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full screenSun and rain every second is a perfect recipe for a chanterelle summer. Archive image. Photo: Martina Holmberg / TT
It is already possible to find the gold of the forest in several places in the country. Alternations between sun and rain have made the chanterelles thrive.
Mushroom consultant Theresia Lückner advises on the best “hunting grounds”.
The chanterelle wants a lot of moisture and therefore needs rain. But too much rain causes them to rot. Therefore, they also need sun and heat to be able to come up.
Theresia Lückner is a mushroom consultant and lives in northern Bohuslän. She describes that chanterelle lovers have the mixed weather to thank for the fact that there is now a lot of mushroom.
– The weather that has been there now has been particularly favorable. And where I live, they’re starting to get a little bigger too, it’s great fun, she says.
Colloquially they are called summer chanterelles, but according to Theresia Lückner it is worth pointing out that there is no species called that.
– It is the same family that comes in summer and autumn, but they come at different times depending on whether it is favorable where they grow.
Whether it will be an extra good “mushroom year” this year is far too early to say, according to Theresia Lückner.
– That was the first thing I learned when I became a trained mushroom consultant: never promise anything, the living will see.
To find the chanterelle, there are specific places to look.
– My best tip for those who have started picking mushrooms is to check old tractor roads. In the grooves, they like to grow along the edges because there is often a lot of moisture there, says Theresia Lückner.
Other places where the mushroom consultant thinks you should look are by roadsides and near ditches. In the forest, you should keep an eye on uneven terrain such as in depressions or on heights where there is plenty of moisture but where the chanterelles do not have to stand with their feet in water.