Australian native chanterelle - Cantharellus concinnus

[Zen Peddler]

here ya go - found today:

[waterboy 2.0]

excellent images Zen

[Zen Peddler]

Thanks mate.

[waterboy 2.0]

In my travels...

[Zen Peddler]

Nice - looks like pseudogills to me. I hear they are most common in tassie.

[naja naja]

Substrate? I have found suspect cantherellus on blue gum.

[waterboy 2.0]

For me was a mix of Eucalyptus amygdalina (Black peppermint) and woolley tea-tree. Growing out of mixed leaf litter of both.

Lol...real bastard of bush to get through, low light conditions with heavy litter conditions.

[Zen Peddler]

Sounds pretty similar to my locations - all have been half rings growing under messmate or grey gum with lots of those sheoak-looking shrubs around.

[mesq]

Are they tasty?? nice find

[Zen Peddler]

Not bad but less peppery than European and American ones.

[Darklight]

What's the defining feature of the Australian one? Spore print? Gill morphology? Any toxic lookalikes?

I see ones like this popping up in my yard every year, but am hesitant to eat them without an accurate ID

[Zen Peddler]

I guess just the puedogills that look like veins and van branch apart and rejoin. Smell of apricot and when ive found them they seem always in a semi circle around a host tree.

ive heard from an old guy that we have purple and pinkish ones that are very tasteless and yellow-orange like above which seem to me less flavoursome than the ones i tried in usa

[Zen Peddler]

Pseudo - sorry typo

[Darklight]

I've had the orange ones come up on woodchip piles here under shade, if I see them again I'll get a spore print. If they're safely edible, I'll give them a go

[Zen Peddler]

Well edibility seems untested according to online sources but the old guy from Emerald tells me he has been eating them for years and more recenlt I saw on the Emerald Victoria wikipedia page it states that 'mushroom hunters travel to Emerald to collect Chanterelles.'

Ive eaten them twice and suffered no ill effects, but then again Ive eaten Tricholoma terreum which according to one study may be poisonous and I slept awesomely after them every time

[Zen Peddler]

Ive only ever eaten chants once outside Australia and it was in a restaurant in North west USA. Tasted amazing up there but being chef prepared you cant really tell how much was the mushroom and how much was the chef's skill.The aussie ones were much more subtle.