr knowledge of the various species of fungi. They r so pretty too thanks ❤❤❤😂

Amazing! Thank you so much 🙏

Absolutely Great Video!

A very eye opening documentary on Fungi.. Since childhood in rural Kenya 🇰🇪 fungi has been all around.. After watching this, am seeing fungi in different light.. Thanks and many regards to the team for bringing fungi to such beautiful limelight

@Davewheelz

Жыл бұрын

They're on Twitter🔑.

Beautiful photographs, time lapses and video footage. Thank you, I enjoyed watching this 🍄

"this is the first time she has seen this and she is very excited to know it" love this ❤

The funguis are beautiful 👏👏👏👏

Amazing documentary, thank you 🙏