July 30th, 2017
For the last 10 days I am pounding my trails looking primarily for chanterelles . There is no doubt that this mushroom is one of the most popular on the whole planet. It is wide spread, relatively common and near the top of list of edibles. It certainly ranks in the top three of my list. It is considered summer mushroom and fruits in the period when not many other mushrooms are around, before the bolete season starts. Although it is relatively easy to identify there is apparently every year some poisoning due to picking jack-o-lantern mushroom as chanterelle. Despite frequent rains and relatively pleasant weather the chanterelles did not show up in any great numbers. I did not find any big patches yet. Only some small clusters of 3-4 mushrooms. [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id="58" gal_title="chanterelle2_2017"] According to field guides and other sources chanterelle is supposed to be quite bug resistant. Unfortunately in my experience that is quite the opposite. My fin