While that’s strange in your case (aren’t chanterelles one of the guys you have to cook very thoroughly or they’re neuro/cardiotoxic?) they’ve been monitoring the air for particulate and haven’t found anything dangerous, but it wouldn’t hurt to shoot an email off to a funguy-ologist in the region to see if they think it has merit, and can contact the relevant authorities if that’s the case. Then you win the ego game if it turns out that’s what it was.
The ones I’m thinking of grow on the rot inside birch trees and are hard, not slimy, and very slow growing so You’re only supposed to sustainably take every 3rd one you come across. And if they’re on a different tree, not birch, that’s when the issues arise with toxicity. I am picturing it right now I just can’t think of the name.
While that’s strange in your case (aren’t chanterelles one of the guys you have to cook very thoroughly or they’re neuro/cardiotoxic?) they’ve been monitoring the air for particulate and haven’t found anything dangerous, but it wouldn’t hurt to shoot an email off to a funguy-ologist in the region to see if they think it has merit, and can contact the relevant authorities if that’s the case. Then you win the ego game if it turns out that’s what it was.
Nah, chanterelles aren’t poisonous. You may be thinking of G. esculenta which have to be parboiled several times for them to be edible.
The ones I’m thinking of grow on the rot inside birch trees and are hard, not slimy, and very slow growing so You’re only supposed to sustainably take every 3rd one you come across. And if they’re on a different tree, not birch, that’s when the issues arise with toxicity. I am picturing it right now I just can’t think of the name.
Ahh right. Then it’s probably one of the polypores, but there’s a looooot of them.