Identifying Your Chanterelles
3.1
Trumpet Chanterelle
Craterellus tubaeformis
Frequency
Plentiful
Habitat
Among mosses, in humid environments and in association with conifers, mainly Black Spruce and Tamarack (rarely on dry lands), from the end of August to snow. Abundant in peatlands of the boreal forest where the quantities are calculated in tonnes.
Fruit body
Very small chanterelle weighing around 3 g; It was therefore necessary to pick more than 300 to make one kg; its great abundance allows up to one kg to be picked per hour.
2 to 7 cm in diameter X 3-6 cm in height.
Cap
Yellowish brown to blackish brown. Umbilical, this umbilicus descends rapidly to the base of the stipe to form a hollow stipe.
Margin
Wavy and irregular margin mhen mature.
Hymenium surface
Lamelliform folds, forked, spaced, decurrent, very pale gray to gray, to purplish gray.
Stalk
4-10 X 0.3-1 cm. Yellow, even, hollow; you can blow in it like in a straw.
Flesh
Thin, gray, yellowish to brownish in the cap, gray to yellowish in the stipe.
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For commercial crops, quality verification should be done in the field and only quality fruitbodies should be picked.
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