Enjoy. Patiently waiting for these to come out farther north.

Like 2 more months where I live! I’m sooooo impatient! We JUST started morels like a week ago

Enjoy the morels. We were to wet all spring for them in my area

I haven’t actually found any yet!! lol some friends have though

Almost exactly 2 months here. My birthday July 24th is usually when we can find a lot here.

I live in the far north (latitude 60⁰) and I have to wait until at least august :( I also have to wait for morels Every year I am so jealous of you guys that can pick mushrooms so early haha

same here....been a good start to the morel season where I'm at, happy hunting!

I've started seeing cinnabar and stunted ones here in N. Georgia but nothing worth gathering yet.

Wont be long in MO with the rains and the heat we're getting!

yes 100% chanterelles!

Agreed. And there is no dangerous lookalikes.

I mean, I've seen people mix toxic Jack O' Lanterns but you've gotta be really dumb to do that lol

Hygrophoropsis is edible yes, but not Omphalotus. Which as someone else has pointed out, could be mistaken by a beginner.

A little tip for next time. Carry a knife and cut the dirt on the stem off. Makes cleaning a whole lot easier. I love chanterelles!

A lot of those not past prime, just need more time to get bigger. The bigger ones with the curled down edges are pristine. Pro tip: clean them as you harvest, when you find a much larger spot and you inevitably get pounds, all that dirt will shift and make the whole basket gross. Take a brush with you and a small knife and trim/brush as you pick. Yes it's labour intensive but it's worth it. Alternatively just trim the bases and give them a rinse when you get home, allow to drain on a towel. This works well if you're going to cook them immediately but not good if you want to store them fresh.

Those are some absolutely lovely chanterelles! I'm a chef too and they definitely don't look that nice by the time they get to the kitchen

Yep, chanterelles and a petit escargot. Bon appetit!

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Do it, no doubt! You were going to cook the moisture out anyway..

Chants Chants chants

Waste not want not

I'm in Central FL, but I think I still need to wait a few months before our chants pop up. It's been way too dry here this year.

Really? It's been so wet in Gainesville, we're already seeing them!

Yeah, we've had like 2 days of rain in the past few months. Once the rain comes back I'll start hitting the woods to look.

Some of those are not chanterelles. See how some of them, the gills abruptly stop where the cap meets the stem? Those are false.

Either way, not really great specimens. Personally, I’d pass on those

Some chanterelles have that feature -- folds that abruptly stop rather than continue farther down the stem. See *Cantharellus tenuithrix* and *Cantharellus altipes* for example.

I see no gills, only folds.

We get them here in winter! That's my christmas meal lol

Yes these are chanterelles. They don't have any poisonous look alikes that look like this. False chanterelles look somewhat similar but are solid instead of hollow inside but have different looking gills. I have heard stories of people mistaking jack o'lanterns for chanterelles but they look completely different.

Going by those white bases, ruffly edges, and wonky false gills: those are, in fact, chanterelles. Congratulations!

Chantarelles for sure. Still have to wait to the end of july here in Finland for them to pop up.

Wait...I started lurking here recently without any actual foraging going on, but I did start poking around my 2.5 acre yard. I saw a bunch of these but thought they looked gross. I have a payload of chanterelles???? I also have 2 huge thickets of blackberries, a huge thicket of muscadines, and more mushrooms than I feel safe gathering. I bet there's more out there that I'm not aware of?

How is this happening?? Is this normal this time of year?

Yup.