Chanterelle & Jack O'Lantern - Mushroom ID

[@Jesterday31]

Adam, your videos are almost like crash courses, every second is jam packed with only the necessary information, and you do it with such ease. This is quality work!

[@peterguercio9504]

These videos are terrific. My 30 year old son has become a mushroom hunter recently. I sometimes walk with him during his searches for mushroom "honey holes" as he calls them. Edible or in-edible it is fun to look for them. He is trying to train his dog to find the edible ones, so far this is a no go. The dog is more interested in following the chipmunks and squirrels.

[@M0053yfate]

I would love to know if it ever worked out for him lol.

[@torrvest]

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[@flavianofloris4459]

Ahahahah I love your family ❤

[@funshinebear4822]

😂

[@odiousmelodious2410]

as a Texan who just moved to the NE, you are a lifesaver. We don't know much about foraging anything but pecans

[@Neznisgip]

When are you publishing a field guide? I would definitely purchase one.

[@GailMcmartin]

If you do I have 15k mushroom photos if you need any. Only problem I'm from western Canada.

[@mpaz48mo]

Me too.

[@savaiiheaven8143]

I love mushrooms and would like to learn more. In addition to watching channels like this one is there anything you guys would recommend to bolster my knowledge?

[@oldtownleroybrown]

should do region-specific books, there could be lots of overlap which would make parts of each book already done.

[@theclimbingchef]

@@GailMcmartin what part? I'm in southern Alberta, curious what guide you use

[@alexanderreichard9594]

I’m not a big fan of eating mushrooms myself, but I have some chanterelles growing under the oak trees in my front yard. This video has given me the confidence to harvest them for the people I know who DO want to cook with them!

[@rpersin4011]

how were they?

[@getin3949]

How refreshing to listen to a knowledgeable young person with a brain. An unusual phenomenon these days.

[@jimandheidiryan1992]

Thanks Adam. You helped me realize I found Jack-O-Lanterns. You're fun to watch. I can tell you are so passionate about mushrooms. Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@gabrielbennett6079]

If I found a guy wearing earrings and walking around the woods swinging a wicker basket, I'd scoop him up, take him home and put him on my shelf. Lol. You are too cute!

[@waltertomaszewski1083]

Gabriel Bennett You are too funny! 😀

[@travis7davidson]

Be weary of Gabriel Adam. We need you making videos, not on her witches shelf. Lol

[@globalfoodquest4160]

haha! like!

[@EdmundDesigns]

😂😂😂

[@TingTingalingy]

Now imagine a guy saying this about a woman.

[@Aaronaa4]

Thank you! I hunted over 15 pounds of chanterelles this weekend in Virginia. They were delicious in risotto, and I plan to eat them everyday and dry some for winter!

[@joelockwood8157]

I picked some in Devon, UK the other day and I too made a delicious risotto. I collected a one litre container full, but I wish I had 15 pounds worth!

[@utoobgavemecancer8635]

Don't dry..they get real tough. Saute and then freeze.

[@Stay_LA]

Where in VA?

[@steezydan8543]

@@utoobgavemecancer8635 If it's dry and hard you can always grind it into powder

[@jfrunn]

@@steezydan8543 They also lose the majority of their flavor when dried, I agree with the saute and freeze, in a vac bag t limit freezer burn.

[@freeyourmind4349]

This has got to be one of the best channels regarding mushrooms and habitat on youtube. Adam is so intelligent and easy to listen to. The passion just bleeds through the screen and after every video I am revamped with a new energy to get outside and enjoy our beautiful planet.

[@johnsomers8269]

Adam, you are a real " fun guy"! Thanks for your well documented mushroom information.

[@kellybest7386]

Hi Adam, I absolutely love your course. Today I found the most beautiful chicken of the woods, milky caps, chanterelles, old man of the woods. Absolutely delicioous and amazing!! Once again, thankyou so much for your amazing great courses.

[@EagleJim62]

In my opinion the difference between the two is pretty clear and you certainly touched on all of the differences. The first time I found a jack o lantern my first thought was that it was a chantrelle. Quickly it became apparent to me it wasn't. They are much larger, much more orange and a much larger cluster. Good job in explaining the differences. Thanks for these extremely informative videos.

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks for watching!

[@markhall7951]

Very helpful. I'm new to this, but I see a lot of Chanterelles in NE and I'm not always sure. This is the most helpful. See a lot of yellow/orange funnel shaped mushroom, growing individually. Mistrust often because I don't understand what a false gill is.

[@ruthnotestine6888]

Thanks for this! I feel confident that I can go pick Chanterelles and not make a gastric mistake.

[@derekbutts1782]

I see what u did there lol

[@reyankirstan6229]

Thank you! We found a bunch of scattered chanterelles today and your video helped us confirm the ID! Delicious treat for dinner!!!

[@davidlongest3078]

Your one of the best at mushrooms, very good, I’m 72 and been hunting them over65 yrs- enjoy your videos very much , keep up the good work 😝👌🏽

[@rodneycaupp5962]

I only have three years to catch up, I'm 69, so I hope I can sit down at you campfire some day... I am stone dumb about shrooms but I do use the medicinal varieties. I did cook a roast with some black morels once and it was among the best. I ate some false morels up in Michigan once, and as I over cooked and reached too high a temperature, the Hydrazine started blasting off in the skillet. These surely were the true False Morels, containing the chemical Hydrazine, also found in Rocket fuel. They are deadly, though you can eat them for years, ... then one day, THUD !

[@rustyshackleford3278]

What I like most about Learn Your Land is the focus on safety. Thanks to these detailed videos I have been able to stay in the kitchen, and out of the bathroom! Learn Your Land has given me the confidence to eat all of the culinary treasures nature provides.

[@LearnYourLand]

Glad you're finding these videos helpful!

[@hampshireoak]

Thank you, I think you just saved me from a nasty experience. Jack o Lanten is here in Southwest France. My mushroom books never warned of this Chanterelle look alike.

[@lindab.6245]

Adam, you are still one of the BEST if not THE BEST source of information for all things Mycological!! This video was so helpful for me. I wanted to find a good in-depth comparison of the Chanterelle and the JackO'Lantern mushrooms and Voila! here it is! Thank you so much!

[@pamelawannamaker242]

Thanks for this video Adam. I just brought home some jacck o lanterns with reishei and puffballs. We didn't know what they were but they smelled really good as far a mushrooms go. Our plan was to identify after bringing them home and you helped out tremendously with this video. Thank you.

[@dillonforman4910]

Dude thank you very much. I'm 32 and just learned about this miracle fungi. Never forged a mushroom before. Just stumbled on this video today to learn. Saw from 6 years ago, so i clicked on your page to see, and you have another great video from 3 hours ago! So thank you, I feel like I'm about to learn everything i need to know about foraging mushrooms while watching all of your videos.

[@ShellyAnn1a]

It has been a few years since I picked Chanterelles. Used to make a light gravy with them and serve it over rice. My brother ran a buying station over on the coast, the Pacific, were they are more prevalent. We also have a Chanterelle that has a spiky spore body, we call these Hedgehog mushrooms and generally fix them about the same as others. This little mushroom fetches a higher price the the regular Chanterelles, the biggest market for these and others is Japan We also have a mushroom that parasitizes other mushrooms, called the Lobster mushroom, the last one I found was nearly as large as volleyball. Buy the time they are ready to eat, they will have numerous worms growing in them, the bigger the mushroom the more of a chance to be able to get good worm free flesh. I have diced them into gravies, saute them butter, even french fried them. After watching your video, I think I am going to make trip over to the coast and pick me a small bucket full. for a dinner of rice and mushroom gravy. You are a bad influences, I am just shy my 70th, now I want to walk in the woods. I was in Japan in the 1970's and I ate my first Oregon grown mushrooms at a restaurant in Tokyo. //es//A Proud Honorable Disabled American Combat Veteran, 1967-1994, The Wild Lady in the Woods.

[@dcfromthev]

This is fast becoming my favorite channel! Excllent videos, one after another. Great work, and thank you for sharing all your knowledge and passion for nature!

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks!

[@rypaz87]

Long time mushroom eater (snacking on enoki and maitake right now), first time mushroom hunter... once this winter clears up. I can't say how glad I am I've found your channel, it's immensely informative. Good work, Adam.

[@lindab.6245]

Adam - I LOVE your energy, your enthusiasm and your super "smarts" for the mushrooms!! I just picked a bunch of Chanterelles in a forest in northwestern Oregon yesterday with my son (and it's mid-September). It was my first time, but he has picked them in the same spot for years. He may know about the Jack O'Lanterns but never mentioned them. Maybe it's because he has always picked in the same area for so long. It's so good to be informed about something that looks like Chanterelles that should be avoided. Keep sharing your mushroom knowledge and THANK YOU for these great videos!!

[@Meattrapper]

Great video - very detailed. I really appreciate your time and effort.

[@ladyofthewoods2448]

Your a good speaker/teacher and always smiling your videos are a pleasure to watch Definitely doing what your meant to do and helping us so much. This is info we all should know. Lost knowledge I feel

[@lookoutmountaingarockhunte1300]

I just found some jack-o'-lanterns growing on old piece of firewood next to my wood pile I was hoping it was edible most definitely not thank you for this video

[@boydstone7433]

We get chantrells out here in ORE in the fir @ hemlock forests. They seem to like ferns, oregon grape, and moss to grow in. Here is 2 tips if you find a big chanty stalk cut the stalk into 4 segments, go back there 2 weeks later and you will have 4 nice buttons growing on that stalk. Also if you don't know a area, get on a deer trail. The deer eat them and they will poop the spores out in their crap. Also if you find some look around because the spores sometimes float on the breeze. Look straight up and down the hill from a batch you just found. We have white ones too which I like better, probaly because I've ate so many yellow ones. Slightly different taste with whites.

[@f.demascio1857]

Excellent video again Adam. The differences between the two are so important to know, and your descriptions are superb.

[@70sfred1]

You are very well spoken and explain things very well. I appreciate showing the difference between the two, especially for a beginner like me!

[@sharizabriskie3752]

I have been an herbalist and wild-crafter for 20 years and have limited mushroom knowledge. This Winter/Spring/Summer I have harvested Chaga, Morels, Chicken of the Woods, Reishis and oysters with sound double checking (where I have had questions) from you and your videos! I think you and your lessons are fantastic! Thank You Very Much for sharing your knowledge! You Rock! Now, on to chantarelles!

[@johnsmalldridge6356]

Great video perfect for the season! Chanterelles are one of my favorites, reliable and easy to find, tastes great and easily identified.

[@LearnYourLand]

Agreed!

[@Sara-pw1dx]

Adam, Always great videos, with lots of useful info!!!! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I too ate the Jack-o-Lantern mushroom. I was mislead by a book called, "The Encyclopedia of Mushrooms". I have since thrown the book away, it had a photo of the Lack-o-lantern under the name "Amethyst Chanterelle". The mushroom I had was big bright brilliantly orange cluster of mushrooms, and it was exactly like your Jack-o-lantern mushroom in this video, joined at the base. Always, always keep some "Activated Charcoal" on hand. After eating some of the Jack-o-lantern mushroom, I found on the internet that it was a Jack-o-lantern and not a Chanterelle mushroom. I grabbed the Activated Charcoal and drank 2 large glasses of in over the course of the day, and was able to get through with minimal effects. Activate Charcoal is the first thing that they give for possible poisoning in the ER. I studied Activate Charcoal a few years back to understand all the hype there is about it, and was I glad! . . . . . . . . . . . . Yesterday, I found real Chanterelles, under an oak tree.

[@williamjones6053]

You did a great video ..very clear voice to ..thanks for to your video I have found a honey hole of chanterelles ..and finally tried some yesterday ate several cooked down with a gravy with no I'll effects thanks to your careful explaining

[@leenaright3949]

I have jack-o-lantern mushrooms growing in a large group at the base of a large oak tree in my side yard. Beautiful, and yes ..when there is no moon above, they glow with a soft green color.

[@OakGill]

Found a large patch this morning, and used this vid for great identification. Thanks for what you do.

[@scottkers.4225]

Hi Adam, I just wanted to say thank you for sharing this video. Great information on identification. Thanks again.

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks Scott!

[@michaelprue9024]

Thank you Adam. Great information for anyone who actively looks for these delicacies every season. Personally I only pick morels and have been for decades. They are what I grew up with and know. However, I have been wanting to find a nice bag of chanterelles and have looked for them in the past. I have yet to find any. But, now armed with more information about them, I feel a little more confident that if I do get lucky enough to find some, I will be able to identify the correct mushroom. Thank you.

[@themasterofnone3324]

I'm a first year mushroom hunter in west central pa. your videos are very informative and have helped me i.d most of the mushrooms I've found

[@evan-oliver228]

I'm up in canada and searched for this information and youtoube gave me this rendom video weeks later! THIS IS PERFECT! Thank you for taking the time to share this!

[@suzannebrown4999]

An awesome video to help distinguish between Chants & Jack's!! Thanks again, Adam!! I have found chants on my hikes this week.. and they were delish!!

[@annbungay1247]

You are the best. Such informed knowledge delivered in a cool and easy style. Just love your vids Adam. Learning all the time. Thank you.

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks, Ann! I appreciate that.

[@davidm3210]

They are all over in MO now, you're enthusiasm is great!

[@elisajulia6727]

You're so knowledgeable and explain these perfectly! Thanks so much!

[@EmmEff72]

Your channel is wonderful. I picked a gallon bag of cinnabars growing under pines needles. Also found three different yellow chanterelle species in the same location.

[@garycywinski9440]

Really well presented. Another way to identify Omphalatus is to look at the gills in Pitch Black. They're slightly phosphorescent.

[@traininggrounds9450]

The mycorrhizal point was the most important for identification. That is a fundamentally different classification when one is growing from soil and the other grows from wood, even if it might appear growing from the soil. That helps a lot in understanding the character of each mushroom. Soil based mushrooms are performing a fundamentally different role than decomposition which is what any mushroom growing from wood would be doing. I don't know what all the soil based mushrooms do but I'm glad to start learning here and get this distinction.

[@constitutiongoing]

I just gathered a lot of them, they have been dried. I found them in a pine forrest. near a pond. Im trying to learn how to not confuse jackolanterns with them. I also have lots of the red chanterelles.. Im hoping to find amanita muscaria soon

[@leonard.knight]

I followed your video and found chanterelles on a local trail near Oakridge, TN today. Awesome!

[@leonardovillalba881]

I watched this video way tooo late , I was riding my dirt bike in the mountains today and I saw a big cluster of what I thought it was Chantellere mushrooms and when I got home I made a big pot of pasta with creamy mushrooms sauce I ate them all !! Thanks for the video fella

[@cliffordbradford8910]

Found jacks for the first time this weekend and I can see how they could be confused. The patch I found was under a live oak tree and some were growing at the base (large cluster) but others were growing in smaller clusters away from the tree. TBH if you found smaller clusters when they were fairly young (therefore around the size of chanterelles) you could confuse them pretty easily. Having harvested a lot of chants here are the things I noticed: 1) size: they are way bigger than chants. The biggest chant I've ever picked might be 2 inches across - most are less than an inch - while some of the jacks I saw were easily 6 inches. 2) Clustering: Chants might be clusters of 2, rarely 3. Adam is saying 4-5 to cover his ass but I've hardly if ever seen that. The jacks on the other hand cluster like honey mushrooms 3) gills: jacks have "real" gills where the texture is different from the cap. 9:24 shows what I mean. 4) smell: Chants smell fruity like apricots or peaches. Jacks have that generic mushroom smell. 5) inside color: Jack 9:24 vs Chant 9:21

[@greggroppoli7882]

Adam, is there any risk with closely smelling toxic mushrooms? I'm wondering about inhaling spores or broken gill material. From Minnesota, thanks for sharing your knowledge!

[@balzonurchin]

Good question, but in all my years of foraging, I have never heard of any issues in regards to sniffing mushrooms. I can't see there being any risk in it considering the miniscule, microscopic amount being ingested. I've personally sniffed all sorts of poisonous species, including death caps and destroying angels, with no ill effects.

[@larryeddings3185]

Good information. I harvested a nice bunch of chanterelle mushrooms this afternoon. Thanks for sharing.

[@paparomesoutdoors711]

your the man, you know your information beyond a normal mushroom hunter, you put in time, effort and detail to your great high quality videos. Im in the Catskills of NY so we are close and all your mushrooms are ones I hunt or find around my parts. Love the channel. Thanks for the videos.

[@bruceglover2713]

Why does this remind me of me? Almost looks like me?I've had limited success with cultivating a mycelium. With the symbiotic relationship of Doug fir.Works like a kidney. Converts lignins(complex carbs?) into a starch/sugar that the tree can utilize.Anyhow,the soil compensation matters also. Long story short, my favorite wild food and thank you for a wonderful walk around.

[@mrbassman7184]

The chanterelle is the wild mushroom literally everyone is familiar with here in the Nordic countries. :-) However, I don't think the Jack O'Lanterns are found here at all, and there's no other close look-alike either making these chanterelles a very safe choice to pick here. I'd add that another typical characteristic of the chanterelles is the fibrous structure, enabling you to rip a section of the mushroom the entire way from the top to the bottom (or the other way around). Our golden chanterelles here do generally have more pronounced gills that actually look more like those of the jack o'lanterns in your video, but they're still an integral part of the body (like for all chanterelles) and cannot separated from that. The best thing with the chanterelles (next to the delicious taste) is that they very, very rarely are attacked (eaten) by insects as most other mushrooms often are. Strange that the one you sliced (9:16) seems to be rather badly attacked, or are those internal cavities caused by something else...?

[@TheLordbal]

we have smooth chanterelles growing wild on about an acre on our property under our pecan trees, we love them. we are lucky ;)

[@kbkesq]

Very helpful. Found a ton of chanterelles yesterday in my friend’s “secret spot” in California and wanted to make sure they really are chanterelles.

[@notmyworld44]

Young man, you know your stuff and you cover all the fine details. I and my young daughter accidentally ate some Jack-o-Lanterns once thinking they were chanterelles before I knew the difference. They didn't harm either one of us, but I credit that to God's protection. However, having learned the difference years ago, I would never do that again. Thank you for your excellent videos.

[@iamthewaughrus]

Wow! You're a captivating and informative teacher. Thank you for sharing this!

[@jayyoung5423]

Good job Adam..as a new forager I studied jack o lantern and. Chanterelles exclusively.. happy to report that I know the difference and have many great meals of chanterelles...thanks, good stuff as always.

[@Vbluevital]

What a great comprehensive lecture.

[@LearnYourLand]

Thanks!

[@lienmai1277]

Thank You Adam for sharing your interesting and richly resourceful knowledge about so many wonderful things grow from the woodland!

[@LearnYourLand]

Thank you for watching!

[@mountainflowerfarmvermont1870]

Great Chanterelle & Black Trumpet videos! Any plans for a short vid covering cinnabars and yellow foots? Thank you for these enthusiastic and informative videos.

[@matgyvr]

Very knowledgeable and well spoken.

[@elpidioespinoza302]

This was on my recommend. Crazy story. About two weeks ago I thought of the same thing didn't have a positive ID. I didn't eat Jack'o, but I did notice one thing about it after I broke a piece of the cluster. It definitely smells edible like something you buy at your local market after a few hour it started glowing in the dark.

[@tomhickie8691]

you are a good presenter and teacher

[@Pierrericheart]

Best video on the two differences. Thanks

[@introductiontophotography]

Thank you. Very informative. I am in search of Jack O'Lanterns to photograph at night (glowing) and this helps a lot. You are very knowledgeable and have a friendly accessible delivery.

[@adymode]

Hey just one more thing about the Jack O'Lanterns, on a dark night - they glow !

[@moose11vt]

I have read that myself. Especially the underside.

[@sorryyournameistaken6880]

Will they glow after you've picked them, if you were to try w 1 in a dark room after picking? Or do they only glow when they are still attached? Does this vary if it's more dried out than others when you pick it?

[@adymode]

@@sorryyournameistaken6880 They should fade within minutes of picking - mind they are deadly poisonous. In general they should never be picked.

[@johnthornton4266]

They are bioluminescent

[@globalfoodquest4160]

YES!!

[@brittanyneal5943]

Thanks for the info! I found some chanterelles, and now am confident they are indeed chanterelles because of the string cheese base and the fruity smell (distinctly apricoty!) yahooo!

[@Caro.Arevalo]

Thank you!

[@arnoldfiebig9776]

One of your best videos. Informative and detailed. Thanks.

[@henrymostert2125]

Thank you for that really detailed instructional video. This is extremely helpful. Great work on the video

[@aceofbastone]

What conditions encourage these to grow over other edible mushrooms?

[@andrewgourd8486]

How does anyone know way more than you? You're so knowledgeable and energetic. Thank you for your videos, really enjoying them from Oklahoma.

[@johnp.turner2000]

I just wanted to say thank you for your very informative and detailed instruction videos. I'm impressed with your attention to detail. I am 65 years old and only now beginning to think about searching for mushrooms. I live in Southern Brazil and I have noticed mushrooms here and there and I have decided to investigate Foraging for mushrooms and other wild edible plants. Again thank you

[@jjheartscows]

I learn so much from your videos! Thanks for all the education. Is there a guide like you for the west coast/PNW? Any recommendations? Thanks.

[@suriyamonton]

We also have them in Thailand especially in a more elevated areas where there are pine trees... In pine forest

[@mariacrimi4184]

Saved from a miserable evening. Thank you.

[@bobplantz7300]

Youre the best Adam! Youve tought me so much. Ive found a lot of Chants this year and I love them... Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge!

[@MrGaryflyangler1]

One of the best mushroom videos I've seen. Thanks for the info.

[@brakaner2703]

One of the most informative videos seen so far. Thank you very Sir. Great video, hope you post more!!!

[@davidmjacobson]

Really helpful video. Got a little concerned at seeing a patch of 3-4 chanterelles that maybe I had misidentified. Great to know this happens from time to time

[@TarotMuriel]

Wissahickon Valley Park is popping with chanterelles Cinnabar right now in the Lavender Trail

[@MycologyVet]

I found 75 chanterelles yesterday with my wife! They are so delicious! Almost like calamari but retain a fruity flavor when you freeze them.

[@maryfeigen7715]

You are awesome. I picked a whole basket of jack o lanterns thinking they were chanterelles. Finally looked at the gills - I was so disappointed.

[@MrNope-oo9nh]

Went out and foraged for my first time, positively ID’d some beautiful red chanterelles! I’m currently drying them and plan on storing them until I figure out what to do with them.

[@billmonczka7197]

I found a mushroom near a chanterelle. Deep orange with a vase shape. Stem is hollow with actual viens running to the stem. About 4 inches across. Any clue? Found nothing on field guides about it. Thanks love your channel

[@jonathanobrien-os9xq]

Hi Adam,I'm a forager up here in Rhode island and we here have alot of the same fungi you expose'..the omphalotus illudens does glow in the dark but very faintly..one time 20 years ago I was in a camping weekend came across a dead stand that was infested with the jack o lantern mycelium..the whole tree was glowing pretty bright too..took some wood from it home misted it watched it glow for about a week till it faded away..damn wish I had pictures of it,but no cell phones back then..lolol.

[@lewiscleveland4661]

Thank you, I have these pumpkin orange growing at the base of rotting oak stumps I was planning to eat but now I don't think so.

[@VanOutloud]

TY Very informative content. I live in Florida. There are not many experts that are sharing experience down here. The ones showing foraging videos are not experts.

[@lisabooker6405]

I can’t imagine anyone knowing much more than you do about mushrooms! I’m sure your kindness and humility won’t allow you to agree but, WOW! Just WOW! You truly amaze me with your knowledge and more so with your teaching skills. You are truly an amazing young man and I’m grateful for your time and help. All the best and happy hunting ~Lisa

[@MJCain-ye1uo]

Thank you for all the good information. Really appreciated!!

[@blakesteel9209]

Thanks Adan another great video ! I picked my first Chanterelle mushrooms this year! Didn't see any Jack-o-Lanterns as I picked to compare. .

[@roningamin1391]

Hi from Canada. I love your fungi videos. This video is particularly important because I found today August 28th, possibly a huge patch of chanterelles But I'm so nervous to harvest them. How can I send you photos of fungi I've found? Sincerely outdoorDS

[@melodyferris6828]

Thank you! You helped me identify mushrooms growing in our backyard within minutes, and feel confident about determining the difference very quickly in the future. We didn’t have edible Chanterelles, so I’m very glad I confirmed!!

[@lovegeorgian]

Thanks! I got lost a little in the woods and found a patch of chantrelles!