nettie
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Chanties or falsies??Please can you 'shroomy people help? I've never seen chanties before so really am unable to tell if these are the real thing or not...am also hampered by a snotty nose and therefore no sense of smell!! The big mouldy old mushroom in the photo had a very wet soggy stem hence it being brown, all the others were yellow. Not sure if the colour is right in the pics, in real life they were ranging from yellow to the colour of free range egg yolks. They were found in mixed deciduous woodland and also under pine.
Thank you!
Edited to add: Ooo-er I don't seem to have an icon to upload photos???
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nettie
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Stewy
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Not I would say, tear one in half as a true Chanterelle should be white on the inside.
Having another look I would definitely say not.
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nettie
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I am having terrible trouble uploading pics.
Trying again
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nettie
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It's no good, nothing happens when i press the "upload file" button. i had problems before, that first one was a fluke!
Stewy, the flesh is sort of yellowish inside so you must be right. Shame, cos there are loads of them about.
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Stewy
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Here's some Chanterelles.
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nettie
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Thanks Stewy, that's much clearer.
Obviously mine aren't then! Shame...
Here goes, hopefully tech probs resolved.....
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cab
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Nope, don't look like chanterelles. Shame.
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slippery Jack
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So has anyone any idea what they might be ?
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bubble
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Yes they are False chanterelles,Hygrophoropsis aurantiaca.They can give nasty tummy upsets etc.
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dpack
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as above
snotty noses exempt but the simplest way to get a positive id is the apricot smell to chantrelles
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Stewy
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| dpack wrote: | as above
snotty noses exempt but the simplest way to get a positive id is the apricot smell to chantrelles |
Not if you don't know what apricots smell like though........... 
I have found hundreds of them and have never quite gotten the apricot smell and I do know what apricots smell like. Perhaps I have a poor sense of smell but I dont't think I do.
Trying to think of the mushroom that is supposed to smell of mouse pee, how on earth would one know what mouse pee smells like??Lol
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Treacodactyl
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I think it can be down to your own sense of smell, I find the apricot smell is quite strong when I pick 'em but other's can't smell much from the same ones.
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dpack
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oh well some of us can work on smell ,i often find them that way ,recon good id books like jordan can id most with visual clues if sniffily lacking
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fungi2bwith
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I think I have a reasonable sense of smell. I have often smelt mushrooms before seeing them. But chanterelles never smell of apricots to me!
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dpack
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ph.d anyone?
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PeteS
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I find that false chanterelles smell of apricots too!
Yes, I can sometimes smell mushrooms before I see them, especially early in the morning and when there is little wind. St George's are an example of this. And when picking a big cluster of honey fungus the smell/spores were so string that it made me sneeze!
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