Even if you just started to learn the basics of mushroom activity, you probably already heard about the presence of so-called “false” mushrooms, which are often mistaken for real ones. Moreover, dangerous poisonous "analogues" can be found in almost any, even the most noble species.
Chanterelles are especially popular with mushroom pickers. They are equally good for any cooking method. Accordingly, you will probably be concerned about the question of how to distinguish false foxes from real ones. Below are a few tips from experienced mushroom pickers that will allow you to find only real species whose eating will be completely safe. Moreover, this “science” is completely accessible even for beginners, because the most important thing that you need here is attention.
To answer the question of how to distinguish false foxes from real ones, you should pay attention to the color, since the colors of the caps of the real mushroom and double will differ significantly. The shade of the false version is always too bright, which will look completely implausible, since the original is much paler. If you have a look with a bright orange color, then be sure to come upon a double, because the original fox has a pale yellow or light orange hat.
In addition, chanterelles false and real differ significantly from each other in size and shape. A real mushroom of this species is characterized by an irregular shape of the cap. In a young specimen, the apex may turn out to be slightly convex, and only with growth does it acquire funnel-shaped forms. Fake options have an almost flat hat half the size of the real ones.
There is another nuance, thanks to which it will be possible to recognize false foxes. How to distinguish original mushrooms from fakes, you can learn thanks to the shade of the spores, which in this instance will be yellow, while the double differs in a white shade of the leg.
As you know, not only people and forest animals like to eat mushrooms , but also worms. At the same time, the chanterelle is almost the only species in which they do not exist. If you want to learn how to distinguish false foxes from real ones, then be sure to look at the cut-off spores. Having noticed even traces of worminess, be sure that this is a false option.
It is worth paying attention also to the plates located under the hat. This will also tell you how to distinguish false foxes from real ones. In a real mushroom, the plates are thick and quite densely located, while they seem to smoothly pass into the leg, which can not be said about the "fake". And the flesh itself of a natural chanterelle is distinguished by its meatiness, when pressed on the hat, a red tint remains, while the double does not show any changes under mechanical action.
The last, but no less important point, which will allow you to distinguish the original from the fake, lies in the leg itself, or rather in its composition. In a double mushroom, it is hollow, which can not be said about a real specimen, suitable for food.