#cantherellus

[mushroomgay]

Epping Forest, London, UK, January 2024

Winter chanterelle (Cantherellus tubaeformis)

This was another surprising, slightly late in the season, find in January that went into my mushroom stew that night (I had been out searching for the in-season Velvet Shanks, but came up short).

These gorgeous fungi, like their summer counterparts, can be recognised by their beautiful vein-like folds (rather than true gills) under the cap. They are equally delicious, but less sweet.

[bio-child]

a nice chantie!

[microcosmicobservations]

Cantherellus sp. - 6/17 at Historic Yates Mill, North Carolina

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[bio-child]

White Chanterelles

[unusual-uraniidae]

A good friend gave me some colored pencils they weren’t using so I decided to test them on this sketch! Super happy with how it turned out, and I can’t wait till springtime to go hunting for these 😭 I’ll probably turn this into a foraging blog after that, or I may start a new blog. I’ll have to think about it 🤔

[bio-child]

[microcosmicobservations]

Cantharellus “cibarius”

7/15 at New River Gorge, WV

[moon-medicine]

Toxic chanterelle look-a-like on the left and real, delicious chanterelles on the right :)