John Smalldridge Posted August 11, 2014 Report Share Posted August 11, 2014 Went to eat lunch and look to see if I saw any unusual mushrooms close to work and stumbled on my first black trumpets for the year. Completely unexpected and found under pines, a tree species that I have never found them under. These were very small and occurred in two small patches ( just establishing?) so I did not harvest them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dakotabob Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 That would be a great lunch break find. However if I found them, they would have ended up in an omelet the next morning. Nice find! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianf Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Excellent. It's so easy to find golden and cinnabar chanterelle around here.....but all of the other closely related species are nearly non-existant. I have not seen black trumpets in ages. I think I might have seen an ignicolor a little while ago, but it was still too small to be totally certain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianf Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Oh, and so close to work it'll be pretty easy to just go back in a grab them when you're ready, so it's not a lost opportunity yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastwx Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Nice find Brian. I'm lucky to have a small lake at work with 1+ mile walking trail and surrounding woods. Just recently I started taking a walk once or twice a week to help rehab my knee. I posted this on facebook yesterday. Within minutes of walking out the door, a nice patch of cinnibar chanterelles under pine. And, yes, they became breakfast this morning :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smalldridge Posted August 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Hey coastwx, I was the one that found the trumpets. Anyway, I went to my usual black trumpet spot after work and managed to find about a dozen or so nice trumpets, some more of the unidentified toothed mushrooms and the largest chanterelle I have ever found. The stem must have been as big as my pointer finger. So I did get a few eaters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cedric Posted August 12, 2014 Report Share Posted August 12, 2014 Very nice! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastwx Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 Hey coastwx, I was the one that found the trumpets. Anyway, I went to my usual black trumpet spot after work and managed to find about a dozen or so nice trumpets, some more of the unidentified toothed mushrooms and the largest chanterelle I have ever found. The stem must have been as big as my pointer finger. So I did get a few eaters. Sorry, John.. I don't know what happened there... maybe confused threads. The recent rains must have turned on the black trumpets. Found my first one last night.. a single not too old, but not young either. Followed that up by finding a good cluster at work earlier today. I was reading something about them yesterday that said they are one of the harder fungi to come across and some hunters have never found them. After today, I've very greatful. And wow.. the smell of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianf Posted August 13, 2014 Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 coast.....those cinnabars look *#*$($*#!!! excellent. i have never really found black trumpets......not in quantity and not worth eating. have you guys had cooler night temps down there in NC recently? i don't really go out too much if at all once hunting season starts. august is pretty much it for me. do the craterellus prefer cooler temps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smalldridge Posted August 13, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 13, 2014 We have had much milder temps than usual here and lots of recent rains. I'm not sure which condition turned them on but the conditions seem better for coastwx and I expect him to post some great black trumpet finds in the next weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coastwx Posted August 14, 2014 Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 We have had much milder temps than usual here and lots of recent rains. I'm not sure which condition turned them on but the conditions seem better for coastwx and I expect him to post some great black trumpet finds in the next weeks. Hey John... I just had to hit my main spot closer to home after work yesterday after finding the BT's at work. I look down on a sloped area under oaks and BT clusters scattered every 10 ft or so. I've been looking hard in this area for the last two weeks, but completely missed these. They were older than the ones earlier with only a few pieces good enough to keep, but I found my spot. If they were fresh, I'm positive 10-20 lb a flush would not be a problem. I suspect many have been missed because they are so so hard to spot. I found getting on the knees makes it much easier to locate. One thrilled guy here :-) I went ahead and dried all for later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Smalldridge Posted August 14, 2014 Author Report Share Posted August 14, 2014 Awesome, I knew when you got the right conditions and trained your eye to them, you were going to clean up on the black trumpets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave W Posted August 16, 2014 Report Share Posted August 16, 2014 I attended the NEMF foray in Brunswick ME a week ago, and spoke with several people from ME, MA, NH who said they have been harvesting large quantities of Black Trumpets this summer. One way to track down some spots may be to seek out oak-dominated woods where plenty of precip has occurred. Online precip maps are helpful. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianf Posted August 17, 2014 Report Share Posted August 17, 2014 That must have been a blast Dave. Folks from out east or up north? They make my finds in the summer look like nothing.......or so they say . I live directly in the center of the population belt from boston to concord. While we have lots of good stuff, we do not have the old growth and forest rot of the more outlying areas........not quite as diverse as the outlying areas of NE....but we're getting there! There are sections of "forest" where you can walk for miles without finding much of anything......unless you consider garbage a good find. Sooner or later we'll be moving up to Lebanon, NH. Where you can find mushrooms less than 100 feet from a shopping plaza. I'm not able to really devote entire days to mushroom hunts or long distance trips which is generally a bummer. Even during my month long vacation recently the longest single duration of time I could devote to mushrooming was about 3 hours. And now it's back to work! Only 120,000ish square feet left to build! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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