Comment on Chanterelle update
magpie@mander.xyz 8 hours agoI am in central interior BC and my area is pretty dry most of the time but wet when chanterelles should be coming up. I have asked around and even the more experienced foragers have had no luck but to be fair the population is small and other mushroom hunters are hard to find. I have heard of them being found about 100-200km north of me so they probably do grow here but maybe aren’t as abundant as other places. I am still on the hunt for them, I am mostly whinging.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 6 hours ago
Gotcha, you may need to travel to wetter areas to find them. That’s how it is where I am (California). They mainly grow in the coastal mountains here.
But I think BC generally has more rain the California, right?
magpie@mander.xyz 6 hours ago
That’s the plan this year, get into some areas I don’t usually go and do it as frequently as possible. I am always checking iNat and MO to see if anyone posts Cantharellus in the region, even if people tend to be secretive about that sort of information.
Southern and coastal BC can get a lot of precipitation but a lot of the central/southern interior can be very arid, and I believe the Okanagan is a desert. Most of our rain typically falls in October/November.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 5 hours ago
Oh right I forgot about that one desert area. If that’s where you are then you will probably need to travel like I mentioned.
magpie@mander.xyz 5 hours ago
Thankfully, I am not, I can barely take the heat here.