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Those are not gills - those are ridges. Gills are different in quality from the cap of the mushroom - you can see a dividing line if you cut across them - they tear off fairly easily - they are thin - they stop at a more defined line at the stalk.

A Jack o' lantern mushroom has gills.

http://students.cis.uab.edu/Kitta/poisonous.html

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According to this link, they don’t actually glow in the dark as advertised either.

I’ve gathered chanterelles for years and have never found anything that was bad, when I first began I gathered some that looked just like chanterelles, and fortunately a cousin from the woods looked over my ‘catch’ and threw them out.

I don’t know what they were, but they had a spongiform underside much like the Bolete. Otherwise, they looked just like a chanterelle.

From what I know about the Jack O’Lantern - it grows out of tree stumps and in rotting wood, while Chanterelles do not. They do not grow in my region (Central Europe).

There is also the “False Chanterelle” which can cause stomach upset, although some regard it as edible.

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Here is an interesting mushroom story from a famous mycologist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVx9R7nNe4A

It’s a clip from a great documentary film, “Know Your Mushrooms”. Worth looking for!!!

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There is a French doctor who cured himself three times when he deliberately ate the deadliest mushroom known.

http://injectablevitaminc.com/images/Ch28.pdf

That is the cure, I was unable to find an article about the French doctor who deliberately ate deadly poisonous mushrooms on three occasions and then cured himself.
I read the original article in a non-English book on the subject.

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There is a French doctor who cured himself three times when he deliberately ate the deadliest mushroom known.

His name was Dr. Bastien.

The Bastien Treatment.

A French physician, Dr. P. Bastien, has developed a new treatment for Amanita poisoning. It has three parts:
(1) intravenous injections of 1 gram vitamin C twice a day;
(2) two capsules of nifuroxazide three times a day;
(3) two tablets of dihydrostreptomycin three times a day.
The treatment is supplemented by measures to control fluid and electrolyte balance, and by penicillin.

Bastien successfully treated 15 cases of A. phalloides poisoning between 1957 and 1969. In 1974 he ate 65 grams of A. phalloides and survived. In 1981 he ate 70 grams of A. phalloides and again successfully treated himself. It is reported that the Bastien treatment is now used throughout France, where it saves the lives of all those whose treatment has not been delayed until massive liver and kidney damage has occurred. This method should obviously be widely publicized and tested in North America.

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ping - see my previous post - though it might interest you.
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