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[Closed] Chanterelle id please.

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Please tell me they are.Found under Beech


 
Posted : 30/08/2020 8:46 pm
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If you’re having to ask... 🧐
Looks mostly right but there are a few odd shapes in there could just be the photo, and one in the centre of the photo side on looks very like a false chanterelle - the cap edge and the gills don’t extend down the leg like you’d expect. Don’t eat that one.
Hard to say definitively, as said if you’re having to ask put the lot in the compost. Better safe than sorry.


 
Posted : 30/08/2020 9:21 pm
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I wouldn't like to say on the basis of that pic.
You want ridges not gills, scrape the stem and its lighter inside, a smell of apricot- which i've never got and you'd be finding them in birch (mainly) woodland.
In addition i'd say that i'm no expert- and more than one expert has died, so careful now!


 
Posted : 30/08/2020 9:23 pm
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If you don't know, don't eat.


 
Posted : 30/08/2020 9:56 pm
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The key with chanterelles is that the ridges run down the stem. Looks like there's a mix in your photo.


 
Posted : 30/08/2020 10:30 pm
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Had a local expert confirm that they were all Chanterelles. Cooked up the lot with bacon, garlic and onions and made an omlette, deeelicious.


 
Posted : 31/08/2020 10:47 am
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They all look good to me and AIUI false chanterelle isn't really dangerous anyway.


 
Posted : 31/08/2020 12:25 pm
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The ridges/gills on the underside of the cap shouldnt be straight lines like you would expect, more like river tributaries linking in to other ones. The gills are also a bit thicker on chanterelles than on the fake ones


 
Posted : 31/08/2020 3:43 pm

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