@Fran IOM I can't take much credit for the chanterelle id as they are one of the easiest fungis to id. There is a false chanterelle which look very similar but whereas the ones you see in the picture (above and below) quite clearly are pale, creamy colour on the inside, the false one is orange all the way through. Difficult to describe the taste, more flavour, slightly nutty. I cook them very simply in butter and a little salt and pepper.
What a shame about your allergy bcpathome, do you still enjoy looking for them and then identifying them?
Thank you for the advice steephill, I'll remember that. It never ceases to amaze me how they change from one day to the next which makes them even more difficult to id sometimes.
I'm on the island of Mull at the moment and my first fungi forage this morning was quite productive. I also picked blackberries to have with icecream for my meal this evening. Not as many chanterelles as I found in this spot when I was here last year. Only found one cep but it will fry nicely with the chanterelles so enough for tea. Not sure what the other finds are but if someone can give me an id it would be appreciated please?
When I lived in Russia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe, I was amazed at the confidence with which locals went foraging for wild mushrooms. Whereas we were told growing up in New Zealand a flat "do not touch any fungus; it could kill you."
Family in France would go mushroom hunting regularly so I grew up thinking it was a normal thing to do. Butchers and pharmacists in the local village offer a fungi ID as standard, but as local had always hunted, knew all the stories, and passed down all the knowledge I suspect locals were fairly safe. We hunted girolle and I have happy memories of getting completely soaked in the forests of Orleans, muddy up to the neck, and, once back home, mushroom omelettes shared in triumph, when I was very small. I think all this kind of thing set up a life long longing for forests that is never sated while living in London.
You called pansyface? Still on Mull until tomorrow so been very busy ferreting about on beaches and woodlands. I've found fungi where I haven't found it before and none where I expected but the day before yesterday I found a huge patch of chanterelles. I picked the biggest ones but there were masses of tiny ones that I couldn't bring myself to pick.
Thank you for your 2 finds steephill. It's good to share finds and terrific pictures.
I found this one can you ID it please, I left my book at home.
I know that one very well but these ones were about 2in or so across and a definite conker brown colour with a creamy white ring around the outer edge of the top. The stem quite distinctive too.
I had a good forage this afternoon and I'll post my finds later but I've found this one that I thought they might be poisonous. I found two of them and first sight I thought they were young ceps but then quickly doubted that. The stems had an almost black lacy look to them and breaking one down the middle the 2 halves turned black. See pic. They look like a bolete of some sort. They are both immature and the larger cap is about one and a half ins across. I'm wondering if they are young brown birch boletes steephill? If they are then they aren't poisonous.
Id number 2 please anyone and then I'll show you my goodies from my little sortie today. I think this one is a juvenile one. The long stem is unusual and there is the remnants of a veil. A 2p placed for size.
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What a shame about your allergy bcpathome, do you still enjoy looking for them and then identifying them?
Thank you for the advice steephill, I'll remember that. It never ceases to amaze me how they change from one day to the next which makes them even more difficult to id sometimes.
Not as many chanterelles as I found in this spot when I was here last year. Only found one cep but it will fry nicely with the chanterelles so enough for tea.
Not sure what the other finds are but if someone can give me an id it would be appreciated please?
Still on Mull until tomorrow so been very busy ferreting about on beaches and woodlands.
I've found fungi where I haven't found it before and none where I expected but the day before yesterday I found a huge patch of chanterelles. I picked the biggest ones but there were masses of tiny ones that I couldn't bring myself to pick.
Thank you for your 2 finds steephill. It's good to share finds and terrific pictures.
I found this one can you ID it please, I left my book at home.
I had a good forage this afternoon and I'll post my finds later but I've found this one that I thought they might be poisonous. I found two of them and first sight I thought they were young ceps but then quickly doubted that.
The stems had an almost black lacy look to them and breaking one down the middle the 2 halves turned black. See pic. They look like a bolete of some sort. They are both immature and the larger cap is about one and a half ins across. I'm wondering if they are young brown birch boletes steephill? If they are then they aren't poisonous.