Chanterelle's a plenty!......maybe??

[Scrumpy]

I was out bimbling with my son today in a wood that was mainly oak and hazel, we stopped to take some picture of mushies and on reflection I think they were Chanterelle, unfortunately my camera was set on extra small image and you cant really tell what the picture is of but they do look like the images I have found online.
They were orange and trumpet shaped and growing at the base of trees, is there anything that looks similar to watch out for?
If these are what I believe them to be I want to dry them, can this be done in the oven like jerky?

[Scrumpy]

Not a great picture I know but thats all I got.

[spamel]

There are others, false chanterelle, jack o lanterns and possibly a few others. Take a look at Rogers Mushrooms, it is a website that has great explanations of the charachteristics of thousands of different funghi and pictures to boot. Ensure you are 100 per cent positive before you even consider eating them, maybe take some to a local mycologist who can positively ID them for you.

[Scrumpy]

I dont think they are false chanterelles's as the tops look different
And jack o lanterns grow on trees not under them, so I read anyway!

[Scrumpy]

Found these too, in the garden, in some fir mulch


Looks like they would fry well in some garlic butter....mmmmmm poisonous?

[spamel]

They aren't chanterelles. that much is for certain. Your 2nd ones could be a type of field mushroom, but I am ppurely guessing by now. Unless you get 100 % ID, I'd leave them out!

[Scrumpy]

Lol, I guessed too they weren't chanterelles! quite a team we make! albeit a hungry team.... where is the mushroom lady when you need her!

[saddle_tramp]

the first ones look like one of the milk caps to me, possibly oak milk cap? which is poisionous

[spamel]

I think you've found the false chanterrelle there. Take a look:

http://www.rogersmushrooms.com/galle...k~bid~6133.asp

[Scrumpy]

If it's the big picture you refer to I got that from here http://www.wildmushroomsonline.co.uk...he+Chanterelle
the ones I found have a trumpet shaped top

[spamel]

Chanterelle, the real one!

[saddle_tramp]

shows how much i know dont it. . . lol

[Scrumpy]

I think you may have something there Spam, what I found look different to that.
I may have found a new species of Chanterelle, slightly tastier and more valuable than the normal ones, I'll go back and pick some and get some clear images. Thanks!

[xylaria]

How to ID a milk cap.

1] make sure it is a milk cap, break a part of the gills and wait. If no milk comes out it is proberly not a milk cap. Observe how much milk comes out, and what colour it is. Nothing deadly poisonous makes milk.

2]Dip a white cloth into the milk, does the milk change colour when it dries.

3]Dip your finger into the milk, take one drop and then place on tip of tongue. The taste of the milk is a very important feature, it can range from chilli seed oil (ouch!) to soya milk (tasteless), so be prepared to spit out the taste. Identitcal looking species can have very differant tastes. Taste testing is safe with milks caps and russulas as long as very small quantities are placed on the tongue, before being spat out. It is a stupid thing to do with other gilled fungi.

4]Smell the cap, this also a distingushing feature, the smells range from gorse blossum to rancid cod liver oil.

I find I often can ID in the field by taking taste and smell into consideration. Well anyway I have no idea what jersalum artichoke smells like, but I think your milk cap maybe lactarius volemus looking at size and the surface of the cap. The wood mushroom is an agaricus essttei (abruptibulbus) as the gills are free from the stem, make sure that it doesn't bruse bright yellow, lemon yellow is fine bright yellow isn't.

[Scrumpy]

How to ID a milk cap.

1] make sure it is a milk cap, break a part of the gills and wait. If no milk comes out it is proberly not a milk cap. Observe how much milk comes out, and what colour it is. Nothing deadly poisonous makes milk.

2]Dip a white cloth into the milk, does the milk change colour when it dries.

3]Dip your finger into the milk, take one drop and then place on tip of tongue. The taste of the milk is a very important feature, it can range from chilli seed oil (ouch!) to soya milk (tasteless), so be prepared to spit out the taste. Identitcal looking species can have very differant tastes. Taste testing is safe with milks caps and russulas as long as very small quantities are placed on the tongue, before being spat out. It is a stupid thing to do with other gilled fungi.

4]Smell the cap, this also a distingushing feature, the smells range from gorse blossum to rancid cod liver oil.

I find I often can ID in the field by taking taste and smell into consideration. Well anyway I have no idea what jersalum artichoke smells like, but I think your milk cap maybe lactarius volemus looking at size and the surface of the cap. The wood mushroom is an agaricus essttei (abruptibulbus) as the gills are free from the stem, make sure that it doesn't bruse bright yellow, lemon yellow is fine bright yellow isn't.

Right, I have been back to get more info, I pulled a lump out of the gills and no milk came out, the top is slimey and there is no strong smell. Hopefully the images I got will clear it up!


As for the field mushroom I think you hit the nail on the head and it bruises lemon yellow!!

[xylaria]

If it is not milk what is the white stuff on gills in post three?

Spamel behave .

[Scrumpy]

LOL... busted again!
The picture in my third post was got from a website to show the difference between what I found and the false Chanterelle.
Post number 10;
"If it's the big picture you refer to I got that from here http://www.wildmushroomsonline.co.uk...+Chanterel le
the ones I found have a trumpet shaped top"

[spamel]

Spamel behave .

WHADIDIDO?

[mjk123]

I was also rather firtunate in my local woods the other day. I _think_ these are chanterelles. I ate them with no ill effect, anyway.

http://www.wils.ch/Articles/Chanterelles.aspx

[Armleywhite]

During my time in the Army we were only told of TWO that could be eaten with certainty. The puff ball, providing it's perfectly white inside and the field mushroom. Big flat buggers. We did find out about certain big white mushrooms that are horse mushrooms. They look like big knoble field mushies, but smell of aniseed. Also edible.