Chantrelle 101! - All you need to know.

hey how's it going this is aaron hilliard with mushroom wonderland thanks for joining the video it's an exciting time in the pnw to be foraging wild mushrooms because some of our favorites are popping up right now and in this video we're going to be talking about cantharelis formosus or the pacific golden chanterelle so if you're interested in chanterelles and in foraging wild mushrooms we're going to talk about how these grow what they are where to get them how to prepare them all of that coming up in this video hit like and subscribe thanks for joining us come on welcome to mushroom wonderland autumn has hit the pacific northwest and today we're going to be doing a whole expose on golden chanterelles i know a lot of people are out here looking for a chanterelle so cantorellis formosus or the golden pacific chanterelle this is one of the most popular edible wild mushrooms here in the pnw it's actually probably the most popular mushroom that grows around here part of the reason why chanterelles are so popular is because they grow in abundance here and they're pretty easy to identify there's two main types of canthorellis that grow here that's the genus of the mushroom that we know as a chanterelle chanterelle is just a common name cantharelis formosus is the one that you can see in grocery stores it's the most common wild edible mushroom here in the pnw it grows from september pretty much to december sometimes in micro habitats you can find them growing in the middle of summer even and you're not going to find chanterelles growing in the winter in the dead of winter or the spring but keep in mind there are micro habitats where these mushrooms can flush really early in autumn all the way into december i did a video last december and we were foraging for chanterelles in december so just depends on where you are the elevation the temperature the things that mushrooms need to grow if all those conditions are right then you can find chanterelles way out of the prime season which is actually just september october november kind of the burr months is when you're going to find cantharelis formosus it gets the name chanterelle from a greek word meaning cup because the cap on the chanterelle when it's fully mature can be a bit concave so it could collect water and look a little bit like a cup i guess one thing you're going to notice about a golden chanterelle is its color it's very gold first time i ever picked chanterelles my grandma told me when i was seven years old to take this bucket and head out into the woods and see if you can find some ruffly looking orange or gold mushrooms and bring them back and i went out there for about an hour and i came back with the mushrooms that i found and i remember her eyes got so big she was so excited because i found some awesome golden chanterelles that night she cooked a pot roast and put the chanterelles in the gravy and i was hooked on mushroom picking ever since if you're brand new to this then this is a good channel for you to hit subscribe on and you can get a lot of information about foraging wild mushrooms it's a great hobby a great pastime a good way to get outdoors and take your kids doing something productive a good way to put some food on the dinner table as well all kinds of reasons to be out here picking mushrooms and chanterelles is one of the first mushrooms that you should get familiar with because it's easy to identify and it's all over the place i'm out here in the second growth forest and it's the beginning of october in western washington right near the puget sound so let's take a look at what a chanterelle looks like in the wild we have golden chanterelles another one hiding down there i can see and they like to grow in patches so when you find one chanterelle there's a good chance that you're gonna find a bunch more of them i'm gonna pluck these just to show you what they look like this uh yeah there's two of them here so look at that that is a freshie all right beautiful and you can see the gills here they kind of run down they don't stop in a particular spot so they're called d current that means they run down the length of the stipe so this is what the golden chanterelle looks like and it's got that wavy margin and it's got those veins with the d current veins this is what a cross section of a cantharellus formosus looks like or a golden chanterelle very solid white in the center this is a whole mushroom right here and you can see those the current veins that run down the stipe and it's also got this really wavy margin the edge of the cap is very wavy looking and a distinct feature of the golden chanterelle is that it actually can peel a bit like string cheese that's one of the features of the stem of this mushroom is that it peels like string cheese it doesn't break if you try to break one of these it just kind of bends and it shreds it comes off in all these shreds so that is indicative of a golden chanterelle this right here is the cantharella subobitus the white chanterelle and it looks a lot like a golden chanterelle it's got the d current veins running down the stipe it's got the wavy margin on the cap there's your white chantral one thing you should understand is that a chanterelle is a mycorrhizal mushroom that means that this mushroom associates with coniferous trees here in the pacific northwest there are other species of chanterelles that grow across the country and out east they can grow with deciduous trees where here in the northwest it's always a coniferous tree it's going to be a fur tree or a hemlock tree i always find them in fur and hemlock forest they're going to be growing where there's a lot of moss on the ground where there's a lot of ferns and needle duff they love all that kind of stuff they don't like windy environments they don't like it too warm they don't like direct sunlight these mushrooms fruit best at about 55 to 60 degrees so right around september october perfect temperature and moisture levels right here in the puget sound to really start getting a good flush of chanterelles there's a species of chanterelles that notoriously grows in the summertime right in july you can find the cantharelis roseocanis and that is commonly known as the rainbow chanterelle but right now this time of year what's growing out here is the golden chanterelle which is cantharelis formosus and the white chanterelle which is cantharelis subobitus and the white chanterelle typically seems to come out earliest after the first rains in autumn is when i start to find white chanterelles and you can see them kind of peeking out from underneath the moss they tend to be a lot more contorted and they get a lot more like pine needle duff and stuff stuck in them sometimes they can get really stretched out and crack and break and they're just not as pretty looking as the golden chanterelles once in a while you'll find some really pretty white chanterelles and some people really love those so the golden chanterelle cantharella's formosus is gonna be popping up like crazy right now it's been about two weeks since the first heavy rains of the season that's just about perfect for these chanterelles they're gonna start to emerge out from the moss one thing i do is i get down and i look from all different angles as chanterelles come to maturity they get bigger then the margin that is the edge of the cap the very edge of the cap itself really starts to undulate it really starts to get wavy and they get really wavy margins it should be noted that there are a couple of look-alikes here in the forest of the pnw hydrophoropsis orienta or the false chantrell and that's kind of a tongue twister this mushroom looks a little bit like a chanterelle except for it's got an off orange color notice it also can have the current gills or veins running down the stem but these ones are forked it causes gastrointestinal upset in some people and so it should probably be avoided so this mushroom isn't necessarily going to hurt you but it's something to be aware of it's more prone to cause gastrointestinal distress than other mushrooms another one of the look-alikes here is known as the woolly or the scaly chanterelle and this is turbanillus floccosis and another identifying feature of the veins of this mushroom is they are also forked the cap is very vase shaped and can have these little torn off looking scales growing on it this is another one that can cause really bad gastric upset oomphalotus eludins or the jack-o-lantern mushroom is also another look-alike these are actually more of a poisonous mushroom again not probably going to kill you but will really make you sick so the jack-o'-lantern mushroom out east of the cascades is one to watch out for we don't have that here in the pnw so not too much to worry about there's also a strange mutation that can happen to chanterelles known as rose comb and rose comb is distortions or lumps and gross malformations that occur on the mushroom often the gills are present on the top leading to the name rose comb the cause of this is usually contamination of the substrate with oil diesel or distillate fumes if you're finding rose cone mushrooms out in the woods i don't know it's probably okay to eat but keep in mind that this mutation can often be caused by fossil fuels and contaminants in the soil right here we got another one in this one it's real firm oh it's two of them look how pretty those are beauties very pretty oh look there's another one [Music] pull them out another pretty one [Music] now one thing with mushrooms if you find one [Music] probably more because of the way the mycelium is is basically a big root system and they they fruit up right here this one's kind of hidden i mean literally under the slash pile [Music] and there's another pretty one so uh well you know gotta brush the pine needles off a little bit let's see [Music] beautiful good goldie oh there we are yellow golden chanterelles some people pluck chanterelles and some people cut chanterelles the national forestry service would ask that you cut them above ground level although i really don't think that it matters from a mycological standpoint all these goldens popping [Music] golden chanterelles a little dry they're amazing and they're big holy crap look at that they're everywhere score so these mushrooms will reproduce by means of a spore and that spore flies across the forest floor and wherever it lands it's going to make this mycelium the mycelium is going to hook up with a tree and then the mushroom is going to sprout out of that mycelium then more spores will take off into the air and it repeats this cycle over and over and over and during that cycle a lot of wildlife bugs and animals and insects like to eat those mushrooms as well as human beings so we are also a part of that circle of life let's just be respectful of the forest when we're picking them you don't need to pick every single mushroom that you see if there's a huge patch of them leave a few behind for the wildlife and the rule with the national park service also is that chanterelle should be a minimum of one inch around to pick them and i think that's just a good rule of thumb don't be greedy don't be out there picking every tiny little pin you know leave some for the squirrels let them grow up a little bit it might not be killing that particular mycelium but you're lessening the chances of spores creating a new mycelium farther away in the forest or even better yet in a forest that has been clear-cut and has finally grown to a age where chanterelles can start growing there again also where these stumps were cut i also like to take some leaf up and kind of stick it in those spots i just want to leave no sign that i was here there's a million different recipes for chanterelle online you can use them in place of any mushroom anywhere and they are delicious and they have a unique flavor to them maybe i'll do a cooking video about chanterelle soon right now that's not really the focus on this channel although i've done a couple of cooking videos and probably before too long there'll be a chanterelle video showing up on some way that i prepare them and i know there's some people out there who all they're thinking about right now is getting out and picking chanterelles so go to your nearest coniferous forest that is legal to be picking mushrooms in look up the guidelines for that there's going to be a video coming out really soon about how much you can pick and where you can pick and where it's legal and where it's illegal so make sure you know those things before you head out to go hunting for chanterelles so thank you for watching mushroom wonderland and tune back in next time for another video all about mushrooms peace out [Music] you

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Length: 13min 24sec (804 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 08 2021