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Fans of "mushroom hunting" appreciate chanterelles not only for their excellent taste, but also for the fact that there are no signs of worminess and insect damage in their pulp. All this is due to the substance chitinmannose, which has the ability to destroy helminths and their eggs.

Many people like to collect chanterelles, because they grow in large colonies. If you find several pieces in front of you, look around, look under fallen leaves or moss. From one glade, you can collect 2-3 buckets of these delicious fruit bodies. But novice mushroom pickers are concerned about the question: are chanterelles poisonous?

Are there false chanterelles and how poisonous are they?

In nature, there are representatives of an inedible species, which are called false chanterelles, they can be poisoned. In addition, the situation may be aggravated by the individual intolerance to fungi by the human body. Then another question arises: poisonous false chanterelles or not, and if so, how much?

First you need to figure out what real chanterelles look like, so that even an inexperienced mushroom picker can distinguish an edible product from an inedible one. Real chanterelles usually grow in mixed and coniferous forests, starting in mid-summer and ending in October. Mushrooms have an orange-yellow hue with a characteristic pleasant pulp aroma. The caps are funnel-shaped with wavy edges and plates that go down almost to the middle of the stem.

False chanterelles are not poisonous, although you can get poisoning from them. It is usually mild, but does not bode well for your body.

However, a danger to humans can still be posed by poisonous mushrooms, similar to chanterelles, which are called orange talkers. It is them that some mushroom pickers confuse with a real chanterelle growing in the same forests.

How to distinguish chanterelles from poisonous mushrooms, so as not to harm yourself and your loved ones with serious poisoning? There are several factors that help to correctly recognize inedible chanterelles:

• false chanterelles never grow in large groups, like real species;
• orange talkers grow on rotting or old trees, and edible species only on the ground;
• inedible chanterelles have an unpleasant odor, and real ones smell like peaches or apricots;
• the caps of false mushrooms have a regular rounded shape with smooth edges, and real chanterelles are funnel-shaped with wavy edges.

We offer you to see a photo of poisonous chanterelles, clearly showing their main differences from edible mushrooms:

If you nevertheless poisoned yourself with false chanterelles, do not worry, this does not pose a danger to a person. With the right treatment, the patient recovers quickly and easily.

How else can you tell the difference between poisonous chanterelles and edible mushrooms?

How else can you distinguish between poisonous and edible chanterelles and improve your mushroom picking experience?

• Poisonous chanterelles have smaller caps, not reaching 6 cm in diameter;
• the plates are thin, often repetitive and do not pass into the stem of the fungus, as in the real ones;
• pressing on a poisonous mushroom, its shade does not change at all, unlike real mushrooms;
• the smell and taste of the pulp of false chanterelles is very unpleasant compared to edible ones.

There is also another type of false chanterelle - is it poisonous? We are talking about the gray chanterelle, which is inferior in taste to the edible species. The shape of the cap and legs of the gray chanterelle strongly resembles the real one, however, it has a brown or gray tint, which makes the fruit body unattractive to mushroom pickers.

It is worth saying that in many reference books, the poisonous chanterelle is considered a conditionally edible mushroom.Many mushroom pickers collect these species, although they are of lower quality than real chanterelles. But if you prepare them correctly: soak them well for 2-3 days, boil them for 20 minutes with salt and spices, then poisoning can be avoided. But still, experts recommend not to eat these mushrooms, especially if there are problems with the digestive system. In the presence of harmful toxins, these chanterelles can be poisonous. People with sensitivity to these substances show the first signs of poisoning: nausea, vomiting, dizziness, abdominal pain and diarrhea. When the first symptoms appear, you need to immediately call an ambulance, because the preservation of human health will depend on your reaction.

Knowing that there are no deadly poisonous chanterelles on the territory of our country, you can safely go to the nearest forest in search of real edible red beauties. However, this is only possible if you do not collect chanterelles in the areas of industrial and chemical plants, as well as near highways.