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Are these really chanterelles in my front yard?!


Mags

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Could someone please help me with identification.

These
are from my front yard Seriously! I bought a house, moved in two weeks
ago, and voila, a giant chanterelle patch. It is quite magical. I want
to be absolutely sure, so help please? I took a tiny bite.

Here are some details:

  • They taste good, peppery.
  • I don't know about apricot smell. Maybe I don't have a very good nose.
  • They are growing under an oak and a beech in a mossy area next to a stream. Sounds like the right habitat, right?
  • They are scattered about under the tree, not growing on wood. Still good, right?
  • No gills.
  • Uniform
    color, though quite orange, like a bright orangey egg yolk from a
    healthy free range chicken, more what I would call orange than yellow.
    The color in the photos looks like a lighter yellow than they seem in
    real life.
  • I live in southeastern PA, specifically Malvern, PA. Nice rainy weather here. Steamy today.

Could
someone confirm this identification before I throw a few dozen of them
into a pot? I would probably go ahead and eat them, but my family is
skeptical. I did some mushroom hunting as a young kid, but I want to be
absolutely sure.

Follow this link for images...

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/zob4g6set1m58mp/AAB9t5Ai2DbVu8no5CvLwAHUa?dl=0

Posted

The photos definitely look like Cantharellus lateritius, the Smooth Chanterelle. Color seems pale, but the description provided clears up any doubt about the orange/yellow color. Probably just a little bit too much sunlight for capturing color in a photo. But in general, these photos are good.

Everything checks... appearance, habitat, color. Just to be sure, the internal flesh should be white... with maybe a yellow tinge near the surface. The poisonous Jack 'o Lantern has internal flesh with a uniformly marbled orange/whitish color, and grows in clusters of fairly large/robust mushrooms which have true gills.

The smoothness of the fertile undersurface of the Smooth Chanterelle develops into the ribbed/veined surface as seen in the photos. Lots of rainfall helps move this development along.

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