chanterelle aroma and beefsteak fungus

sarah64 · #1 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 06:22 AM

Hi guys
Jon and I went for a walk in some woods on Tuesday and Jon spotted a fresh beefsteak fungus on a tree, one of two he spotted on two different oak trees. Around the area where he found the first beefsteak I got a really strong aroma of Chanterelle but could find no trace of any in the leaf litter. The smell was lovely.

There was a nice mossy bank and the area looked right for Chanterelle. Do you think that there could have been some there and they had rotted away into the leaf litter or was my nose telling lies?

NickCantle · #2 (**permalink**) 06-11-2008, 12:24 PM

That aroma doesn't ring quite so nicely once they begin to decay

sarah64 · #3 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 07:11 AM

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That aroma doesn't ring quite so nicely once they begin to decay

Hmm, wonder what is was then... my perfume perhaps.

cybershot · #4 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 07:27 AM

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Hmm, wonder what is was then... my perfume perhaps.

Would that be D&G's "L'eau d'apricot"?

sarah64 · #5 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 07:58 AM

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Would that be D&G's "L'eau d'apricot"?

LOL, well it should have been shouldn't it David but alas...

cybershot · #6 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 08:04 AM

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LOL, well it should have been shouldn't it David but alas...

Earlier this season I was forced to carry a surprise harvest home cradled in my hands clutched to my chest and the fruity scent tormented me all the way.

sarah64 · #7 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 08:07 AM

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Earlier this season I was forced to carry a surprise harvest home cradled in my hands clutched to my chest and the fruity scent tormented me all the way.

Ooh you lucky thing, I haven't found didley squat this year... well only tiny dirty little things.

Perhaps I should get soem of that D&G perfume you suggested, do you think it will torment my hubby... LOL

cybershot · #8 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 08:34 AM

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Ooh you lucky thing, I haven't found didley squat this year... well only tiny dirty little things.

Perhaps I should get soem of that D&G perfume you suggested, do you think it will torment my hubby... LOL

It works for me

PeteS · #9 (**permalink**) 07-11-2008, 03:37 PM

Sarah, was it early in the morning? Many fungi tend to release their spores at night. I can rememebr reading somewhere about someone going out to a wood at night and shinning a torch at some Craterellus cornucopioides - apparently the spores showed up as a "mist" in the beam of light.

Last sping, and at the crack of dawn, I smelt St Georges before I could see them. In fact it took me 2 days to find them. They were tucked under a hedge and well hidden (only 3 examples), but the smell from these was quite noticeable.

Had a fantastic day today for edible fungi - I got over a basket full

:

Hydnum repandum (Hedgehog mushroom)
Cantharellus infundibuliformis (Winter Chanterelle) - lots
Lepista nuda (Wood Blewits)
Macrolepiota rhacoides (Shaggy Parasols)
Boletus badius (Bay Boletes)

It's been a good year for me!

sarah64 · #10 (**permalink**) 08-11-2008, 09:50 AM

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Originally Posted by PeteS

Sarah, was it early in the morning? Many fungi tend to release their spores at night. I can rememebr reading somewhere about someone going out to a wood at night and shinning a torch at some Craterellus cornucopioides - apparently the spores showed up as a "mist" in the beam of light.

Last sping, and at the crack of dawn, I smelt St Georges before I could see them. In fact it took me 2 days to find them. They were tucked under a hedge and well hidden (only 3 examples), but the smell from these was quite noticeable.

Had a fantastic day today for edible fungi - I got over a basket full

:

Hydnum repandum (Hedgehog mushroom)
Cantharellus infundibuliformis (Winter Chanterelle) - lots
Lepista nuda (Wood Blewits)
Macrolepiota rhacoides (Shaggy Parasols)
Boletus badius (Bay Boletes)

It's been a good year for me!

Hi Pete

I guess it was around 1 pm but it was most frustrating that I couldn't see anything as it must have been for you with the St Georges.

Wow you did have a good day didn't you.

We've found it a really strange year again this year like last year, just finding like 1 or 2 Bay Boletus and then nothing else. I'm quite perplexed by the whole thing as well as the fact that I can't get out anywhere often. I haven't even seen any Wood Blewitts yet and I've never found the Winter Chanterelle. I know they're hard to spot, I probably just haven't got the eye. Maybe if one comes along and smacks me in the nose, then I'll get the eye for them.

Let me know what else you find Pete.