This was extremely helpful. First time I watched it I began to doubt my ID skills. You managed to find false chanterelles that seemed more similar than most sites I'd looked at. 2nd time watching and I feel much more confident. Thanks!

Dude, you passed on SO much info with this video. Thank you. Explained things in detail very well. Especially appreciated the spore print section

Absolutely the best ID of the Chanterelle I've seen yet!! Awesome job, thanks!

Contrary to the comments of other viewers i believe you are welcome to make your videos as long as you wish. You are entirely correct, the whole thing is the point! This is by far the most helpful guide on identifying the two, with beautiful 1080p50 HD resolution to tell the gills from ridges. An outstanding post, especially enjoyed the spore print.

Thank you very much. This is exactly what I needed.

Thank you so much, you saved me from a bad stomach ache. I was so excited to find bright orange mushrooms in the forest beside the lake where I was kayaking. I picked a bunch thinking I was about to have a feast. After watching your video, I realized I had picked the false chanterelle. Mine were not bitter as explained on another site, but they had all the characteristics of a false chanterelle. Thanks, I plan on sleeping well tonight.

Thank you for the detailed description of each mushroom.

Thank you very much. All information helps to narrow down identification . Well described. Look forward to other Shroom Law.

Thanks, mate! Trekked through the Gainesville Botanical Gardens today with my wife, deep into the forest paths, and I spotted what looked like dozens of chanterelles on either side of the paths. I was not armed with the knowledge you gave me in this video at the time, so I had to leave them be. They're going for $25 per pound here in Georgia, USA, and I have a bunch from the farmers market in the refrigerator for tomorrow, but I would have loved a couple more pounds of them for mushroom tarts with Madeira sauce.

I thought your video was really good - you particularly took time to cover every concern that a virgin forager has! Well done you! Loved it

Very informative video. I'm a beginner to collecting fungi so the detail in your presentation is very useful so please ignore those that tell you to shorten your videos. There is only one other UK based you tuber that I've found who gives me the most confidence to identify fungi. I also really enjoy your other mushroom videos. Thanks for making them and keep making more.

Thanks. I found many Chanterelle mushrooms in the woods on the Isle of Mull and this video helped me identify them. I washed them thoroughly then cooked them with garlic & olive oil on my camping stove. Delicious.

Very informative, very useful indeed. Thank you for sharing your knowledge, please do more mushroom hunting/mushroom identification videos.

Thank you. I picked false chanterelle last year thinking they were the real thing - helps a lot

Thank you. Enjoyed this video.

Great vid mate... picked a load of false today.. will be trying a different woodland soon.

OM gosh, this video was so incredibly helpful! Your descriptions are very detailed making it so much easier to identify the real from the fake. I was surprised at how I was easily able to identify the real one from the fake one. I now feel much more confident. Thank you!!

This video was very helpful! Thanks

Thanks ! Really helps!

Well done sir I know it didn't turn out like you had hoped by thank you so much for the effort!

Thank you so much for this video! It was really helpful

i picked about a good few chanterelles today and decided to throw them away because i was so uncertain if i had actually picked this great mushroom. This video was very helpful in determining. the caps skin and textures are quite different.

Superb, thank you!

Good video. I just found real chantrel, I usually find false chantrel here. Spore prints have saved my life, I found a huge flush of medow mushrooms, took them home to dry then for storage, I took 4 out of each bag to spore print,, 5 grocery bags full,, 4 mushrooms from 2 bags printed as deadly angel of death mushrooms, they were in amoung the medow mushrooms and I grabbed them, I threw out all the mushrooms I'd collected. Spore prints have saved my life.

Thank you, very helpful

Thanks very much. Useful video

Thanks Ashley, I picked what I thought was Chanterelle but they were false Chanterelle. Saved myself side effects. Please do more videos. Many thanks

very informative. Thanks.

some really good info ... very knowledgeable mate

One thing to keep in mind, chanterelles always grow near trees they form a symbiotic relationship with, they are mycorrihizal. Oak, maple, poplar, birch - hardwoods. Part of the reason you want to get your chanterelles with the stems and not cut them off too high to the crown is to see how the gills grow from the stem upward. Chanterelles gills are fused to the stem and it's as if they are part of the stem where false chanterelles often times have a define line where stem is smooth then gills grow from right under the grown upward. I find chanterelles one of the easiest to figure out with the gills. If you can move the gills back and forth with a knife or finger, they seem flimsy and delicate or easily fall part, if you can see a clear separation from stem to gills, and the color is slightly orange (though not always) then you are most likely looking at a false chanterelle. 3rd is color because chanterelles come in shades from white to deep yellows (no difference in flavors) but gills you can never be wrong with and they should always have smooth tops, no skin flakes or cracked skin on top unless it's a very very old one and at that point it will be bug infested. 4th, notice chanterelles tend to be meaty and and thicker caps than false chanterelles though wooly chanterelle can be ridiculously meaty but have a messy top with flakes. Chanterelles usually grow in downward sloping rows from each other and at best 2-3 together only yet you will always see more in a nearby area, but never in larger clusters fused together at their base and never in deep red colors. Here's a link to how wooly Chanterelle (false chanterelle) looks like as I ran into these first in the season (fall 2021) and if it wasn't for the weird flakes on top of the crown, orangy color and a larger than normal cluster of them plus much bigger than typical size in June (early in the season without much rain), I could've been fooled that it was a chanterelle. You will notice it just doesn't look inviting to be picked, as you look at it, unlike a real chanterelle that's smooth and looks buttery: www.zoology.ubc.ca/~biodiv/mushroom/T_floccosus.html Another false chanterelle Hygrophorosis aurantiaca (wulfen) Maire: Ashely has mentioned is here (more info) www.first-nature.com/fungi/hygrophoropsis-aurantiaca.php and notice the clean separation of gills on the stem which is not that typical on real chanterelles, rounder, thinner cap and larger more defined gills + deeper orange color. Stems tend to also be taller and thinner where real chanterelles: www.first-nature.com/fungi/hygrophoropsis-aurantiaca.php

Very good video from what looks like a well informed specialist ☺️👍

The two different features I notice is the chanterelles have symmetrical gills that are parallel and the false they go every which way. The surface texture is finer on the chanterelle.

👍Chanterelle vs. False chanterelle...now this is a very good educational video...he doesn't rush through and there's Question and answer which is good 👍🧚‍♀️🍄🕊

Thanks so much for providing this information, you're awesome. We've been harvesting them for years in Mendocino, but never shared what we knew. It's kinda inspired me. Can you do one on black trumpets?

Sorry if I missed it but did this video address the smell? Do false chanterelles have the same apricot like smell of the true chanterelle?

Well explained, thanks!

You da best!

Helpful, thank you!

Super!

thank u for this vid!

i didn't watch your whole video, but every time i see a shady chanterelle i do a sniff test, and it always gives me the typical woody apricot smell. Does the false one have this smell?

Awesome!

Chanterelle do not have gills btw they are wrinkles

Your video really helped me identify the chanterelles I have blooming in my dooryard near an old pecan tree. They were there last year, around the same time and the same spot but I had just moved house and wasn't sure and didn't want to risk getting ill. Your video does a much better job explaining how to identify, your specimen examples are better than other videos. Thank you!

Brillant!!

Great deatail and good closeups

Oregon is having a great crop of chanterelles this year, just picked all we could carry out. I have also occasionally found false ones, which I have also occasionally eaten. I had no ill effects, although, taste and texture were somewhat inferior to the true chanterelles. We also saw a lot of other edibles like coral, russulas, lobster, meadow, etc. My nose is always my final judge, (on chanterelles) as they have a delicious apricot type fragrance. Picked some nice shaggy parasols about a week ago, they are also a choice edible, but never come up in the quantity that chanterelles do. I'm making some sauces to can as I write this....YUM ! Happy hunting!

Thank you! So helpful?

So, i've been watching other vids and It seems there's some confusions out there between the differences in false chanterelles and jack o lanterns. Essentially the others vids were claiming that the true gill, grows out of trees variety was the false chanterelle and the grows in the ground, has bifrucated gills is the jack o lantern. Would you mind clearing this up for me?

Hey guy, greetings from Norway. Great video, I like the close-ups and the low-paciness thorough explaining. Did you ever try eating the false chantarelles? How is the taste compared?

good video, very interesting. I have found chanterelles in scotland (trossachs area) around july. I was wondering if i would still find them at this time of year ? mid september ? thanks a lot

Hey nice video! Found a bunch of kantarell today delicious! If you want tips that I can give some honest opinion? Don`t critize yourself, keep it short, a few minutes. you can maybe show both mushrooms all the time when you talk or fade in some clips when you start explaining? Some clips on where you found them? Like the tactics: better something on as nothing. Overall good info. Thanks for the effort.

The white ring around the cap on the underside can be a give away too

I have a small spruce woods near me absolutely full of jack o lanterns in the UK, didnt know they were so rare

Thank you for this!! How can I spread the spores so more will grow in my area?

Thanks Ashley

Very interesting and helpful. BTW the reason for Luciferase etc is not necessarily a reference to the devil, but to bio-luminescence as Lucifer if derived from the biblical hebrew meaning "shining one" or "light bearer" referring to Lucifer's special status as an angel before his fall.

Thank you. Would you say the false chanterelles do not have the fruity "apricot" scent? Here in Vermont, some of the what I believe are true chanterelles have quite thin folds that appear like somewhat like gills, but still have the other traits such as the lovely fruity aroma.

Duboise who named the Enzyme/protein family's of Luciferase and Luciferin did so, not for the devil of the church. But because of Lucifer being 'The Bringer of Light', which fits quite nicely for glowing aminals and shrooms.

This helped a lot.

10:14 I got the right one, probably mostly the rot spots etc. Best way to tell them apart imo though is to touch them, they just feel completely different.

While lucifer is the name of the devil, and the church has given rise to some strange names in the past (potatoes were once known as the devils apples), keep in mind that it also means light carrier, and that the suffix -ase implies that the name refers to an enzyme, meaning it could never have been named in medieval times, since enzymes weren't discovered until the early 20th century by Eduard Buchner. So In this context the name luciferase might simply be an indication of the fact that it refers to an enzyme involved with the production of light, by (as you explained) acting on luciferin. Great video btw, very informative!

How do mushroom foragers avoid cross contamination when cutting mushrooms? If you use a knife to cut a poisonous mushroom then discard it but then cut another mushroom that you keep and eat is there not a danger of eating a small amount of toxins? Also what do you do about the odd poisonous mushroom hiding in amongst the edible one? Do mushrooms never grow that way?

Nice video! Haha, do you also have a cat called Cosmo? :D Me too. meow

Is the false one still edible? Or is this video to make sure you don't eat the false one?

I've eaten false Chanterelles 2 days in a row, cooked. They were very good, no health issues whatsoever. Smelled very nice too, that's what first got me to trust them Nice informative video, thanks for sharing! Spore prints on black paper?

Thanks for making this video! I picked what I thought were real chanterelles, but after viewing your video, I determined they were certainly fake. Dodged a gastric mess for sure!! Haha

Hi ! Are you still hunting mushrooms? I'm in south Georgia as well. I want to start collecting, learn how to dry them for projects and decor. Please respond.

I love chantrells, they grow all over louisiana and are delicious. :)

is so easy a cave man can do it, hehehe but thanks for the priceless info👍

10:15 oh I can, you underestimate my eye for mushroom identification. The chanterelle is on the left.

there's a few reports ao hallucinations but... I don't care about that.

to make reference to yuor comment on the false chanterelle being edible, i,ve either eaten the genuine or false im unsure, but 4 days later im perfectly fine. No intestinal discomfort and quite a tasty mushroom indeed.

Interesting thanks. Would love to get out there and see if I can tell the difference in the woods. I'd describe the true chanterelle as tumeric in colour and the false seems to be more of a kind of peachy colour. That makes it reasonably clear when side by side. Not sure if it would be as easy in different lighting when you only have one specimen. The gill difference makes it easier to know though too. Good that the jack o lantern is so easy to ID in comparison due to its internal orange colour.

What happens if you eat false chanterelle??

Lucifer translates to the light berer, so it makes sense.

I would say that a Chanterelle has ridges not gills.

Lucifer means lucem ferre from "lux ferous" in latin this is lucifers name of beauty before falling lux meaning light and ferrous is iron. the literal translationis lux(light) ferous(bearer or bringer) God named lucifer bearer or bringer of light. He was bright and beautiful. He was a cherubim not an angle though he may take on the appearance of an angel of light. Any how. it is aptly named as it bears the light in the form of luminescence.

So, false Chantelle is poisonous?

These look much too similar for me to be comfortable eatting them.

I have never ever heard of poisoning from false chantarelles, and in swedish litterature they aren't concidered as poisonous, but just as worthless as a food source as they are said to be very bland :)

I am not an expert but I've collected Chanterelles all my life and I honestly believe that this is not accurate. The first Chanterelles in the video were just few days older and on more sunny spot than the other. I might be wrong but that is my opinion.

SO, JACK O LANTERN DEADLY POISONOUS, BUT, FALSE CHANTERELLE NOT POISONOUS?

They still look identical to me.

I'm chaga

I like your vids yet just a lesson on 'Lucifer'... is not some sort of weird 'Church hate'... but means 'Light bearer'... Luminous... etc.

These are pretty easy to tell apart. The simplest way to tell is look at the "gills". False chanterelles have actual bifurcated gills whereas chanterelles have false gills that often don't even completely go from the edge of the cap to down the stem. I know you essentially said this, but I was saying this is the way to identify which you have in my opinion.

False shrimp trout 🤣

0:05 It's Jesus!

good stuff!

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If only I could understand that brand of spoken ENGLISH.

gills bad barely gills good!

Get to the point. You're talking to much. Keep it short!!!!