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Hi folks! I added 2 mushrooms to the "MUSHROOM ID" folder under photos. I think one is a lobster mushroom and the other some kind of chantrelle. The ornagish...
Frank
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Aug 14, 2007
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I think they're all chanterelles. No lobster. Does the big one smell like apricots? The little ones look like cantherellus cinnabarinus. They're not hard to...
Carol
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Aug 14, 2007
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I agree. These photos appear to be of the two most common Chanterelles in NJ. Jack...
W. Jack Barnett
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Aug 14, 2007
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Well, if one of the two most common ones is cantherellus lateritius, I think you're right, too. Carol...
Carol
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Aug 14, 2007
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How about the fact the big one has no gills? Also, it does not smell like apricot....
Frank
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Aug 15, 2007
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They're cantherellus lateritius "smooth chanterelles" and apricot's a pretty subtle smell even at best anyway. Carol...
Carol Raine
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I agree with both Carols and Jack...these are both the most common chanterelles in New Jersey...the yellow one being Cantharellus lateritius, and the small...
Jim Barg
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Aug 15, 2007
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Gotcha on the file names. I did a spore print of the small red one and it was white. As far as the larger mushroom I thought was the lobster but Carol ID'd as...
Frank
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Aug 15, 2007
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... forget that not all fungi are gilled. Spores are produced in tubes and pores as well as on teeth. The puffballs produce spores internally and then expell...
Mike Rubin
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Aug 15, 2007
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I'm really hoping the new pics I added to the MUSHROOM ID folder under photos are chanterelles! I *think* they smell faintly fruity and they seem to be the...
Frank
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Aug 15, 2007
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In my excitement I forgot to mention that the small red ones in the bottom left of one of the photos was what we thought was the other common kind of...
Frank
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Aug 15, 2007
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Chanterelles like it damp. Sloping ground is more likely though they do grow on the flats. The closest poisonous look-alike is the Jack-O-Lantern (Omphalotus...
Carol Raine
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Aug 15, 2007
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No gills, but I'll look at them in the dark later. Do the Jack-o- lanterns usually glow or is that a rare characteristic? Think I should freeze these till I...
Frank
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Aug 16, 2007
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I don't consider the glowing to be reliable enough to use as a make or break identifying characteristic, but if they don't have gills, there's no reason to...
Carol Raine
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Aug 16, 2007
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Thanks Carol!...
Frank
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Aug 16, 2007
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Well... I fried 'em up in butter and ate half of a small one. Pretty mild, not nearly as interesting as a morel or one of those inky caps you can't eat if you...
Frank
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Aug 16, 2007
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Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the NJMYCO group: What is your favorite edible mushroom? o Morel o Chanterelle o Hen of the woods...
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I did the spore print on a microscope slide and took some photos under my scope. Even though you guys were sure it was in fact a smooth chanterelle that I...
Frank
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Aug 18, 2007
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Sounds like a plan, Frank. I prefer black trumpets myself....
Carol Raine
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Funny you should say that I think I found some black trumpets today. I'll post photos later or tomorrow....
Frank
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Aug 19, 2007
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Check out this article in the Sunday, August 19, 2007 Star-Ledger about our foray that's coming up on Sunday the 26th: ...
Jim Barg
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I uploaded 2 new ones in the MUSHROOM ID folder under Photos, I think the first is a black trumpet and the second I'm still looking up. The Ones I think are...
Frank
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Aug 20, 2007
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... isn't ... I think the second one is G. meruloides. Hard to say from the picture. Are the tubes underneath irregular? Was it growing near ash trees?...
Mike Rubin
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So you think the first is in fact a trumpet? Any look-alikes? As for the 2nd I too thought it might be an ash bolete after looking through a few guides. They...
Frank
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AH-HA! It's been driving me crazy trying to figure out what those drying trumpet-looking mushrooms smell like and I finally got it - Brie Cheese!...
Frank
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Aug 20, 2007
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... growing ... many ... alikes ... Yes, I think the first one is a trumpet; but I don't confirm ID's unless I have the mushroom in hand. It should be paper...
Mike Rubin
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Aug 20, 2007
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It yielded a white spore print, but I've read that there is no more disinction between the black trumpet and horn of plenty. If we can make it to Schiff this...
Frank
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Aug 21, 2007
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Since many of us don't quite remember the smell of moldy brie cheese, a lot of us describe the smell of black trumpets as "fruity", almost like apricots (much...
Jim Barg
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Aug 21, 2007
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Is the Blue Chanterelle the one that used to be called P. Multiplex? They look like black trumpets but I find the taste of Craterellus Fallax far superior....
Carol Raine
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Aug 21, 2007
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I haven't heard opinions on whether chantrelles and trumpets usually produce in the same patch year after year or in the same patch more than once in a season....
Frank
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Aug 22, 2007
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