Chanterelle Mushroom Identification, Harvesting, Toxic Look A Like

hey guys this is josh here from trillium wild edibles and today i want to show you all a video on chanarel mushrooms this lovely little orange mushroom that we're looking at here is a channelrail mushroom these things are absolutely delicious and their choice mushrooms known all around the world for their amazing and unique flavor so let's take a closer look at this now whenever you're looking at your channel mushrooms up close and you look at the underside one of the things you're going to notice is these gill-like structures these aren't actually gills these are what's called a false gill so if you were to compare that to another guild mushroom you would notice actual ridges where the gills are versus here we can see these are just basically just little indentations and they run vertically and they go to a current fork towards the top and they sort of disappear right here along this wavy margin of the cap whenever you look at the top of your channel one of the things you're going to notice is this kind of little indentation that we can see right here in the center kind of like a little well or water well or a pocket if you will we're going to notice that the margin of the cap is nice and wavy just like we can see here now this is being so thin as i just discovered is actually kind of fragile so be careful whenever you are picking these guys to not destroy them too much because otherwise you'll ruin your harvest whenever we're looking down the cap we're going to notice from the underside that it's kind of white yellow kind of whitish yellow here and then it terminates into a more yellow color and then it terminates more to an orange color here towards where it came out of the ground now the top of your cap of your channel is going to be this nice bright orange color that we can see here now this is really nice because it makes them stick out really easy for the most part they can blend in now let me show you guys how well these guys can actually hide this here in front of us is one of the main types of environments that you're probably going to be finding your channel mushrooms in here we can see all these nice little orange mushrooms these are those channels that we were just looking at there's quite a few of them here and now let's see how well they can hide if you look back over here right at the tip of my finger is another channel kind of hiding off into the distance we can see those that we were just looking at kind of sticking out like a sore thumb then if we come back into this rose bush here actually we can see some more hiding underneath there these nice beautiful little treasures now your channel mushrooms usually like to associate with oak trees so if you're in an area where there's a lot of old growth oaks and it's been really wet hot and humid in the middle of the summer there's a good chance you might be able to find some chanterelle mushrooms right back over here we can see another couple channelerel mushrooms and uh usually in july after the very first rain in july is when these guys are going to pop up so they really love the heat and the humidity and they definitely love moisture another thing you might notice in this area that i'm in as you might notice this area has been recently disturbed there was a couple tree falls and a couple trees that were cut down in this area and that's something that i've noticed with these chanero mushrooms is that they kind of like areas that have been disturbed or right off of areas that have been disturbed now as far as picking your channel mushrooms it honestly couldn't get any easier and that's really all there is to picking the channel mushrooms here you can already see in just about two or three minutes maybe i've already got quite a bit here feels like i've probably got i don't know about a quarter to a half a pound give or take this pretty good sized amount of mushrooms already and there's still a lot more to pick as i'm sure you guys have noticed earlier you can find quite a bit of channels all growing in one patch and these things grow kind of like a morel a little bit as in they grow out of the soil and they grow in singular solitary clusters along the ground now there is a dangerous look-alike to the channel mushrooms so let's talk about that for a second the main distinguishing factor between the jack-o'-lantern mushroom and the channel mushroom is that the channel mushroom has false gills like we can see here and the jack-o-lantern mushroom has actual true gills like we can see here in the top right picture of the frame right here you can actually see one of these chanterelle mushrooms this guy is just a little bit too old to use some of it you might be able to use but if we look deep inside of this we can actually see this little slug inside of the center of this we can see these little chunks that he's taken out here along the sides on the inside of this cap so this guy is just a little bit too old we can tell by how kind of white and dry it is right here on this top of the margin over here now here on the stump you can see all the nice general mushrooms that i have collected and honestly for actual time picking this is probably maybe 10 or 15 minutes worth of picking and just a small little area this is going to be enough for probably two or three people even up to four depending on how you use it i think all of you guys for watching this video i hope you enjoyed it and i hope you learned something if you want to learn more about wild edibles or medicinal plants please make sure to subscribe

Channel: Trillium: Wild Edibles

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Keywords: chanterelle mushroom identification, how to identify chanterelle mushrooms, cantherellus, chanterelle toxic look a like, jack o lantern mushroom, edible mushrooms, harvesting chanterelles, foraging, trillium wild edibles

Id: WhzfQ_kSLHA

Length: 5min 9sec (309 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 01 2022