PeteS
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Chanterelles everywhere.Got a huge load of Chanterelles today. Some big buggers too and almost too nice to pick, well, not that good! There were also many Hedgehog mushrooms but I left them for next time - having trouble eating what I have 
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Treacodactyl
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We found some patches last weekend, just enough for me to have a few but they were still quite small. I expect there's loads now but just a bit far away to go back.
Where do you find most of yours, in deep undergrowth or by the side of paths?
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judith
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It's been a great year for them here too - almost, but not quite, makes up for the lousy summer.
Lots dried for the winter too.
(TD: I find them mostly on sunny, mossy banks under oak trees)
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PeteS
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I find most of mine on the edge of paths. The edges of New Forest car parks can be good too. I think it's an example of 'shock' fruiting - where the mycelium (the part underground we don't tend to see) comes up against an object, can't grow any bigger and so feels under pressure to survive. When under such stress the only way of surviving is to fruit and release spores.
However, on the weekend I decided to take a walk in the middle of the Forest, somewhere I know well but where no-one else really goes. I have never found Chanterelles there but this year they were there too. Damp mossy spots are good and my best spot has been along and in a New Forest boundary ditch - you could follow the ditch picking Chanterelles.
They have a close association with trees, especially birch, and they occur in the same habitat as bilberries. I aften find them in clusters at the base of birch trees, but also Beech, Oak and very occasionally pine. Even found them at the base of holly.
This summer has been good for them, but I think last summer was even better. One thing that does worry me a bit - last summer was great for Chanterelles too - and we all know that last autumn was rubbish for fungi. Could we get a poor autumn again?
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mochyn
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We sometimes have a patch at the side of our top field but none there today. I'll have to send the old chap out on a longer forage...
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PeteS
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Pie dish of Chanterelles.
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mihto
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What are you trying to achieve? People going nuts with envy?  We are still at least two weeks away from the first chantarelles and the one baby caps mushroom I found last week, and left standing in anticipation of a nice meal, was gone today. At this point I can only look at your pictures and salivate. With plenty of rain in July and the warm weather coming this week I have great hopes, however. Thanks for the lovely pics 
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PeteS
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Yes, you are correct. I apologise. Won't do it again. However, every dog has it's day!
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mihto
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| PeteS wrote: | | Yes, you are correct. I appolgise. Won't do it again. However, every dog has it's day! |
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Treacodactyl
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| PeteS wrote: | I find most of mine on the edge of paths. The edges of New Forest car parks can be good too. I think it's an example of 'shock' fruiting - where the mycelium (the part underground we don't tend to see) comes up against an object, can't grow any bigger and so feels under pressure to survive. When under such stress the only way of surviving is to fruit and release spores.
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Very similar to the ones we've found. Mainly at the edges of paths near mossy banks. There's a mix of trees but plenty of birch about and I've often found them under rhododendrons although I think that's just a coincidence.
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PeteS
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Despite the very warm and dry weather I got another haul of Chanterelles at the weekend. I have found a very good spot for them, and one that is new to me this season.
Also got an even bigger haul of hedgehog mushrooms.
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bingo
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Hope it's not one of mine Pete  I've had no time this year.
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PeteS
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Hello Bingo,
As far as I know it's not one of yours! However, If I'd known that you weren't about I might have been tempted to pick at one of your spots Many Chanterelles had dried up with the recent warm/dry spell, but the ones that I recently found are in a damp and dark wood, the Chanterelles all being along and in boundary ditches.
One thing to note is that although there has been plently of Chanterelles there aren't as many as last season. I found Horns by now too but so far nothing. Is this a good sign? What was the summer of 2006 like? Can you remember?
I have been busy too, but I have to walk the dog which is a great excuse to go mushroom hunting. Work is a real pain. Can you g'us a job?
I still have some Chantelles left over from the weekend. If you want a few I can drop some round, although I am eating them fast
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bingo
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No need Pete I found a few this morning. Some had dried up but enough where fine, found some Oysters and a massive Cep (Knackered).
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vegplot
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| bingo wrote: | | No need Pete I found a few this morning. Some had dried up but enough where fine, found some Oysters and a massive Cep (Knackered). |
I love ceps. Have to be about the best tasting. They dry well.
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bingo
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Feel free to pick me spots if I'm not around Pete I really don't mind.
2006 was a dry summer.......I thought it was gonna be a crap Autumn all summer it was so dry and then it rained big time in September........it was really good for Ceps.
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PeteS
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| bingo wrote: | Feel free to pick me spots if I'm not around Pete I really don't mind.
2006 was a dry summer.......I thought it was gonna be a crap Autumn all summer it was so dry and then it rained big time in September........it was really good for Ceps. |
Thanks for this, however, I don't really need to as I have some good spots of my own, but if I do go out there and find anything I'll let you know.
Yes, 2006 was dry but I was not mushroom hunting then. I did not start until October 2006. I have a theory about dry summers being good for fungi, especially mycorrhizal fungi like Ceps. Other people have noticed this with Ceps too - i.e. they like a dry warm summer followed by a wet Autumn. Haven't got time to go into it now, but I believe it's a form of 'shock' or stress fruiting. We have all heard of cold shock but I think this is a sort of 'drought shock'. Where this leaves this year I do not know, but we've had an average summer (weather wise) so far so I predict an average Aurtumn for mushrooms. We shall see.
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