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   RustyHinge to tree   
   Re: Chanterelles very poor this year   
   24 Sep 13 21:10:02   
   
   From: rusty.hinge@foobar.girolle.co.uk   
      
   On 13/09/13 06:34, tree wrote:   
   > My reliable chanterelle patches are turning up just one or two or even   
   > nothing this year. By contrast the false chanterelles are abundant, as if to   
   > rub salt into the wound. There have been a few of ceps this year though. I   
   > was hopeful this year would be a good one for mushrooms as July was very hot   
   > and then we got a thundery downpour but then August was virtually devoid of   
   > rain. Worst of all there was a couple of weeks of wind which dried out the   
   > ground (this happened last year at the wrong time too). There's been some   
   > rain this week though and an autumn storm is promised for the weekend so   
   > there's still time for it to turn around. This is Scotland, BTW.   
      
   Do you mean Cantharellus infundibuloformis and ditto, var. lutescens, or   
   C.cibarius, which is properly a girolle?   
      
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