Chanterelles And False Chanterelles And How To Spot The Differences

[Music] do [Music] there are some key features to finding chanterelles and the squall route that dawn's filming right now is one of the things that i pay attention to in the spring when i'm in new areas if i'm in old growth oak or hardwood forests and i note squawroot squawroot has a mycorrhizal relationship with rasula but i do quite often find chanterelles in and around route chanterelles are kind of an interesting mushroom once you've handled them a few times chanterelles are pretty easy to recognize this one came up and stunted a lot of times they'll grow together you'll see these stems are kind of sealed together and the tops will get warty this usually happens when it gets really dry right as they start to pin the chanterelles can start to pin and then if they don't get the water they quickly dry up and don't flower out and base out they just appear to be blunt yellow stubs protruding from the ground this particular chanterelle use a magnifying glass whether dawn can get in there but this is cantorellis ladder radius what makes me call it that is there's an absence of folds or false gills or ridges right here on a chanterelle they'll be folds or ridges their fall skills and they are decurrent down the stem and with this particular species you'll see ridges but they're not as pronounced as say they are on cantarella cineborus and cantorella sabaris the golden chanterelle this is the smooth chanterelle they're yellow and another key feature about chanterelles that's really cool the flesh is white too yellow depending but they peel almost like string cheese the stalks are always angular and they do not grow on wood i've read that people get jack-o'-lantern mushroom confused with chanterelles but jack-o'-lantern mushrooms have gills and the blades are pretty deep you can run your finger across those blades and they'll wave so they grow in clusters chanterelles can too but the jack-o'-lantern will grow on buried wood or dead wood so if it has gills it's not a chanterelle once you've handled these i think you'll reasonably be able to discern that it is in the genus cantarellas pretty easily these are a fruity mushroom they're delicious my favorite thing to do with these is to put them in a creamed soup also they're notorious for being buggy looks like my camera woman is being bugged right now smooth chanterelle yellow white to yellow flesh stringy like string cheese the ridges are there if seen in a magnifying glass and in its relative which will be cantarella sabaris it'll be yellow as well in michigan and it'll have fall skills or ridges that are pretty highly visible and they are the current let's go find something else an interesting chanterelle that probably i think in michigan is one of the most common it's it's a deep woods lover but it can show up anywhere from old growth to newer oak stands even it loves hillsides but it loves the deep woods and that is the cinnabar chanterelle it's probably the most common also the most striking it isn't a very big chanterelle but the ridges are very distinct on this chanterelle not gills but ridges sometimes you get lucky and you can find these in large flushes you can see these are definitely ridges and not gills and one of the ways that you can tell is when you peel this those ridges stay with it they're not blades that are attached to the cap but they're folds or ridges that we call fall skills on a cinnabar chanterelle it's orange it has white flesh it peels like string string cheese just like any other a very neat thing this is cantarellas cinnabarinus the cinnabar chanterelle they don't get much bigger than this but i like to add them to my soups and my dishes because of the color and they do taste just like other chanterelles they're just not quite as flavorful i'm going to have dawn walk over here because i found a very rare bloomer and it is called the false chanterelle that's the common name let's go have a look at it it's rare and i rarely get to see it and i wondered whether i was going to be able to get it in this video of chanterelles we got really lucky aside from the mosquitoes which are bothering my camerawoman dawn and she's wearing a mosquito net i probably should be doing the same thing the reason we got really lucky is because i found a very rare mushroom that i i only get to see like once every three or four years and we just happen to be shooting a video on chanterelles we have the false chanterelle which we don't like the term false anything so the latin name is hydro let me think about this it's a hard one to say hydro opsis hydrophoropsis that's it hydrophoropsis or antiqua hygropharopsis orintika say that with me [Laughter] i happen to have chanterelles because that's what dawn and i are picking and if you look at the tops of these chanterelles they resemble the false chantral now the distinguishing difference this has kind of a velvety top it's not sticky like hygroscopy but this is hygropharopsis now this will have gills whereas the chanterelle have ridges let's see if we can get a close-up of these gills you can see the blade of the gill when you cut the mushroom in half but also it's vase shaped like a chanterelle and the current or slightly to current gills but one feature to really notice is just how crowded these gills are and when you strike them with the knife they wave they move which demonstrates blades versus ridges on a real chanterelle now these yellow ones are smooth so there are no ridges or folds so i'm going to use a cinnabar chanterelle to show you the difference because the golden chant rail will have ridges that resemble this actually i'm going to put that other one in the light too hopefully that sun isn't too bright now chanterelle has stringy flesh and if we're to take some of this skin and we peel we notice that those ridges are part of the mushroom they're not separate from the cap or a different part of the cap like gills are gills are blades these are folger ridges those are the major differences between cantorellis and other genus of mushrooms so finding the high growth paropsis we can see these really extremely crowded gills that wave nice huh i feel lucky even though it's not an eater i feel lucky to see a rare mushroom in michigan that's nice to find let's go find something else oh that's a good shot oh that's a good shot you

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Keywords: Smooth Chanterelles, Chanterelles, Cantharellus Lateritius, Cinnabar Chanterelle, Cinnabar, Cantharellus Cinabarinus, False Chanterelle, Hygrophoropsis Aurantiaca, Jack O Lantern, Jack-O-Lantern, Omphalotus Olearius, Foraging wild edibles, foraging, hunting wild edibles, foraging wild mushrooms, edible mushrooms, hunting wild mushrooms, mushrooms, finding wild mushrooms, finding chanterelles, what is chanterelles, identifying wild mushrooms, identifying chanterelles

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Length: 11min 25sec (685 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 25 2022