You've got an uphill battle, as most of the tries at cultivation of this species are highly experimental, and to my knowledge is not being done commercially anywhere in the western world. I say the western world, because the orient is leaps and bounds ahead of us, and the language barriers are high enough that their cutting edge stuff doesn't really get over here too much. I've seen books in Chinese describing cultivation of all kinds of species that are known to be highly resistant to cultivation attempts. I had one of my professors trying to translate some of it for me, but our time was so limited that I never got anything worthwhile...
Anyway, I'm getting a bit off topic. Here are some references to start you off
Danell, E., et al., "Successful cultivation of the golden chanterelle," Nature, vol. 385, p. 303, Jan. 23, 1997.
"Flavorful Fungus Farmed for 1st Time in Oregon Chanterelle Mushrooms Grown in Greenhouses," San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 23, 1997, Final Edition, News Page Section A1.
Warrick, J., "Science Notebook: Agriculture: Recipe for Raising Mushrooms," The Washington Post, Final Edition, A Section, p. 2, vol. 120, Issue 53 (Jan. 97).
Danell, E., et al., First International Conference on Mycorrhizae, University of California at Berkeley, Aug., 1996, Abstract, pp. 39-40.
Eric Danell, "Cantharellus cibarius: Mycorrhiza Formation and Ecology," ACTA Universitatis Upsaliensis, Uppsala 1994, Doctoral dissertation.
Gardes, M., et al., "ITS primers with enhanced specificity for basidiomycetes--application to the identification of mycorrhizae and rusts," Molecular Ecology, vol. 2, pp. 113-118 (1993).
Jentschke, G., et al., "Culture of mycorrhizal tree seedlings under controlled conditions: Effects of nitrogen and aluminum," Physiol. Plant., 81:408-416 (1991).
Gardes, M., et al., "Identication of indigenous and introduced symbiotic fungi . . . and mitochondrial ribosomal DNA," Canadian Journal of Botany, vol. 69, No. 1, pp. 180-190 (1991).
Danell, E., et al., "Methods for Isolation of Cantharellus Species, and the Synthesis of Ectomycorrhizae with Pices Abies," Mycotaxon, vol. 38, pp. 141-148 (1990).
Dahlberg, A., et al., "Population structure and dynamics in Siullus bovinus as indicated by spatial distribution of fungal clones," New Phytol., 115:487-493 (1990).
Straatsma, G, et al., "Carboxylated Metabolic Intermediates . . . of the Mycorrhizal Mushroom Catharellus cibarius Fr.," J. Plant Physiol., vol. 125, pp. 377-381 (1986).
Nylund, J., et al., "Structure and Physiology of Ectomycorrhizae," New Phytol., 91:63-79 (1982).
Molina, R., et al., "Isolation, Maintenance, and Pure Culture . . . Fungi," Methods and Principles of Mycorrhizal Research, N.C. Schenck, Ed., American Phytopathological Society, St. Paul, MN, pp. 115-129 (1982).
Here's a paper on how they utilize nitrogen while growing in culture
http://www-mykopat.slu.se/Newwebsite/mycorrhiza/kantarellfiler/texter/nitrogen.pdf
Here's one of the better sites about them:
http://www-mykopat.slu.se/Newwebsite/mycorrhiza/kantarellfiler/texter/prod1.phtml
I would wager that if you contact Fungi perfecti (www.fungi.com) you will be able to purchase a culture of this species, but be aware, the prices run around $150 US, or more. Also it is in the US, and not Europe.
On the other hand, here is a list of people involved in Cantharellus research worldwide. Maybe if you find the right person at a university near you, they may give you a culture...
http://www-mykopat.slu.se/Newwebsite/mycorrhiza/kantarellfiler/texter/list.phtml
well, let us know when you've got them growin!
Light and Love,
JD
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Jeremy Davis
Educational Concerns for Hunger Organization, Inc.
Check out the ECHO mushroom blog page to see our lab, growing facility, and more-www.echotech.org/greta
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This post I am replying to is indeed a very old one. However, the accumulated know-how on the subject is really not that great (I admit to not having intensely studied the scientific literature on the subject). If anything worthwhile had come from the science sector no doubt it would by now have trickled down to the hands-on people. In any case, as a kid I was involved in some chanterelle picking expeditions somewhere in the middle of Europe and now as an adult I still indulge in C.cibarius picking expeditions somewhere in the middle of Canada.
The internet tells me that the European C.cibarius is getting over-picked and here, where I live now the efforts of pickers are also fairly intense.In my present home range the mycorrhiza association of these valued shroomlies appear to be only with jackpines of which we have it seems a million hectars.Unfortunately C. cibarius so far only grows in very small pockets of this jackpine forest. There is now, however,a small presence of chanterelles to be found in cutover, reforested areas of jackpine stands. Whether this small scattered presence of these valued shroomlies is due to deliberate spore scattering or accidental spread by forest harvesting machinery is hard o tell, however, I have no doubt it was/is one or the other, because birds, high winds or native people had a few thousand years to spread the spores since the last ice age. In any case transplanting them through their spores is slow business, but it is possible. For me it was a great thrill to come across some beautiful specimen of chanterelles while partridge hunting in early fall in an area supposedly devoid of them. Greetings, Waxsmith.
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