Impressive harvest I collect all of those, too, and many other species (ceps, brittlegills, various boletes and milk caps, etc.). There are plenty of chanterelles here in Western Siberia, both in the boreal zone and in the forest-steppe belt, where they grow in birch copses, hidden among tall forbs. Hedgehogs are also pretty common in mixed coniferous forests, but are rarely as plentiful as chanterelles. There are matsutakes in Siberia, not many, but I am able to enjoy matsutake-gohan almost every year, and dry some to powder and use as seasoning. I am assuming yours are the North American species, Tricholoma magnivelare or T. murrilanum. Here, we have the real T. matsutake, which has been shown to be distributed throughout Eurasia, from Korea and Japan to Scandinavia (I even had a couple of Swedish experts come to our village a few years ago to sample local matsutakes). Overall, in my search for rare fungi, I come across way more edible mushrooms that I could ever process, so I just enjoy photographing them.
I also collect Fly Agarics, to make an arthritis remedy from them.

Tatiana ! In what area do you live ? write me in PM your e-mail address.

Nice pictures of the mushrooms.

Years back meet some German collectors that would have their dogs trained to pre-sniff the mushrooms, they went to the back-up calls on the collars( preGPS tracking) They air expressed their daily pickings back to restaurants back to Germany. They paid for their whole 6 month vacation over here with the money they made from that 6 weeks of picking. Locals called them " yellow pine mushrooms" probably chanterelles.
All I know is from a bad experience some pickers had and my uncle a Dr had to pump out the stomachs of a family after they had a dinner. Two people were hospitalized for a month after that. He had meet them blueberry picking by chance and warned them, so they knew where he lived...luckily...and one person only sipped the sauce that did not fall into a trance.

Do you have candy caps? (Lactarius rubidus)

When candy caps are dried they have an intense butterscotch odor and often are included in cookie or ice cream recipes as a flavoring. We get good money for them from chefs in the San Francisco area.

Very nice pics of your mushrooms Tatiana. We have a lot of mushrooms that I don't know well. I commercially pick about 8-9 species. Our Matsutakes are mostly exported to Japan and Korea. I have sold them for as much as $300/lb for #1 buttons. (Normal price is usually closer to $15-$20)

It looks like you have a very eager mushroom hunter there too! LOL

Yes, we have several species of candy caps, which are sometimes difficult to distinguish. We don't have a market for them, but maybe I could collect them and dry them, because I often find large patches of them in bogged areas. I collect another small milkcap species, Lactarius glyciosmus, for its smell - it contains gamma nonalactone and smells like Bounty bars.

Candy cap (rubidus) was the hardest mushroom for me to learn to identify from other look-likes of all the wild mushrooms.

Those small reddish-brown milkcaps are a very difficult group, even with microscopy. The best you can do is learn to distinguish a few key target species in your particular area. The same species in different environmental conditions, even in adjacent regions, often look very different (or what looks the same turns out to be a distinct species). I think most mycologists nowadays accept the fact that many finds are only identified down to the genus, or a to a complex of species at best, and quite a few finds are still nameless. We are at the stage now that when we study a group, we think of a specific epithet that would sound nice (usually involving a good-natured joke, or memories of a particular person or place), review our herbaria for appropriate under-identified finds, perform molecular analysis, which will almost always show that those questionable specimens with morphological discrepancies are genetically distinct from our best attempt at identification, and describe that collection as a new taxon...

Here is what I identified as L. lacunarum, but it is only tentative, because in Siberia, we have a mixture of "European" and "North American" taxa. there are just too few field mycologists here to deal with big complex groups of species autonomously, and the effect of the war on the perspectives of international scientific cooperation, which is crucial for such taxonomic and molecular phylogenetic studies of biodiversity, has been nothing short of catastrophic

Interesting. I ended up making definitive identification of L. rubidus in our area with the texture of the cap's surface. If it was rough like a dogs paw it was the right one. I tend to find it in great quantities in mid to late fall where there is logging disturbance from 15- 20 years earlier. Often growing right out of decaying stumps and downed trees.