Found a few mushrooms yesterday, going to try and find Beaverpeeler’s chanterelle spot tomorrow.




wws

Those are the high priced ones, right?

Used to be, you used to have to pack a gun to pick them. I talked to a buyer and #1’s are only going for $7 a pound now. Back in the 80’s or early 90’s they were hundreds of dollars a pound.

wws

Made pizza with wild mushrooms, excellent pizza. Wood fired oven.





wws

Too blasted dry here in my neck of the woods for much of a fall mushroom harvest. We got a good drink yesterday and into last night,,, but it was the first significant rain in about a month and a half.

These grow in pretty dry ground. I’m going tomorrow to find some other kinds towards the coast. Have a bunch drying now.

wws

I love the smell of matsutakes. I see a couple of #1's (buttons) in there. Most of those would be 4's and 5's. Maybe 50 cents to dollar a lb.

methyl cinnamate and a drop of 1-octen-3-ol. You can buy both in perfumery supply stores, mix and put a dab on one of those little tree car freshener things.

Replace methyl cinnamate with dimethyl sulfide and you get tuber smell, more or less.

Yep, for me Matustakes smell like a mix of cinnamon with a touch of garlic.

Sure fire elk attractant too.

Your level of knowledge of all things fungi always impresses me.

Keith

For your convenience I drew you a map of that windy road that leads to my secret chanterelle patch.

That should be easy to follow.

It's a Pinus. Matsutakes love pinuses.

Carl I just left an air tag in your truck when we went to the fur sale together. I have all the spots now.

wws

Sometimes I wish Trapperman had "Like" buttons.

Keith

It's a Pinus. Matsutakes love pinuses.






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In my experience that Pinus would be waaaay too small for Matsutakes. They like 'em big!
BTW, Tatiana...do you know if the proper taxonomic pronunciation is "pie-nus" or "pea-nus"?