If you could get a picture of the full thing, golden chanterelles have a really unique trumpet shape that’s vaguely similar to oyster mushrooms. They should have gills running about halfway down the stem which you can easily pull off and a fruity smell.
If they are chanterelles, save a few of the largest. You can either cut them up and put them in a bucket of water with 4% sugar added or put them on a piece of paper for a few hours, collect the spores, and put those in a bucket with the sugar water. Leave the bucket to sit for a few days for the mycellium to start growing into a liquid culture, then you can pour the contents of the bucket around trees that it associates with, in this case hardwoods and pine/birch. Your trees will be healthier and the mushrooms should start fruiting there within a couple years. I always expand the habitat of ectomycorrhizal fungi when picking them.
Are the yellow ones chanterelles? They don’t grow in my area or are very rare so I don’t have a good eye for them. Pic of underside would be cool.
Google thinks they are, I’m going to try and keep an eye on them and see if they get bigger. I’ll post more in a few days hopefully.
I think these are chantarelles too. Confirm by looking at the ridges under the hat, they are very identifiable.
Don’t get greedy, they are fleeting and tomorrow might be too late to harvest.
If they’re chanterelles they look about ready to pick, might go wormy on you if you wait much longer.
If you could get a picture of the full thing, golden chanterelles have a really unique trumpet shape that’s vaguely similar to oyster mushrooms. They should have gills running about halfway down the stem which you can easily pull off and a fruity smell.
If they are chanterelles, save a few of the largest. You can either cut them up and put them in a bucket of water with 4% sugar added or put them on a piece of paper for a few hours, collect the spores, and put those in a bucket with the sugar water. Leave the bucket to sit for a few days for the mycellium to start growing into a liquid culture, then you can pour the contents of the bucket around trees that it associates with, in this case hardwoods and pine/birch. Your trees will be healthier and the mushrooms should start fruiting there within a couple years. I always expand the habitat of ectomycorrhizal fungi when picking them.
Update: https://mander.xyz/post/34185448