Talk:Cantharellus

"is a genus with many delicious and popular edible mushrooms" Delicious sounds like its from one person's point of view. Could we clear this up please?

Seems ok to me, but go ahead and rewrite, be bold :-) Jens Nielsen 20:26, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Well, they are reknowned for being delicacies, not in the same league as truffles but at least as popular as Boletus edulis I would have thought. Admittedly I have never eaten them meself............Cas Liber 00:33, 21 September 2006 (UTC)

Image

• This is a great image, and I wanted to know where they are actually Chanterelle. Does anyone know? NauticaShades 00:05, 22 October 2006 (UTC)

Based on the image, it's difficult to say. My first thought is that these mushrooms are not chanterelles, but I wouldn't bet on this.--81.242.185.102 21:10, 17 November 2006 (UTC)

I doubt it, having seen the dried chanterelles at Whole Foods today. They look like sliced Steinpilz to me. There are better depictions of dried chanterelle, I will try adding later. --$2966.174.79.235 23:40, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

Those are definitely not Chanterelles. If you look closely, you can see the cross section of a stalk and cap, and a large spongy pore mass in darker yellow-brown decending from the cap. Those features are pretty clearly diagnostic of the Boletus group (I forget the taxonomic category; I am an amateur mushroom hunter, not a mycologist), and the previous user is probably correct in identifying them as Steinpilz, or in American English parlance, Porcini or King Bolete.

These ARE chanterelles. I have been picking these for many many years in Europe and the US. These are just dried chanterelles, not fresh. Drying changes their color and their appearance significantly because most mushrooms contain an enormous amount of whater. Loosing their water usually brings their wight down close to 90% and their shape shrivles to a little nut-like object. D'Artagnol (talk) 23:05, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

Edibility

A student of mine found a reference to toxicity in chanterelles in "The Great Encyclopedia of Mushrooms" by Jean-Louis Lamaison & Jean-Marie Polese. They say that chanterelles have a small amount of amanitine (an amatoxin), but give no reference. A colleague of mine recalls that the original research leading to this finding was done in the 1960s--I'd really like to find an original reference. Can you help us find it?

Nemetona (talk) 01:20, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Merge with Chanterelle

This article should be merged with Chanterelle. No reason to have two articles with similar content for different spellings. --ShanRen (talk) 14:58, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

• Keep This article is about the genus, not a specific species. de Bivort 19:37, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
• Merge: "Chanterelle" does not indicate any one particular species of Cantharellus and having a separate article listed under the common name creates a redundant fork. Peter G Werner (talk) 20:38, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
  • Chantrelle almost always refers to 'Cantharellus cibarius" and sometimes refers to mushrooms in a different genus: 'Craterellus'. de Bivort 17:50, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• Keep: As Peter G Werner conveniently ignores, the "Chanterelle" article is about one particular species of Cantharellus. It would be well to rename the specific article with the specific binomial and then add separate articles for the other Cantharellus species. But, as D'Artagnol said, "who will do it?" — Jay L09 (talk) 16:11, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
• Keep per Debivort and Jay L09. --Skizzik^talk 20:08, 9 July 2009 (UTC)

I agree with MERGE but who will do it? D'Artagnol (talk) 23:08, 5 March 2009 (UTC)

I removed the merge-template now and clarified that the article Chanterelle is about the speices. Cantharellus cibarius already exist (as a redirect) so moving it needs help from an admin. --Skizzik^talk 13:37, 11 July 2009 (UTC)

I created articles for Cantharellus californicus, Cantharellus formosus, and Cantharellus subalbidus, all of which are referred to as "chanterelles" here in western North America and are popular wild edibles. I agree with the proposal to Keep Cantharellus as a genus-level article and move the article about C. cibarius to the page of the same binomial name. Chanterelle would then become a disambiguation for various species, including Craterellus, Gomphus floccosus, etc. False morel is an example of disambiguating a common name of multiple species of fungi. --BlueCanoe (talk) 01:00, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

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