Chanterelle Mushrooms (and POISONOUS Lookalike) | Foraging in Appalachia

i'm not gonna live in fear [Music] hello guys it's charles grove with foraging truth i got the chance to go out in the woods today and look for some wild mushrooms looking for some choice edible wild mushrooms there's a lot of mushrooms out now we've had some rains we have really warm temperatures the summer mushrooms are starting to really come out so let's talk about the chanterelle the chanterelle is in my mind one of the best mushrooms you can find in the woods it is delicious but this is not a beginner's mushroom this mushroom takes some experience and it does have a poisonous lookalike and there is many many many mushrooms in the chanterelle family in the cantarellius genus so what do we have today well the chanterelle it's a different looking mushroom isn't it a chanterelle is vase shaped as you can see comes down and it has these ridges that stick up sometimes in when they're early they do have more of a cap appearance let's go ahead and remove this one you're gonna see that those are not gills those are gill lines they're just small folds they're forked and you can see some of the little lines go from one to another and you can see where all the gill lines end right on the stalk so this is going to have a buff or slightly yellow spore print if you leave these layout on some paper so you can get that so let's talk about how we can properly identify this mushroom well first and foremost the lookalike is a jack-o-lant mushroom the jack-o'-lantern can look similar to this the differences is the jack-o-lantern has actual gills so the gills will be a lot deeper they won't be just lines on the stalk like that they're going to be a lot deeper they can take the shape of a chanterelle that's why you have to know the difference so i'm going to try to do this the main difference between the two this is actually a pretty decent one is the chanterelle is going to have white flesh and you can see that it has a consistency of like string cheese you can see the little piece hanging there the jack-o-lantern will be orange the whole way through they will not have this white inner inside it has the the chanderelle has this nice orange yellow outside and when you tear it in half you're gonna see that white string cheesy looking texture here's another difference we always smell our mushrooms because that can tell us whether we have the right mushroom or not this mushroom will not smell like mushrooms it will smell like almost like apricots or fruity which this one does really apricotti actually so i'm gonna go ahead and put this in my mushroom bag and we are gonna go see if we can find some more guys all right if i can find some jack-o-lanterns i'll show those to you too hello guys it's chuck grove again um now the chanterelles are up but let's go over some other mushrooms that may be misidentified it has the same color as the channel has the same kind of appearance of the channel but wait a second this one has gills those are not gill lines let me show you what gills are you can clearly see that this mushroom has gills so this is not a chanterelle has a vase kind of appearance as it gets older it'll even kind of these margin edges will turn upward and it'll have an appearance of a chanterelle now i've seen that something has harvested some of these mushrooms and as you can see the gills are laying on the ground right here um that's not good i hope i hope that wasn't a person because if you ingest jack-o'-lantern that's what this is the jack-o'-lantern mushroom if you ingest this you can expect nausea vomiting diarrhea the worst case of ibs your little bow syndrome you've ever thought of and it's symptomatic for about 24 hours not a good thing so what is another way we can uh identify the fact that this is not a chanterelle remember i ripped the other one in half the channel and it was white on the inside you can clearly see that this one is yellow on the uh underside now this will still give you a white spore print if you take a spore print so remember that the um chanterelle is a buff or a light yellow spore print this will be a white spore print this is going to make you sick now they still have a purpose and they still break down um dead into decaying wood you're not always going to see them on a log though you might see them out away from the log you know or out away from the stump like over here or are scattered about kind of like channels and that is the reason we have to know what we're doing in the woods you can't kind of be sure you can't almost be sure you have to be positive that you know what you're harvesting so and as you can see i have my manual right here one of my woods manuals that i use and this will tell you all about the jack-o'-lantern and of course it's in the poisonous section and it'll give you the description right here what the spore print is what the symptoms are what the treatment is and the treatment is pretty much time and there's all different types of uh poisonous mushrooms in this manual so another good manual to have all right guys mushrooms are out i've already gotten a few messages from some of you asking me what certain types of mushrooms are and what what they can do with them uh some of them have been toxic some of the pictures you guys have sent and i'll make sure i get back to you as soon as i can but um we are going to be putting together a nature walk in my area out here i'm looking at some different state parks that i could take you guys for a walk on i'm gonna have to go out and look at them first to see if we have the right types of mushrooms that i want to show you and the right types of plants i don't know if we'll do any harvesting everything's kind of up in the air but it seems like i need to start getting some some hands-on with some people so anyway all right guys um i'm out here in some of my channel spots and i did find a good many of them coming up right here these are a different type of chanterelle these are actually a smooth the chanterelle is what these are called and if you can see they really don't have real real real distinct lines on now these are smaller they're just starting but kind of limited for hands here you're going to notice that the interior is white not orange that is one of the biggest ways to identify that you have a chanterelle and not a jack-o-lantern now you can see some other ones i have gathered up in my hand huh this one's kind of buggy we're gonna let that one go you can see some little guys right here you see the gill lines but they're very very very faint see if we can find any more here that was pretty buggy oh right here that one's buggy oh that one doesn't look too bad now with channel rolls guys in the east we deal with worms that one's pretty buggy we deal with worms but what you can do is if the the worms have got to them what you can do is you can cut away the wormy places and take the fresh material you know and um and eat that now i bet you there's probably more this whole this whole edge will be covered with them where i'm at but this is early in the channel season and [Applause] that is not the channel [Applause] and when you're looking for chanterelles you're gonna learn to hate orange leaves but you know i think i'll head back through and see what else i've missed even with these being orange guys you you'll walk right by them they come up underneath the leaves they push the leaves up so if you see leaves like umbrellaing up off the ground it's always good to uncover them and see what you have and always always always positively identify what you have you're going to see some other types of mushrooms here these are bowlettes but that one's well passed these are some other types of bowlettes [Applause] a lot of these have some pretty weird characteristics [Applause] they stain different colors pretty rapidly as you can see now some of these bullet mushrooms are easy to identify and others you need a microscope so as far as foraging there is a couple that you can know just by the look of the cap what it is but we're going to get into that a little bit later and we're not going to delve into that as of right now because if you're silly relying on mushrooms and that's the only thing you have to eat is this type of mushroom you found and uh you're not positive before you eat that even if it gives you a bad case of diarrhea you're in a survival situation and it's hard to keep water in you guys know what can happen so you have to diversify you have to learn your mushrooms learn your plants if you don't have plants and mushrooms well you might want to go to gambian and bark and if you just can't bring yourself to do that well god created animals and god created fish so looks like oh this guy right here hiding in plain sight a little buggy but that is a that's a type of bullet you can see it doesn't have gills it has that spongy material this it's like tubules coming out but it is a terrestrial mushroom so we'll get into bowlettes a little bit later and we're going to stick with the shannon rails but it looks like i've exhausted my chanterelle spot this time of the year this is chuck grove with forage and truth and we've covered the chanterelle and the jack-o'-lantern don't confuse the two all right guys have a great day keep foraging you

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Length: 14min 31sec (871 seconds)

Published: Sun Aug 23 2020