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good job Fro - persistence definitely pays off. It is funny you mention the call of nature assist - It has often been the case with my hunting. Perhaps the lesson in that is that we should try to be more aware, look at as many angles, etc. When I am hiking through the woods I look far, then near and back and forth. When I pass an area I look back.After loads of hiking and blank trips I finally managed to find my first decent haul of fungi. Spent most of the day walking around a wood in swansea, covering loads of ground, only to find these in a very small patch under some young oak trees (the entire wood is oak). Spent ages looking for them, and it wasn't until I'd unzipped to answer the call of nature that I realized I was about to urinate on a promising little patch of chantrelles. Got a few hedgehog mushrooms as well (tasty but not as nice as chantrelles). Apart from the small patch where I found the chantrelles the entire wood was devoid of them, any theories on why this might be?
Is it a case of conditions in that patch being perfect and the rest of the wood being less suitable?
or is it just a case of it maybe being early/late in the season and the rest of the wood having already/not fruited yet?
There hasn't been much rainfall recently up until this week, which could be the cause.
When do the chantrelles generally stop popping up?
Any advice about harvesting? e.g is it better for the fungus if you cut the stem before picking, or if you just pull the whole fruiting body out?
Probably a good idea when collecting volumes, as shown above but if you are unsure which what type of fungus/mushroom you are dealing with, some books recommend taking the entire "fruit" to aid identification (along with a spore test). [Remember to collect with a basket tho', so that spores have a chance to drop back to earth where you are collecting - to allow for future growth.]...
I was always told it's better to cut them at the base as you don't harm the mycelium underground as you can do if you pull the whole thing up.
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'Mr Evans was struggling with £65,000 of debt when the actor/director Robert Redford bought the film rights for his unfinished debut novel, The Horse Whisperer, for £3 million in 1995. When the adaptation, starring Redford and Kristin Scott-Thomas, was released three years later, it received Golden Globe nominations for best drama and best director. The success of the film also boosted the book, which sold 15 million copies around the world. ' - The Times
'Michael Jordan, from the Association of British Fungus Groups, a mushroom conservation charity, said it was likely that Mr Evans and his family had mistaken Cortinarius speciosissimus for chanterelles. “This species grows in similar locations and can look similar to edible chanterelles,” he said. Mr Jordan said the mushroom was extremely toxic. “If people are in a decent state physically and you get them on to dialysis fast enough it is possible to survive, but there have been a smattering of cases across Europe where it was lethal. The liver is broken down into a pulp,” he said.' - The Times article, link above.
'Nick picked around a pound of the nut-brown fungi. But crucially, his basket was not actually filled with Boletus edulis, as ceps are officially known. Nick had unwittingly harvested a similar species, Cortinarius speciosissimus – or deadly webcap as they are commonly known, with good reason.' - The Mail
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