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Hey Capfinders! 🌎

I've been chasing fruiting seasons across three continents, and my latest stop was the wind-carved beech forest of Patagonia. The giant boletes get all the attention there, but I turned up something far stranger — the Moonlit Chanterelle!

So, why "Moonlit"?

1. Colour: sliced open, the cap holds a pale silver-blue that lingers for hours before it fades. Nature's own enamel work.
2. Harvest lore: foragers in the valley insist a cap must never be cut before the …

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Pulled this one out of a mossy stump on the north ridge just after sunrise — the gills caught the light like folded paper.